Leonard Jeffries

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Leonard Jeffries
Born	January 19, 1937
Occupation	Professor of Black Studies

Leonard Jeffries (born January 19, 1937) is a professor in the Black Studies department at the City College in Harlem who achieved national prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his antisemitic views. He was quoted in the New York Times saying that "rich Jews who financed the development of Europe also financed the slave trade." The New York Post quoted him lecturing that Jews controlled the slave trade, and that they use their control of Hollywood to promote the subservience of blacks in the modern day.

After a lengthy legal battle that was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, Jeffries lost his chairmanship of the Black Studies department. He remains a professor at CCNY, and continues to promote his views on the alleged perfidious nature of Jews.

He also stirred controversy with his analysis of whites as "ice people" who are violent and cruel, while blacks are "sun people" who are compassionate and peaceful.^[1] He further claims that blacks are superior to whites because of their higher melanin levels^[2], and his lectures often turn to racist and antisemitic tirades. In an interview in Rutherford Magazine May 1995 Jeffries further expanded on his racial views when asked what kind of world he world want to leave to his children, he answered: "A world in which there aren’t any white people"^[3].

Jeffries also caused controversy in 1991 when he said that the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster was "the best thing to happen to America in a long time," as it would stop white people from "spreading their filth through the universe."^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "Discounting chickens - editorial," National Review, September 9, 1991
^ Massimo Calabresi, "Dispatches Skin Deep 101", Time, February 14, 1994
^ "Rutherford Magazine" p. 13, May 1995. Leonard Jeffries interviewed by T.L. Stanclu and Nisha Mohammed