ChapterZero

Cornel West was a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher last night, and he was looking/acting kind of crazy. Although I don’t know much about him as I do say Mike Dyson, for a while his name has been synonymous with the black intelligista, so I decided to look into it and make sure he’s indeed worthy of the respect I was granting him willy nilly. I’m still not sure that’s the case, but I did come across an interesting factoid while reading an account of his run-in with Larry Summers (West has tenure at Harvard).

From the wikipedia entry on Leonard Jeffries:

Leonard Jeffries (born January 19, 1937) is an American 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]

This strikes me as ridiculous– Larry Summers is fired for his comments, but this guy gets to promote his obviously delusional racist views? I mean really, ice people vs. sun people … from a professor? I suspect part of the problem is that Jeffries may be tenured, but if he were white I’m sure activists would find a way around that, or just make his life a hell until he left voluntarily. But he’s black, so he gets away with being a retard. Oh, boy.