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BSA officials last month invited controversial City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries to speak--an event which provoked a 450-person protest.
The BSA's invitation of Jeffries and of other speakers espousing a more Afrocentric viewpoint has strained the group's relations with other campus organizations, notably Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel.
For instance, Jeffries has been called anti-Semitic for making statement's alleging that Jews financed the slave trade. In his February speech, Jeffries claimed that most of his controversial comments have been taken out of context of misquoted.
Later, during the question and answer period, Black Law Students Association member David Strick-land criticized Fried's use of Jeffries as "an exemplar."
"[Jeffries] does not necessarily represent all Black candidates," said Strickland, one of the panelists.