Word: jeffriesism
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I'm writing to say "Hurray" to Jessica Yellin '92 for her courageous letter in The Crimson (February 3) criticizing the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA) for inviting Leonard Jeffries to our campus. I say "Hurry" also to other students--white, Black, Asian, Arab, etc.--who recognize that there are...
Yellin's critique of an invitation to Jeffries is right on target. There is simply no valid intellectual or pedagogical reason for BSA to bring Jeffries here. While God knows that Black Americans--after a couple of centuries of American slavery and another century-plus of modern racism--have a...
"There has been outside contact but no outsideinfluence," Held said. "[The callers] basicallywanted to express their strong feelings that theremust be a strong protest of Leonard Jeffries andhis obvious and total bigotry...but there were nothreats or ultimatums issued by them."
Some Jewish activists have charged that Hillel's response to the news of Jeffries' visit was slow and came only in response to pressure from the Jewish Defense Organization (JDO), a militant Jewish group in New York City.
Held acknowledged receiving phone calls about Jeffries from New York, but he said Hillel arrived at the decision to protest on its own.