Anonymous wrote:Very inflammatory writing from Jeffries' college days defending his antisemitic uncle and Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan.
He also has disdain for black conservatives like Byron Daniel.
His office (not him) put out a statement:
Jeffries’ office maintained his record in public service was one of “bringing communities together” and said he did not share his uncle’s views.
“Leader Jeffries has consistently been clear that he does not share the controversial views espoused by his uncle over thirty years ago,” spokesperson Christiana Stephenson told CNN in a statement Wednesday.
If this were Speaker McCarthy who had written something this incendiary in college, the media would be hounding him day after day seeking a comment.
Will they do the same to Jeffries? Doubtful.
He and every Democrat should have to respond to questions about this story. It's only fair.
For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only a “vague recollection” of the controversy, saying he couldn’t even recall coverage of it in local press.
But a CNN KFile review of material from a 30-year-old college campus incident sharply undermines Jeffries’ claims.
While Jeffries was a college student at Binghamton University in upstate New York, the Black Student Union, in which Jeffries was an executive board member, invited his uncle to speak on campus after his inflammatory comments caused an uproar.
And in a previously unreported college editorial, Jeffries defended his uncle along with Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, writing, “Do you think that a ruling elite would promote individuals who would seek to dismantle their vice like grip on power?” He added that they were unfairly targeted by “White media” for challenging “the longstanding distortion of history.”
Leonard Jeffries faced widespread backlash in the early 1990s after comments he made about the involvement of “rich Jews” in the African slave trade and “a conspiracy, planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood” of Jewish executives who he said were responsible for denigrating Black Americans in films.
“Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Minister Louis Farrakhan have come under intense fire,” wrote Jeffries in February 1992. “Where do you think their interests lie? Dr. Jeffries has challenged the existing white supremist educational system and long standing distortion of history. His reward has been a media lynching complete with character assassinations and inflammatory erroneous accusations.”
The editorial was mainly harsh criticism of Black conservatives, and contained other inflammatory remarks from the future congressman.
“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. In both cases, the social order has Blacks occupying the lowest societal echelon,” wrote Jeffries.
Soon after he was elected to Congress, Jeffries told The Wall Street Journal in 2013 he only had “a vague recollection” of the controversies with his uncle, remembering it only as a tough time for his father and claimed his mother shielded him and his brother from the controversies because he was off at college.
Guess you are unfamiliar with Jim Jordan or Marjorie Taylor Greene? You do not need to look at what they said in college.
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