Rep. Gregory Meeks sees racism in Aqueduct racino criticisms of Rev. Floyd Flake, Darryl Greene

"The only two people who come from the community and the only two people of color are singled out," Meeks (D-Queens) told the Daily News in a recent interview.

Asked if the controversy over their involvement with Aqueduct Entertainment Group was racially motivated, Meeks replied: "It seems to me if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck ..."

AEG brought in the politically influential Flake, who once held Meeks' congressional seat, and Greene to act as liaisons to the southeast Queens community.

Greene was booted after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Speaker (D-Manhattan) balked over his 1999 guilty plea to stealing $500,000 from city agencies.

Meeks said Greene's detractors were "trying to prevent a local person of color from trying to be part of the process."

Flake, in an Op-Ed published in a Queens newspaper yesterday, defended the AEG deal as an "employment and development engine" that will stand up to scrutiny.