Incoming Brooklyn Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, who set off a firestorm last week with a Facebook post that blamed some “knockout game” attacks on tensions between blacks and Jews, once invited a known race ranter to speak at her museum.
Laurie Cumbo will represent Crown Heights when she takes office next month.Photo: Lauriecumbo2013.com
As head of the Brooklyn Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Cumbo invited former CUNY Black Studies professor Leonard Jeffries as a speaker in 2011.
Jeffries, who once declared that Jews and the Mafia conspired to keep down blacks, has long been a divisive figure in the city. In 1994 he compared Jews to “skunks — who stink up the place” and he has referred to whites as “ice people.”
Cumbo said that she doesn’t have a professional or personal relationship with Jeffries but asked him to speak about Ghana since the museum was organizing a trip there.
“Dr. Leonard Jeffries is seen as a foremost authority on travel trips to Ghana — he goes on them annually — and the museum had never planned a travel trip,” she said, adding that he volunteered his services.
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