Word: jeffriesism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The issue of what constitutes free speech has been raised with a new urgency in recent weeks, initially because City College decided to keep the infamous Leonard Jeffries as head of its African-American Studies Department, and then because of an incident of anti-semitic harassment at Yale. In both...
These same people now extend that principle (as they see it) to defend Jeffries' right to advocate racist theories in the classroom and issue death threats to members of the press, and the Yale student's First Amendment right to spray-paint a swastika on another's door.
Denial is apparently Jeffries' strong suit. And we don't doubt that before his fate at CCNY is resolved, He' ll have lots else to deny. The real question here isn't why Jeffries persists in insulting Jews or other whites, along with blacks who don't share his views...
Jeffries, after all, has published next to nothing; he has no academic reputation of which to speak. His chairmanship is an ongoing insult to the whole notion of black studies at CCNY.
President Harleston now professes "deep pain" that the public-at-large perceives CCNY as a hostile and anti-Semitic institution; he worries about the "impact" of Jeffries' statements on the "image of the college." It would be comforting if Harleston worries more about the reality of life at CCNY, and...