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Jeffries, as we have said before, is a racist, anti-Semitic hatemonger. He believes in bogus, discredited theories that link skin pigmentation and climate to personality traits. He cites white conspiracies as the roots of African-Americans' problems. Anyone who disagrees with him is liable to be dismissed as Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was--as "a faggot and a punk...
...every right to invite people with non-mainstream views of history. In fact, they even have the right to invite someone with a racist view of history...
...decision on this particular racist is an easy one. The BSA should not have invited him. Because of his actions of hatred and violence, the Jeffries debate should not be about free speech and divergent views of history but about whether someone who issues death threats deserves a forum at Harvard...
...Arrington, a Democrat who in 1979 was elected the city's first black mayor, refused to cooperate with the investigation on the grounds that he was being harassed by federal prosecutors solely because of his race. He explained his decision to go to prison as a principled stand against racist law enforcement and vowed not to give up the documents to U.S. Attorney Frank Donaldson, who retires a few months from now. "We have a history of taking adversity and turning it into advantage," Arrington told supporters before he marched off. "That's what we want to do here...
...equating the mayor with King is as bogus as comparing Donaldson to Bull Connor. The straightforward moral choices that Birmingham faced in King's day are not a reliable guide to sorting out the ambiguities posed by the Arrington affair. Back then, racist bombing attacks were so common that the city's best black neighborhood was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill." Parks, schools and buses were segregated, and most blacks were denied the vote. Today every legal vestige of Jim Crow has disappeared from the city, and Arrington sits in the mayor's office. The racial battleground is no longer black...