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* Professor of Black Studies at City College of New York
* Makes his rabid anti-Jewish and anti-white views a part of his
classes
* Believes that blacks ("sun people") are racially and culturally
superior to whites ("ice people")
* "Jews are a race of skunks and animals that stole Africa from the
Black Man."
Born in January 1937, Leonard Jeffries is a longtime faculty member at the
City College of New York (CCNY) and a onetime head of its Black Studies
Department. He is one of the leading proponents of Afrocentrism-a field of
study that judges Western civilization to be irredeemably racist and demands
a corrective curriculum glorifying African peoples and cultures. A black
supremacist, Jeffries claims whites to be genetically inferior to blacks; an
inveterate anti-Semite, he apportions to "rich Jews" the blame for
everything from the allegedly anti-black content of Hollywood movies to the
transatlantic slave trade.
In 1988 Professor Jeffries was appointed by then-New York State Education
Commissioner Thomas Sobol to help draft a report recommending an expanded
focus on "multiculturalism" in the state's K-12 curricula. Jeffries'
influence was everywhere in evidence in the final report. Reading more like
a polemic than a scholarly assessment, the report claimed that "African
Americans, Asian Americans, Puerto Ricans/Latinos, and Native Americans have
all been the victims of an intellectual and educational oppression that has
characterized the culture and institutions of the United States and the
European American world for centuries." The title of the report was: "A
Curriculum of Inclusion."
Jeffries' black supremacist views first came to public notice in the spring
of 1988, when a white student, writing in the CCNY campus newspaper,
catalogued the host of anti-white theories that Jeffries routinely advanced
in one of his classes, Black Studies 101. Jeffries had been teaching at CCNY
since 1972, when he was tapped to head the Black Studies department and was
almost instantly granted tenure, thanks in no small part to a CCNY
administration determined to appease a surging militancy among blacks on
campus. Jeffries had little or no standard peer-reviewed scholarship to his
name at the time he was granted tenure -- or, for that matter, since.
In April 1990, the New York
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reported that another Jeffries class, nominally about African heritage,
would have been truer to its content had it been offered under title of
"Anti-Jewish Conspiracies 101." Grossly overstating the participation of
Jews in the transatlantic slave trade, Jeffries taught that "rich Jews who
financed the development of Europe also financed the slave trade." In a
similar vein, he railed against the notion that the murder of six million
Jews during World War II deserved to be recognized as a uniquely horrific
act of genocide, complaining to his students that "the Jewish Holocaust is
raised as the only Holocaust."
Jeffries also used his class to retail his decidedly supremacist theory of
human evolution. Blacks, according to Jeffries, were "sun people," the
culturally and racially superior counterparts of whites, the "ice people."
Speaking at the taxpayer-funded Empire State Black Arts and Cultural
Festival in Albany, New York in July 1991, Jeffries complained about a
"systematic" and "unrelenting" attack "coming from the Jewish community,"
against blacks. "Russian Jewry," he stated, "had a particular control over
the movies, and their financial partners, the Mafia, put together a system
of destruction for Black people." Singling out his Jewish disputants in
academia, Jeffries claimed that they were "slick and devilish and dirty and
dastardly." He denounced Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch
as the "ultimate, supreme, sophisticated, debonair racist" and a "Texas
Jew."
During the same speech, Jeffries said that he had once headed a Jewish
fraternity in college. Boasting that he had then been known as "King of the
Jews," he claimed that the fraternity's members had relied on a "system of
support" to cheat their way to academic success. Stated Jeffries: "The whole
average of the fraternity was a Dean's list average, even dumb Jews made it,
because there was a system of support." But according to the President of
Greek Life at the college that Jeffries attended (Lafayette College in
Easton, Pennsylvania), the school has never had a Jewish fraternity.
Not all of Jeffries' hatred was directed against Jews. After sneering at the
"white folks," the "white boy," and "the culture of white racism," Jeffries
called for a radical re-writing of American history as previously recorded.
For starters, he insisted that the first U.S. President must henceforth be
known as "George Washington the slave master bastard Founding Father." He
then offered a historical narrative which held that "America was founded by
rich white men with property and power," and that all of American history
amounted to nothing more than "affirmative action for rich white folks with
property and power." Advocating for "African-centered education" that would
give no attention to "the devilishness of [Christopher] Columbus" and other
evil whites, Jeffries concluded by urging educators to embrace his
"curriculum of inclusion."
The response was immediate: Michele Wallace, a professor in the CCNY English
Department called Jeffries a "maniac." Under public fire, the college was
compelled to take action. In March of 1992, the Board of Trustees voted to
remove Jeffries as head of the Black Studies Department. Contemptuous of his
critics -- in his Albany speech Jeffries had spoken with derision of "my
Jews at City College" -- Jeffries refused to accept the trustees' decision,
challenging it in the Federal District Court in Manhattan on free speech
grounds. The legal battle would rage until April 1995, when an appeals
court, reversing an earlier ruling, upheld Jeffries' dismissal as department
head.
Though he was not reinstated as the head of the Black Studies Department,
Jeffries remains at the college as a tenured professor. Moreover, he
continues to travel to universities across the United States, delivering
speeches in which his hatred of Jews and whites reveals itself as fiercely
as ever. In recent years he has said that "Jews are a race of skunks and
animals that stole Africa from the Black Man."
Jeffries is also doing his utmost to help cultivate the next generation of
black supremacists. Convinced that America is founded on a "system of white
supremacy," he has urged his black supporters to adopt a "revolutionary
posture" and oppose both the Republicans and the Democrats, whose shared
agenda, according to Jeffries, is the "destruction of the black community."
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