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best of all possible worlds, where everybody trusts everybody else and you don't have any special affinities racially, culturally. Terrific. But that's not life.

The terrible thing is this double standard. If blacks vote in a bloc, that's okay. If whites vote in a bloc, that's racist. This is the language that's employed by the media as well as by liberals in general. I deplore that kind of characterization. It's not racist in my judgment, not at all. That doesn't mean that blacks don't get elected -- they do. Charlie Rangel, if he loses the white votes in his area, they could easily put up a white against him and beat him. But they won't. They have a certain regard for him and they will support him. But he ought to worry about it, because he's not the best on Israel, and his district is very Jewish -- the voting part of his district. The blacks don't vote proportionate to their numbers.

Okay, getting back to the Puerto Ricans. So I had a couple of meetings at my house. I remember one that was really funny. Arturo invited maybe 10 or 15 Puerto-Ricans to come to my house, and they came one at a time on a Saturday morning, and the first one to come -- I'd never met him... the bell rings, there's this guy, a Puerto Rican. He introduces himself. He's still at the sill, so to speak, at the door when suddenly there's a loud noise, and a knife has fallen from his belt and it's on