House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is under fire for defending his antisemitic uncle and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan after an op-ed he wrote in college over 30 years ago resurfaced this week.
After he was elected to Congress in 2013, Jeffries told the Wall Street Journal that he only had a “vague recollection” of the controversy surrounding his uncle, Leonard Jeffries — a former college professor and department chair of Black Studies at the City University of New York.
In the early 1990s, Leonard Jeffries faced severe backlash after he denounced “rich Jews” and their involvement in the African slave trade and claimed there was “a conspiracy, planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood” of Jewish executives disparaging black Americans in movies.
“I have a vague recollection of it,” Jeffries told the Wall Street Journal. “There was no internet during that era and I can’t even recall a daily newspaper in the Binghamton, N.Y., area but it wasn’t covering the things that the New York Post and Daily News were at the time.”
However, CNN on Wednesday uncovered a previously unreported opinion piece that a young Hakeem Jeffries penned in 1992 while at Binghamton University in upstate New York.
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