Word: jeffriesism
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Even within this community, Jeffries has been extremely offensive. He has charged that DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, is a "faggot and a punk." This attitude is disgusting and has no reasonable place in an institution like...
During an interview with me last fall, Jeffries threatened to kill me if I published the racist and anti-Semitic statements he made. Then he had one of his bodyguards confiscate the tapes of the interview he agreed I could make.
TO PROTEST BIGOTRY, one has to go after the bigots and their sponsors. That is why Jeffries and BSA (which has a track record for sponsoring racists) should be protested.
All campus organizations should sever all ties with BSA, as well as with the Black Law Students Association and the DuBois Graduate Society, who are also sponsoring the Jeffries speech. Their invitation shows such insensitivity to the rest of the Harvard community that any other response would be a miscarriage...
If Leonard Jeffries is what BSA and other sponsoring organizations think represents Black culture, then these groups do not represent the true sentiments and judgment of the Black community at Harvard or any other respectable place.