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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Remember: it's only racist when it's said about dark skinned people.
Melanin Theory
".. Melanin is responsible for the existence of civilization, philosophy, religion, truth, justice, and righteousness. Individuals (whites) containing low levels of Melanin will behave in a barbaric manner. Melanin gives humans the ability to FEEL because it is the absorber of all frequencies of energy. Since whites have the least amount of Melanin, this is why they are perceived by People of Color as generally being rigid, unfeeling (heartless), cold, calculating, mental, and "unspiritual." [4]
This hypothesis is supported by black academic Leonard Jeffries, who was dismissed in 1992 from his post as chairman of the Harlem's City College Black Studies department for having allegedly made anti-Semitic statements. Jeffries claims that the pigment melanin is the source of intelligence and creativity. He divides humanity into African “sun people” and European “ice people,” the latter being not only melanin-deficient but born cold and greedy, militaristic, authoritarian, and possessed of a host of other racially determined defects..."
Jeffries still has tenure. The only reason people like this get into our school is a misplaced white guilt, and a big helping of hate america leftwinger ideology that pretty much allows anything that attacks the status quo.
"If every white person in the world dropped dead, the system would continue to go on"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHH!
This is one white guy who would like every white person to take next Wednesday off from work.
....sounds like jive to me.
LOL
Paging Senator Byrd! Paging Senator Byrd! Please report in uniform.
The fact that this guy remains a teacher AT ALL is nothing short of sinful.
....Gunny - man, that is sooooo white...!!
in the real world, it would be "Hey, dere, mo'fo'...
Lemme, you know, like axe you a queshun, you know...
you be wantin' fries wid dat...??"
They should take him up on it and stop the pay and grants he gets from the white guys. Then extend that to his supporters. No more welfare, free medical aid or housing from those white devils.
That will show those white devils.
It was the "poor man's Harvard." By father was quite proud of being a Baruch grad.
Chitlins, pigs-feet and buckets of fried chicken will keep you going to the doctor...
It wasn't mandatory.
Yes, it's worked so well in South Africa.
Get rid of all the whiteness, so did he give the speech in English? How very black of him.
Oh, my. We must not say anything bad about the fanatic, Jeffries. That might hurt the feelings of the racist freak.
"If every white person in the world dropped dead, the system would continue to go on"
"Yes, it's worked so well in South Africa."
I just got back from a month on South Africa and found it to be in pretty good shape. Zimbabwe now, that's another story.
Thanks for the ping.
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