Hakeem Jeffries under fire over his unearthed college editorial DEFENDING anti-semite uncle

Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries has only a “faint memory” of the controversy surrounding his anti-Semitic uncle, but wrote a fiery op-ed in college defending him.

Minority leader black studies professor Leonard Jeffries faced backlash in the 1990s after making comments about the involvement of “wealthy Jews” in the slave trade and about Jewish executives “launching a conspiracy, planned and plotted and programmed from Hollywood’ to belittle black Americans in movies.

While a student at Binghamton University in New York, Jeffries wrote an editorial in 1992 defending his uncle and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The school’s Black Student Union, where Jeffries served on the board of directors, had invited the college professor to speak after the controversy.

The younger Jeffries began his editorial by warning that the “rise of the black conservative” would threaten to “perpetuate the oppression of the black masses,” referring to Judge Clarence Thomas’ affirmation.

He compared black Republicans to “House n*****s” who “tried to impersonate the white master,” according to a copy of the document unearthed by CNN.

He wondered why the media black people like Thomas, former Sec. of state Colin Powell and author Shelby Steele.

“Do you think a ruling elite would promote individuals who would try to dismantle their vice grip on power?” asked Jeffries.

The Democratic leader is depicted lower in this story, smiling next to Powell.

‘Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Secretary Louis Farrakhan have come under heavy fire. Where do you think their interests lie?’ he continued, suggesting the pair were better representatives of black interests.

‘Dr. Jeffries has challenged the existing white supremist [sic] education system and long-term distortion of history. His reward is a media lynching, complete with character assassinations and inflammatory false accusations.”

Jeffries wrote the piece for The Vanguard, BSU’s student newspaper.

The younger Jeffries went on to say that conservatism does not represent black people because it is against the “redistribution of wealth.”

Conservative political thinking rejects the redistribution of wealth. Conservative political thought shuns social reform and favors a huge defense industry. Conservative political thinking does not advocate progress in civil rights.”

Jeffries continued his attack on capitalism: “The black conservative believes in the idea of ​​the American dream, the dream in which hard work and perseverance ultimately liberate and yield benefits. However, this completely ignores the economic reality of this country’s capitalist system. Capitalism requires the survival of a permanent underclass.”

Jeffries’ office insisted he does not share his uncle’s views “over 30 years ago.”

“Leader Jeffries has always been clear that he does not share his uncle’s controversial views more than 30 years ago,” spokesperson Christiana Stephenson told CNN.

Like Leonard Jeffries, Farrakhan came under fire for explosive comments about Jews—once praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the 1980s as a “great man” and calling Judaism a “dirty religion.”

Jeffries told the Wall Street Journal in 2013 that he had only “a vague memory” of the controversies with his uncle, as he had been in college. He recalled that it was a difficult time for his father and claimed that his mother was trying to protect him and his brother from the consequences.

“And so when there was a lot of controversy and my brother and I were in school,” Jeffries said. “There was no internet in those days and I can’t even remember a daily newspaper near Binghamton, NY, but it didn’t cover the things the New York Post and Daily News were doing at the time.”

In another Wall Street Journal report Jeffries said he hadn’t even watched his uncle’s most controversial speeches.

But a backlash ensued when the Black Student Union (BSU) invited Leonard Jeffries, Hakeem, and the BSU held a press conference to defend him.

“We have no intention of canceling a presentation that contains factual information, proven by scientific papers and texts,” Jeffries reportedly said.

In 2012, the Anti-Defamation League quoted Leonard Jeffries as saying, “The evil genius of the Jewish community was to join forces to make business their religion and make it part of their culture.”

In 1994, the Associated Press reported that he said, “Jews were like ‘skunks’ and ‘polluted everything.’

Asked about the comment, Professor Jeffries said ‘he didn’t remember’, adding, ‘Isn’t there freedom of speech in America?’

He was convicted at the time by Governor Mario Cuomo and Mayor David Dinkin, and eventually left his position as chairman of the Black Studies Department at the City University of New York in 1995, after a lengthy legal back-and-forth.

Then-student Jeffries went on to explain his comparison of black conservatives to “house negroes.”

“During African slavery, our ancestors acquired the duality of the field Negro and the house Negro. The field negro worked from dawn to dusk, had nothing but contempt for his white master and especially for the majority of the black slaves, who were field negroes. In contemporary terms, what we would call “the masses.” The house negroes did not work the land, they were domestic servants. The house negro was dressed up and was given the impression that he or she was better than those in the field. Most importantly, the house negro tried to imitate the white master. This emulation was not designed with the interests of the masses in mind. Rather, the motivating force was personal gain.

Perhaps this is the problem with today’s black Conservative politician. Their political agenda is not designed to contribute to the upliftment of their people. These right-wing opportunists embrace the political ideology of the power structure and in return are elevated to positions historically reserved for whites.”

And according to local press coverage, Professor Jeffries spent much of his college speech defending himself against accusations of anti-Semitism, but repeated his message about “anti-black” Jewish moguls in Hollywood. He reportedly compared the Jewish opposition to his speech to Nazism.

“It is ironic that members of the Jewish community have felt compelled to take a position that is anti-democratic and … pro-Nazi in all its vileness,” he said.