In 1988, he said, blacks represented 66 percent of Westchester County drug arrests.

In 1950, blacks represented 12.2% of Kansas City's population.

In 1992, blacks represented 37% of those on welfare; by 2002, this number increased slightly to 38%.

Non-Hispanic whites make up 12 percent and blacks represent about 10 percent.

In demographic terms, that is as it should be: blacks represent nearly 80 percent of the country's population.

In that decade, blacks represented just under 10 percent of the American population.

Yet blacks alone represent 15 percent of the age group that usually enrolls in college, he said.

He criticized the idea that it promotes diversity, saying that one black cannot represent all.

The Mayor renewed his arguments that prominent blacks do not represent the views of ordinary black citizens.

With 16 members now, blacks represent 32 percent of the board.