Word: jeffriesism
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Like most people on this campus, I feel quite strongly that racist or anti-Semitic leaders like Leonard Jeffries and David Duke pose a danger to society. But I worry about the distortions and the inflammatory rhetoric that have been used against him. It seems that these can only play...
1. The article says "the spectators in the orchestra section--exclusively members of the BSA and other sponsoring organizations--cheered Jeffries' views met applause, endorsement and approval from most-if not all--of the `sun people" in the orchestra." The article creates a false impression by failing to mention that...
Galper and Katz also should have noticed that the clapping was much attenuated over certain of the more controversial points in Jeffries' speech. There was loud applause from whites and Blacks for some points, some applause primarily form Blacks for other points (like when he called Harvard a "citadel of...
Galper and Katz make it sound as if most Black students in Sanders Theatre that night were applauding all of the racism that Jeffries is accused of. This is wrong on two counts--he didn't express his nastier views, and even some of the things he did say got...
So, that's right--I stood up and applauded at the end of Jeffries' scholarly and well-documented presentation. I wasn't applauding his being Black or ideas of racism he might harbor. I was applauding the presentation.