Posted on 06/15/2006 11:42:18 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
THE speech was grotesquely racist - littered with cracks about dead white people. And it featured an insane call for blacks to outsmart the white man by ridding their bodies of all things white: white milk, white sugar, white bread.
But this racist rant was not spoken in a basement somewhere. It was part of a city-hosted "Unity in Diversity" event yesterday - and it took place inside the headquarters of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. During working hours.
Your tax money at work.
The speaker was Dr. Leonard Jeffries, the disgraced City University of New York African Studies professor who rose to infamy in 1991 when he declared that Jews and the Mafia conspired to keep down blacks.
A fire-breathing Jeffries, in African dress and a photograph of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney pinned to his robe, suggested to the standing-room-only crowd of nearly 100 HPD workers that blacks were thinking and acting too white.
"If every white person in the world dropped dead, the system would continue to go on, because it's in you now," he said. "The system that white folks rule."
"That's heavy!" an onlooker chanted in approval.
Jeffries has learned nothing since he was stripped of his departmental chair for his remarks. He continues to teach to this day, unbowed.
In 1994, he compared Jews to "skunks - who stink up the place."
So much for diversity.
Jeffries suggested yesterday that white people conspired to ruin blacks' health with inferior food - a ploy to keep them going to doctors.
"My basic rule of thumb is to stay away from things white," Jeffries told the mostly African-American HPD staffers. "Take the whiteness out of your minds, or at least neutralize it with blackness."
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I guess we're all not all "united" unless we embrace Jeffries' brand of racism.
"My basic rule of thumb is to stay away from things white," Jeffries told the mostly African-American HPD staffers. "Take the whiteness out of your minds, or at least neutralize it with blackness."
This guy sounds like he doesn't follow his own advice. He's obviously smoking some kind of white stuff!
Someone needs to put that clown on national television.
I guess he will be turning down funding generated by taxes paid by whites?
This guy is a racist bigot himself. The "strength through diversity" myth is just that. What is the root of that word? DIVI, as in divide. How can we, as a nation, be stronger through something THAT IS DIVIding us already? We will be stronger if everyone drops the hyphenated nationalities and become just Americans.
The men in WHITE coats need to come pick this guy up!
He's been eating my ex-wife's food?
A White professor who made similar comments about Blacks, of course, would be immediately chastized and probably fired.
The double-standard lives on.
Sounds every bit as nuts as Colin Ferguson. As a matter of fact, that's who I thought of when I read this story.
"The double-standard lives on."
White's have been trained over the past 40 years not to defend themselves. The "R" word doesn't have as much power as it used to though and a lot of folks are getting fed up with being continually p*ssed on.
Thanks for the e-wrist slap. How stupid of me to have thought this clow could have been a racist bigot. I need to enrole in my local "re-education" camp.
Hey Lenny, what are you going to do about your "White" blood cells?
I'm guessing that "Dr." Jeffries isn't the Marcus Welby type of doctor.
"If every white person in the world dropped dead, the system would continue to go on, because it's in you now," he said. "The system that white folks rule."
"That's heavy!" an onlooker chanted in approval.
Deep thoughts?
What Jefferies really deserves is a big WHITE fist in his teeth and a big WHITE boot up his black a**! Spewing his hate is dangerous, for blacks and whites.
When you look at black on white rape, robbery, and murder, you see that this type of speech and teachings leads to actual deaths, and violence.
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