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Throughout his lecture--a revisionist version of history that attributed virtually every success of modern society to the ancient Egyptian civilization of the Nile--Jeffries denied charges that he is a bigot, at one point citing his presidency of a Jewish fraternity while in college as evidence.
Later, in reference to the Holocaust, Jeffries said that "Adolf Hitler was a problem of Europeans. Adolf Hitler is not my problem."
Despite these remarks, the lecture was more benign in content than most critics expected, although it was enough to arouse Jeffries' critics and supporters to occasional shouting matches during the question and answer period.
"Do they have serious questions, or do they come in here with the hysteria and passion and racism that has been bred into them?" Jeffries asked the moderator, Williston Professor of Law Roger Fisher '43.
Several Harvard faculty members said they did not attend the lecture because they think Jeffries is a racist, not the academic he calls himself.