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

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

We're clear on one thing, ... I support Freddy Ferrer.