Professor Brother of Hakeem Jeffries Invokes the Violence of John Brown on Social Media

Professor Brother of Hakeem Jeffries Invokes the Violence of John Brown on Social Media

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, the younger brother of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, is a professor of history at Ohio State University. In a recent social media post, he invoked the violence of John Brown, suggesting ‘white supremacy’ should be ended “by any means necessary.”

This is Hakeem Jeffries, brother. Dangerous gaslighting rhetoric runs in the family. pic.twitter.com/1cIQydezbV

— Matthew Nichol (@MatthewNichol5) May 16, 2026

Violent rhetoric and actual violence have become normalized on the left. This must end.

From Campus Reform:

Hakeem Jeffries’ brother invokes John Brown’s violence while discussing white supremacy ‘in the White House’

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, an Ohio State University professor and the brother of Hakeem Jeffries, made social media posts referencing the elimination of white supremacists “by any means necessary.”

In a trending social media post, Libs of TikTok highlighted an X post from Jeffries. In the post, he writes, “John Brown understood that the only way to free Americans from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary. He was right then. He is right now.”

Jeffries cited John Brown, an American abolitionist known for advocating violence to end slavery. One quote from Brown that describes his philosophy states: “I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”

One person commented on the post, jokingly asking, “Are these ‘white supremacists’ in the room with you now?” Jeffries responded, “Nah. They’re in the White House.” The post further suggests that Jeffries was referring to President Trump and his administration in the original post.

Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University notes that progressive academics have done this with Brown before.

He writes at FOX News:

Other academics have pushed Brown as a model for activists in fighting racism, oligarchy and other ills in society.

Stacey Patton, professor of journalism at Howard University, previously pushed this model in a blog titled “John Brown Didn’t Ask Enslaved People How to Be A Good White Ally.” Patton scolded White liberals to stop asking how to be a better “ally” to minorities.

“It’s a question that always lands heavy. Not because I doubt their sincerity, but because the question itself is still a form of protection that centers the asker’s confusion instead of the target’s danger,” Patton wrote. “It’s a request to be taught, forgiven, and reassured, again and again. It’s another round of homework assigned to the wounded. … It’s exhausting as hell because it’s still a form of emotional outsourcing.”

Brown is best known for his pivotal role in the period known as “Bleeding Kansas” and the infamous Pottawatomie massacre, which he orchestrated in 1856. Brown and his fellow abolitionists dragged five Kansas settlers, at least three of whom were pro-slavery sympathizers, out of their homes and executed them. His own son, Salmon Brown, said that when his father and his brother heard about the caning of abolitionist Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks, they went “crazy, crazy.”

Brown was eventually captured after his raid on Harpers Ferry and hanged.

I understand that Brown is viewed as a figure who recognized that the scourge of slavery would only be excised from our nation by force. He is viewed as a catalyst of the Civil War by many. However, his murder and kidnapping of Whites were efforts to use terror and vigilantism to achieve the worthy goal of emancipation.

This is not the 1800s, and America does not have a slavery problem anymore. We do not even have a serious racism problem anymore, but the left will not let the issue die because they still see it as politically useful.

What they are not taking into account is that between the murder of Charlie Kirk and the multiple attempts on Trump’s life, many people on the right are already on edge.

The violent rhetoric has to stop.

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