Word: jeffriesism
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BSA HAS every constitutional right to invite Jeffries. This is unquestionable. But the rest of the Harvard community has a responsibility to show that bigotry and hatred will not be legitimized by silence.
The leadership of the Black groups involved counted on Jewish passivity and the fear of other liberal groups of being called racist if they protest BSA's decision to invite Jeffries. But they shouldn't cooperate--they should speak out tonight.
The grandparents of many Jewish students on this campus were slaughtered in the Holocaust that Jeffries says he is tired of hearing about. The gay community suffers continuous discrimination, but Jeffries says these people are "nasty" products of the European "ice influence."
In the December 2, 1991 edition of The Final Call (the Nation of Islam newspaper that anyone who wants a crash course in anti-Semitism should read), Jeffries says that I "was a planned enemy of his struggle" for printing my interview with him in the What Is To Be...
Jeffries' bigotry includes attacks against all who would dissent from his racist onslaught. When I interviewed him, he made racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay and bigoted statements because, as he noted later, he thought "I was representing the Black community at Harvard." It will be up to this Black community...