Posted on 04/13/2023 9:32:41 AM PDT by Brown Deer
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) once claimed he had only a "vague recollection" of and hadn't looked at the anti-Semitic speeches made by his uncle in the 1990s, but a 1992 editorial by the Democratic leader uncovered by CNN shows he defended his uncle, his comments, and notorious anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Jeffries’s uncle, Leonard Jeffries, faced backlash in the 1990s for his comments accusing "rich Jews" of being responsible for the slave trade and alleging the existence of "a conspiracy, planned and plotted" by Jewish executives in Hollywood to portray black people poorly. Farrakhan is an infamous anti-Semite who has defended Adolf Hitler and assailed the "stranglehold that Jews have on this government."
In the unearthed article, the Democratic leader defended his uncle’s ideologies after inviting him to speak on his campus at Binghamton University.
"Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Minister Louis Farrakhan have come under intense fire," Jeffries wrote in 1992. "Where do you think their interests lie?" He claimed his uncle "has challenged the existing white supremist [sic] educational system and long standing distortion of history."
"His reward has been a media lynching complete with character assassinations and inflammatory erroneous accusations," Jeffries added.
Jeffries also compared black conservatives to "House Negroes" during American slavery, calling them "tokens" and "opportunists."
"The House Negro of the slavery era and the Black conservative of today are both opportunists interested in securing some measure of happiness for themselves within the existing social order," Jeffries wrote.
Jeffries’s office told CNN he has "consistently been clear that he does not share the controversial views espoused by his uncle over thirty years ago."
The Democratic leader told the Wall Street Journal when he first took office in the House in 2013 that he had "a vague recollection" of the controversies and was away at school and not paying attention.
Jeffries also defended his uncle’s campus speech at a 1992 press conference after a Jewish group protested, CNN reported:
In February 1992, Hakeem Jeffries was a senior at Binghamton University in upstate New York and a board member of the Black Student Union. The BSU extended an invitation for the embattled professor to speak on campus for an undisclosed fee, drawing outrage from some students on campus and members of the Jewish Student Union.
The BSU said the profits from the event would go to a foundation in an honor of a student killed in an auto accident.
After a Jewish student group called on the BSU to cancel the professor’s speaking engagement, Jeffries led a news conference defending his uncle and his speaking engagement.
"We have no intention of canceling a presentation that contains factual information, proven through scholarly documents and texts," read Hakeem Jeffries from a statement reported in the student newspaper the Pipe Dream. "The proper way to way to debate scholarship is with scholarship–not with high-tech lynchings, media assassinations, character desecrations and venomous attacks."
Wow
That’s why libtards voted him for leader - he hates Jews
The pot’s calling the kettle black.
It doesn’t matter to them.
He could shoot a man on 5th Avenue and he wouldn’t lose any supporters.
I had no idea this racist punk was Farrakhans nephew so now it makes sense birds of a feather
Farrakhan is obamas friend too.
[snip] ...a 1992 editorial by the Democratic leader uncovered by CNN shows he defended his uncle, his comments, and notorious anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Jeffries’s uncle, Leonard Jeffries, faced backlash in the 1990s for his comments accusing "rich Jews" of being responsible for the slave trade and alleging the existence of "a conspiracy, planned and plotted" by Jewish executives in Hollywood to portray black people poorly. Farrakhan is an infamous anti-Semite who has defended Adolf Hitler and assailed the "stranglehold that Jews have on this government."
In the unearthed article, the Democratic leader defended his uncle’s ideologies after inviting him to speak on his campus at Binghamton University.
"Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Minister Louis Farrakhan have come under intense fire," Jeffries wrote in 1992. "Where do you think their interests lie?" He claimed his uncle "has challenged the existing white supremist [sic] educational system and long standing distortion of history." [/snip]
The problem is, CNN is now run by Trump apologists. /rimshot
Gee, another Democrat hypocrite ... color me surprised.
Hakeem don’t care much about that “black lives matter” bullshoot.
I thought all libtards did.
First, the slave trade consisted of sellers and buyers. ALL THE 'FIRST' SELLERS WERE BLACKS IN AFRICA. Black leaders rounded up blacks they didn't like, or raided fellow villages or bought them from families with too many kids. Somewhat like Cartels today only much worse.
There would NOT have been a slave trade without the sellers. No one was buying 'Irish or Italian men and families' because sane cultures didn't see their own people. Slavery was African. Period.
Second, Jews were involved in the early civil rights movement in our country and risked their lives going into the democrat Jim Crow South fighting for basic rights for all people. Two of the three freedom fighters murdered in Mississippi in the summer of '64 were Jewish. The people who murdered them were white democrats.
And Louis Farrakhan lived in Chicago while Bernie Sanders (Jewish) was over at the CORE freedom house (less than 3miles away) helping to organize the black community against police violence. Farrakhan is not only nuts he's a liar and knows he's a liar.
The APPLES NEVER FALL FAR FROM THE TREE
He’s no different that the hate filled Blacks that just got reinstated in TN.
It’s OK. He’s a Democrat.
Oh, THAT Jeffries’ nephew.
That got him the self-hating Jews’ vot AND the Jew-hating gentile vote. His skin pigmentation did the rest.
“White supremist” = white kid fan of Dianna Ross.
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