>> when mayor dinkins went to crown heights to try to ease tensions, he was booed and forced to retreat. >> i think that too often black elected officials have conned white america telling them what they want to hear and letting them go to bed feeling it's cool. and it's not cool. >> those things necessary to protect everyone. >> there was no one truth. the blacks, of course, called that a murder. the jews called it an accident. there were two completely different realities. >> david dinkins was trying to please everybody, and he was being pulled in all these different directions trying to prove that he wasn't just a black mayor. >> your mayor works for you. you have commission brown working for you guys. >> similar tensions are simmering in cities across america. legions of young black men and women, unemployed and losing hope, believe they have been abandoned by the larger society, and they are angry. >> new york city is symptomatic of what's happening in the