THE Black Students Association (BSA), in its most repugnant display of hatred and anti-Semitism since its last speaking invitation to Dorothy Blake Farden (an anthropologist who says that white Europeans are "mutants" created by a being called Yakub), has decided to sponsor City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Leonard Jeffries to speak tonight at Harvard.

Groups ranging from Hillel to Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (AWARE) will be protesting outside Sanders Theater, where Jeffries will give his lecture.

No doubt the sponsoring organizations will try to portray the massive demonstrations planned as racist and anti-Black. But this self-serving interpretation should be rejected by the Harvard community.

Put simply, the reason people will be outside protesting is that they are offended by Leonard Jeffries. In the course of his tenure at CUNY, he has managed to single out and offend every possible category of people.

Jeffries has said to his students that he is "sick and tired of having the damn Jews shoving the Holocaust down [their] throats."

He says that Italians were the muscle behind the Hollywood conspiracy to denigrate Blacks. He also says that gay men in Europe offered their wives to him in exchange for gay sex.

Even within this community, Jeffries has been extremely offensive. He has charged that DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, is a "faggot and a punk." This attitude is disgusting and has no reasonable place in an institution like Harvard.

During an interview with me last fall, Jeffries threatened to kill me if I published the racist and anti-Semitic statements he made. Then he had one of his bodyguards confiscate the tapes of the interview he agreed I could make.

These actions should offend us all--no matter what groups or organizations we align ourselves with.

TO PROTEST BIGOTRY, one has to go after the bigots and their sponsors. That is why Jeffries and BSA (which has a track record for sponsoring racists) should be protested.

There is no alternative.

All campus organizations should sever all ties with BSA, as well as with the Black Law Students Association and the DuBois Graduate Society, who are also sponsoring the Jeffries speech. Their invitation shows such insensitivity to the rest of the Harvard community that any other response would be a miscarriage of justice.

If Leonard Jeffries is what BSA and other sponsoring organizations think represents Black culture, then these groups do not represent the true sentiments and judgment of the Black community at Harvard or any other respectable place.

Maintaining relations with these groups would be the equivalent of maintaining relations with the Nazi Party in hopes of creating a working coalition.

Blacks of good will should choose not to associate themselves with these bigoted organizations. This is not a call to protest Blacks but to protest the racist organizations that claim they speak for the Black community.