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Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries haunted by record of his antisemitic uncle: Who is Leonard Jeffries? [Video] (aol.com) On July 20, 1991, a Black studies professor at the City College of New York named Leonard Jeffries gave a two-hour speech at the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany, the New York state capital, that attacked Jews with what one observer would later describe as “snarling racism.”
"Even as he sometimes alighted on the purported subject of his talk — the need for New York state to implement a less Eurocentric curriculum in its schools — he returned repeatedly to blame “rich Jews” for slavery and contemporary American racism.
"Thirty years later, his nephew House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is being forced to explain why he defended that day’s infamous, inflammatory remarks — and why he failed to disclose that defense earlier, when he had opportunities to do so.". . .
A senior in college at the time, Hakeem Jeffries blasted black conservatives in his Vanguard opinion piece, calling them “house negroes” and lamenting their acceptance by the “white media.”
I suppose MSNBC's Joy Reid would be more to Hakeem's liking. TD
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries once defended antisemitic speech, Louis Farrakhan - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) . . ."In 2013, when he was first elected to Congress, Hakeem Jeffries told the Wall Street Journal that he had only a “vague recollection” of the controversy and that his parents sought to shield him from it. But a CNN report this week found that Jeffries — who was 21 and in college when the controversy began — defended his uncle in a student newspaper and was a board member of a student group that invited his uncle to give a speech on campus. The opinion piece he wrote also defended Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader with a well-documented history of antisemitic statements, and took aim at Black conservatives. ". .
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