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Roosevelt Island, which is going to have another 20,000, and that's now in his district. So he has to worry about it, and I think he knows... He doesn't always do the things that I think are helpful to Israel or the Jews. Listen: he would say I'm basically anti-black and I think every white is basically anti-black unless they're a saint to some degree. We're the products of our upbringing, and the fact is: if you're assaulted in this town, it's more likely you'll be assaulted by a black; and having myself been intimidated by a guy that wanted to beat the shit out of me (I think we talked about that) in Washington Square Park (I had him arrested ultimately, but he was a black). All those things add to it. If you walk down the street at 6 o'clock in the morning, as I do when I go to look for a taxi to go to the airport on a Monday morning, and if there are three blacks walking down the street toward me, I feel a little bit less secure than if there were three white guys walking towards me. And it may be that those three white guys are up to the same ill will at 6 o'clock in the morning on Green Street, but the fact is that that is a natural reaction for most people. There were times when you could never express that, but I've expressed that. I've said to people, “Listen, do you think it's unreasonable, do you think it's racist for me to say that if I'm walking on Green Street at 6 o'clock in the morning and coming towards me are three black guys, that I have a certain feeling of tenseness that I don't