Word: jeffriesism
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The glaring racial and ethnic polarization at the Jeffries' speech arose partly from the content of the talk. But it mainly arose from members of the audience watching their fellow students respond to the speaker: as a hero or a racist, an academic or an anti-Semite, a leader in...
THERE IS NO longer any doubt why the BSA invited Jeffries to Harvard. And it's certainly not because he speaks flawless French.
"We endorse [Jeffries'] Blackness as a Black individual and a Black intellectual," said BSA president Art A. Hall '93 last weekend. "But as far as agreement with his viewpoints, that's another side of the issue."
Apparently not. That side of the issue was cleared up Wednesday night, when the spectators in the orchestra section--exclusively members of the BSA and other sponsoring organizations--cheered Jeffries at every turn of his speech.
Applause was directed not at his melanin but at his message. In no uncertain terms, Jeffries views met applause, approval and endorsement from most--if not all--of the "sun people" in the orchestra.