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to the parochial schools. In other words, they're already middle income.

Koch:

Correct, different life style. And I want to tell you that the blacks who discuss this are not honest about it. I remember Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is the commissioner of human rights -- she was on television one day (this is several years ago during the Forest Hills imbroglio) and I happen to watch a lot of the Sunday morning ghetto programs because I like to be on them and I like to know how people handle themselves on them, and I saw her. And she had a statement which I thought was terrific. She said, and I'm paraphrasing now, but what I'm saying to you was the subject of correspondence in the Village Voice, my recollection is, and also in articles that Paul Cowan and others did on this issue, the issue of Forest Hills. And she said: “I'm not suggesting that people of different life styles be brought together. What I'm suggesting is that what we have to have is that people of the same life style be able to live together and work together and have their kids go to school together.” I agree with that completely, completely. But that's not what she was doing when she denounced the whites in Forest Hills as racists and the other blacks and other militant whites and also what I think of now as exotic liberals who denounced others who wouldn't stay and take the crap -- that's the only way to put it -- that comes





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