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have if there are three white guys walking towards me at that same 6 o'clock in the morning?” And they say “No, it's perfectly reasonable.” And I think it is perfectly reasonable. Now, it's unfair to blacks who are decent, but the truth is that in the city of New York there is a substantial number of militants, pathological characters who are bent on achieving revenge against the white community that from their point of view enslaved them and tortured them and did all the terrible things that placed them in the conditions that they now are. But I don't accept the bull shit that I have to suffer for history. I don't. And I say these things. Now, that I think is a feeling that a lot of whites have who are not able to say it or willing to say it, and blacks know it.

I had a black cleaning lady, a wonderful woman, that would come every day. It was a very nice arrangement. She would come after work. She worked in a factory. She would come for two hours a day and clean up my house. It was lovely. I had helped her get into a low income housing project on 135th Street. She'd been living in a terrible area, And she said to me one day: “I have to leave you, Mr. Koch.” I said, Why, Theo? Why do you have to go?” She said, “Because it's worth my life to get home after 7 o'clock in Harlem.” So I said, “Theo, then of course you have to leave me. I don't want you to risk your life and limb to come and work for me, and I'm very sorry about it.”