Word: jeffriesism
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-Martin L. Kilson, Thomson professor of government, about the Jeffries event.
"If Leonard Jeffries is what BSA and other sponsoring organizations think represents Black culture, then these groups do not represent the true sentiments and judgment of the Black community at Harvard or any other respectable place."
-J. Eliot Morgan '92, a reporter who alleges that Jeffries threatened his life.
When the speech eventually begins, protesters unfurl a banner calling controversial City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries a bigot. They are tackled by Jeffries' bodyguards, and a brawl breaks out.
Jeffries calls for the execution of all white people in his speech. The story is on the cover of the next day's New York Times--and The New York Post.