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Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

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

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.