For House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, being a radical lunatic runs in the family.
On Saturday, Jeffries’ brother, Hasan Kwame Jeffries — an associate historyprofessorat The Ohio State University — reposted a photo to social media platform X from the leftist media outlet Jacobin, celebrating the birthday of abolitionist John Brown.
“John Brown understood that only way to free America from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary,” he said.
“He was right then. He is right now,” the post added.
John Brown understood that only way to free America from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary.
He is right now.https://t.co/4PrWGZaDlr
— Hasan Kwame Jeffries (@ProfJeffries)May 9, 2026
For the unfamiliar, Brown became a national figure among radical abolitionists in the 1850s over his violent approach to ending slavery.
1854 saw the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories where the residents themselves were to vote on whether they wanted a government that allowed slavery or not.
A conflict called “Bleeding Kansas” emerged between competing territorial governments, one being for slavery and one being against it. Kansas for several years endured violence as heavily armed Missourians — or Border Ruffians — poured into the territory to support slavery.
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