House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries compared black conservatives to “house negroes” in a 1992 column for his college newspaper.
Jeffries, who was also an executive board member of the Black Student Union at Binghamton University in New York, wrote in the 1992 column that black conservatives seek to emulate white conservatives, The Daily Wire reported Wednesday.
“The House Negro of the slavery era and the Black conservative of today are both opportunists interested in securing some measure of happiness for themselves within the existing social order,” Jeffries wrote at the time. “In both cases, the social order has Blacks occupying the lowest societal echelon.”