In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.