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Yes. Once they did, and he was very nice to them. Yes.
Spent quite a bit of time with them on that occasion?
Yes. A lot of time. Sat down and talked with them.
Do you remember what he talked about?
They were asking him questions. What kinds of questions? They were curious about him and the religion. As I remember, it was that kind of question, informational, and he was very good with them. His thing was always, study, do the best you can educationally.
He emphasized that when he talked with the children.
Hm --mm, yes.
Did he make any of his more extreme anti-white remarks for them?
No, never. I've never heard him -- never --
-- the devil white man --
No. And these students were white, the New Lincoln School students that I used to take there -- they were white.
No, the black kids could just walk in there. They could see him up on 116th St. But the whites had no access to him or his mosque.
To your knowledge, how many of your black children would hear it?
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