The "Leonard Jeffries" Cancer

Cleansed at CUNY

Wow, how could this happen?

“ Once upon a time, as “elite” universities have always done, CUNY routinely hired its own alumni. In 1970, fearing race riots, CUNY’s Board of Trustees changed policy to “open admissions,” guaranteeing admission to every New York City high school graduate. The trustees threw in the towel. Today, CCNY is best known for black supremacist Leonard Jeffries. Hired in 1970 to run the Black Studies Department, Jeffries has never published anything. Reportedly, he teaches that the world is composed of virtuous “sun people” (non-whites) and evil “ice people” (whites). He never prepares for class, and routinely engages in professional misconduct. And yet, no colleagues have ever rebuked him. Meanwhile, CUNY’s thousands of cushy, patronage staff and administrative jobs all are “full-time,” with some paying over $100,000. The patronage is doled out apartheid-style, based on race, sex, and ethnicity. On pain of “whitelisting,” adjuncts must slavishly support the racist, sexist, heterophobic status quo, the First Amendment be damned. Meanwhile, the apartheidchiks harass adjuncts, and encourage students to do the same. [www.academia.org/campus_reports/1999/may_1999_4.html - Cached] ”  That was hard.