Kamau Kambon

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Kamau Kambon at Bennu Cultural Center

Kamau Rashidi Kambon, born Leroy Jefferson is a former African Studies college instructor.

Dr. Kambon holds a B.A. degree in education/history, and a master's degree in physical education, both an M.A. and an M.Ed. degree in education/administration^[1], and an Ed.D. in urban education/curriculum and instruction from Teacher's College Columbia. ^[2] Kambon taught at St. Augustine's College, a private North Carolina college, from 1982 to 2000^[3] and at North Carolina State University from 2001 to 2005.^[4]^[5]^[6]

He has appeared on television and news programs discussing such topics as: "Kwanzaa," "The Unsolved Murders of Black Women-Are the Police Doing All They Can?," "Food and Health of Black People," "Academic Achievement of Black Children; the Role of Parents in Education," and "Community Development." Kambon is the author of several books^{[citation needed]}, and has run the BlackNificent bookstore since 1994. He currently resides in Wendell, North Carolina.

[edit] Howard University Law School incident

At a panel called "Hurricane Katrina Media Coverage" held at Howard University Law School on October 14, 2005, which was broadcast in its entirety on C-SPAN, Kambon said "The only solution in my estimation is to exterminate white people."^[7]^[8]^[9] Though broadcast on live national television, the incident did not receive media attention until it was uploaded onto YouTube a year later.^[7] According to John Sanders from the Carolina Journal ^[10], Kambon told the audience that white people “have retina scans, they have what they call racial profiling, DNA banks, and they’re monitoring our people to try to prevent the one person from coming up with the one idea. And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that, in my estimation, is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.”

His remarks were part of the full 4 hour video of the "Black Media Forum on Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media"^[11] broadcast on C-SPAN in Washington, DC on 10/14/2005. Kambon's entire speech begins at time marker 3:33:42 on the original video of the event at c-span.org.^[12]^[13]

The Howard University School of Law has since issued a statement rejecting any affiliation with Kambon as well as repudiating any of his statements made during the panel.^[14]