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'''Leonard Jeffries''' (born [[January 19]] [[1937]]) is an [[United States|American]] professor in the [[Black Studies]] department at the [[City College of New York|City College]] in [[Harlem]] who achieved national prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his [[Black supremacist]] and [[Anti-Semitism|antisemitic]] views. His lectures and talks have been characterized as "racist rants".<ref>"Spewing Racism on the City Dime," Andrea Peyser, New York Post, June 15, 2006</ref><ref>"Controversies: The Provocative Professor," Lance Morrow, Time Magazine, Jun. 24, 2001</ref><ref>"Afrocentrism Is the Problem: Beyond Obama’s Wright," Linda Chavez, National Review Online, March 19, 2008</ref> 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 on the alleged perfidious nature of Jews. |
'''Leonard Falkroy Jeffries''' (born [[January 19]] [[1937]]) is an [[United States|American]] professor in the [[Black Studies]] department at the [[City College of New York|City College]] in [[Harlem]] who achieved national prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his [[Black supremacist]] and [[Anti-Semitism|antisemitic]] views. His lectures and talks have been characterized as "racist rants".<ref>"Spewing Racism on the City Dime," Andrea Peyser, New York Post, June 15, 2006</ref><ref>"Controversies: The Provocative Professor," Lance Morrow, Time Magazine, Jun. 24, 2001</ref><ref>"Afrocentrism Is the Problem: Beyond Obama’s Wright," Linda Chavez, National Review Online, March 19, 2008</ref> 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 on the alleged perfidious nature of Jews. |
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Jeffries advanced a theory that whites are "ice people" who are violent and cruel, while blacks are "sun people" who are compassionate and peaceful.<ref name="nr91">{{cite web |
Jeffries advanced a theory that whites are "ice people" who are violent and cruel, while blacks are "sun people" who are compassionate and peaceful.<ref name="nr91">{{cite web |
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| Born | January 19, 1937 |
| Occupation | Professor of Black Studies |
| Spouse | Rosalind Robinson Jeffries |
Leonard Falkroy 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. His lectures and talks have been characterized as "racist rants".[1][2][3] 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 on the alleged perfidious nature of Jews.
Jeffries advanced a theory that whites are "ice people" who are violent and cruel, while blacks are "sun people" who are compassionate and peaceful.[4] He further claims that blacks are superior to whites because of their higher melanin levels.[5] In an interview in Rutherford Magazine May 1995 Jeffries, asked what kind of world he would want to leave to his children, he answered: "A world in which there aren’t any white people".[6]
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 modern times.
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."[4]
References
- ^ "Spewing Racism on the City Dime," Andrea Peyser, New York Post, June 15, 2006
- ^ "Controversies: The Provocative Professor," Lance Morrow, Time Magazine, Jun. 24, 2001
- ^ "Afrocentrism Is the Problem: Beyond Obama’s Wright," Linda Chavez, National Review Online, March 19, 2008
- ^ a b "A Deafening Silence". National Review. September 9 1991. Archived from the original on 2004. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|archivedate=(help) - ^ Calabresi, Massimo (February 14 1994). "Dispatches Skin Deep 101". TIME. 143 (7).
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Rutherford Magazine" p. 13, May 1995. Leonard Jeffries interviewed by T.L. Stanclu and Nisha Mohammed
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
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