Leonard Jeffries
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| Born | January 19, 1937 |
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| Occupation | Professor of Black Studies |
| Spouse(s) | Rosalind Robinson Jeffries |
Leonard Jeffries (born January 19, 1937) is an American professor in the Black Studies department at the City College in Harlem who achieved national prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his Black supremacist and antisemitic views. After a lengthy legal battle that was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, Jeffries lost his chairmanship of the Black Studies department. He remains a professor at CCNY, and continues to promote his views.
Jeffries advanced a theory that whites are "ice people" who are violent and cruel, while blacks are "sun people" who are compassionate and peaceful.[1] He further claims that blacks are superior to whites because of their higher melanin levels.[2] In an interview in Rutherford Magazine May 1995 Jeffries, asked what kind of world he world want to leave to his children, he answered: "A world in which there aren’t any white people".[3]
Jeffries has been quoted in the New York Times saying that "rich Jews who financed the development of Europe also financed the slave trade." The New York Post quoted him lecturing that Jews controlled the slave trade, and that they use their control of Hollywood to promote the subservience of blacks in the modern day.
Jeffries quipped that the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster was "the best thing to happen to America in a long time," as it would stop white people from "spreading their filth through the universe."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "A Deafening Silence". National Review (September 9, 1991). Archived from the original on 2004. Retrieved on 2008-06-24.
- ^ Calabresi, Massimo (February 14, 1994). "Dispatches Skin Deep 101". TIME 143 (7).
- ^ "Rutherford Magazine" p. 13, May 1995. Leonard Jeffries interviewed by T.L. Stanclu and Nisha Mohammed
[edit] External links
- Jeffries' on AfricaWithin
- "Our Sacred Mission", speech at the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany, New York, July 20, 1991
- Antisemitism among Black Student Groups
- Interview with Professor Leonard Jeffries at State of the Black World Conference in Atlanta, GA
- "Academic Freedom: The Grounds for Tolerating Abuses" by Robert P. George
