Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., worked as a youth and assistant pastor of a Harlem church that hosted an antisemitic and Black supremacist speaker at least three times.
, D-Ga., worked as a youth and assistant pastor of a church for a decade while it repeatedly hosted a former New York City professor who was ousted over antisemitic and Black supremacist teachings.
Leonard Jeffries is the uncle of Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is poised to succeed Nancy Pelosi as the next Democratic leader in the House.Georgia Democratic senate candidate U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks during a campaign rally on November 27, 2022 in Morrow, Georgia.At the time of his first appearance at the Abyssinian church in 1991, Leonard Jeffries was embroiled in a legal battle to retain his position as the Black studies department chair at City University of New York .
In July 1991, three months before his first Abyssinian speech, Leonard claimed the portrayal of Black people in movies was"a conspiracy, planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood, where people called Greenberg and Weisberg and Trigliani and what not," the AJC report said. "Leonard Jeffries, the former head of the Black Studies Department at the City College of CUNY, and a professor there since 1972, has espoused racist and anti-Semitic views and theories since at least the early 1980s, when his comments – made while he was department head – began to attract public attention," the ADL wrote.
Leonard Jeffries' rhetoric about Jewish people continued after his Harvard appearance as well. In 1994, he was quoted by The New York Times as comparing Jewish White people to"skunks" who"stunk up everything.
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