go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
peace. should people be frightened? people should wake up. it s 1991. we have talked at each other and about each other a long time. it is high time we started talking with each other. no justice, no peace. can t we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now, david dinkins is scheduled to take a public oath of office and become new york city s next mayor and the first african american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david being inaugurated on new year s day 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade. and the culmination of some of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s . people are seeing tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was worn? as the nation s first elected black governor. i was born in the 30s so you know i didn t think nothing like that was going to happen. after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wante
- it s a beautiful thing. like, number one in the whole country, that s a major accomplishment. - there was a lot of people experiencing success visibly. - the most prestigious award for literature has gone today to the american novelist toni morrison, the nobel prize. - i think i m the first african- american to win the nobel prize. - you are. - and that is astonishing. - suddenly, people who we looked to as heroes and as markers of dignity and grace and talent and success, suddenly, america was looking at them too. this represents a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility. - everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us. everybody wanted to see our movies. they wanted to listen to our music. they wanted to wear our clothes. and some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution in the early 60s and the 70s, but we won the war in pop culture in the 90s. - every city has cases of police brutality, but few are as brutal as t
country, that s a major accomplishment. there was a lot of people experiencing success, visibly. the most prestigious award for literature has gone today to the american novelist toni morrison, the nobel prize. i think i am the first african-american to win the nobel prize. you are. and that is astonishing. suddenly, people who we looked to as heroes and as markers of dignity and grace and talent and success, suddenly, america was looking at them, too. this represents a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility. everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us. everybody wanted to see our movies. they wanted to listen to our music. they wanted to wear our clothes. and some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution in the early 60s and the 70s, but we won the war in pop culture in the 90s. every city has cases of police brutality, but few are as brutal as the alleged attack against haitian immigrant abner loui
african-american to win the nobel prize. you are. and that is astonishing. suddenly people we looked to as heroes, suddenly america was looking at them too. this represents a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility. everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us. everybody wanted to see our movies, they wanted to listen to our music, they wanted to wear our clothes. and some people feel like we lost that war, the revolution in the early 60s and the 70s, but we won the war of pop culture in the 90s. every city has cases of police brutality. but few are as brutal as the alleged attack against haitian immigrant abner luima. nearly 2,000 demonstrators marched on the 70th precinct yesterday, where luima alleged police beat him and sodomized him. the attack comes at a time when new york has gained new respect for its plummeting crime rate. but complaints about police misconduct are soaring.