He's not stupid. He is working hard in the black and Hispanic communities, and I have to believe that in the black community, at least among the professional black politicians, they are not absolutely enthusiastic about Ferrer.

Not just seeing black and white or Hispanic or Latino. But, seeing you're just like me and it's ok.

Even in the first three nights of polling, when Mayor Bloomberg was being hammered for not participating in the Harlem debate, he was cruising along with a 19-point lead,

We're losing our diversity on that campus. The Hispanic population is growing. The black population is not. It's like our system is slowly becoming an all economically disadvantaged school system. We're losing our diversity, and that's not the real world.

I believe that there are certain contexts in black communities as a sign of belonging and an attempt to remember that history will be written away.

While we do not believe that the probability of a strike is as high as 50 percent, we do believe that it could be significant.