and told everybody why they had to vote. that s how fundamental it was. - my favorite group was a tribe called quest. mr. dinkins, would you please be my mayor? - mr. dinkins, would you please be my mayor? - like, i lived that, right? i mean, we loved david dinkins because david dinkins was us. he thought of the world in a different way. instead of being a new york that was about tribal warfare, it would be a new york that was about communities and accountability. - have we scraped and struggled to survive nine years of reactionary republican government in washington just to hand over our city to the very same voices? all: no! - this is in the reagan-bush years. so the things that are coming out of washington are seen as quite detrimental to the interests of cities in general, new york in particular. black new york, for certain, we weren t even part of the discussion. this was a community s effort to step back on the stage, claim some power, move our neighborhoods forward.
- what i did for new york donald trump will do for america. - i m gonna save you from them. it was a national version of rudy s 1993 campaign. - as mayor, i will lead the battle to take our streets back. - i want to build the wall. we need the wall. - to take our parks back and to take our subways back. - they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists. - from the violent criminals on the streets - we have some bad hombres here, and we re gonna get em out. all: dinkins must go. dinkins must go. dinkins must go. build that wall. build that wall. build that wall. - i think trump was the perfect candidate for the media. he s a celebrity. media loves celebrities. he knew how to work them and work the storylines that they wanted. - it s a rigged system. she is crooked hillary. that s why, folks. oh, is media dishonest. how dishonest are these people? - he gives you exciting rallies where he s insulting people. - ah. i don t know what i said. ah.
- and was elected for it. he saw this. - his campaign is falling apart. questions are being raised about him that are gonna require criminal investigation. - fast-forward now. here s donald trump. he s coming behind barack obama. the first black president, like rudy dealt with the first black mayor. - what i did for new york donald trump will do for america. - i m gonna save you from them. it was a national version of rudy s 1993 campaign. - as mayor, i will lead the battle to take our streets back. - i want to build the wall. we need the wall. - to take our parks back and to take our subways back. - they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists. - from the violent criminals on the streets - we have some bad hombres here, and we re gonna get em out. all: dinkins must go. dinkins must go. dinkins must go. build that wall. build that wall. build that wall. - i think trump was the perfect candidate for the media.
will do for america. - i m gonna save you from them. it was a national version of rudy s 1993 campaign. - as mayor, i will lead the battle to take our streets back. - i want to build the wall. we need the wall. - to take our parks back and to take our subways back. - they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists. - from the violent criminals on the streets - we have some bad hombres here, and we re gonna get em out. all: dinkins must go. dinkins must go. dinkins must go. build that wall. build that wall. build that wall. - i think trump was the perfect candidate for the media. he s a celebrity. media loves celebrities. he knew how to work them and work the storylines that they wanted. - it s a rigged system. she is crooked hillary. that s why, folks. oh, is media dishonest. how dishonest are these people? - he gives you exciting rallies where he s insulting people. - ah. i don t know what i said. ah. - he s threatening violence against protestors. - he s walking o
they thought they were putting david dinkins in his place. - everybody in the city knows that david dinkins is incapable of making a decision. - i did not expect the shocking de-evolution of rudy giuliani. and all of the nobility that was evident before he ran in 1989 was thrown out the window. he tried, in every way he could, to motivate white voters with racist appeals. - the original issues have become muddled in this fight. now, whether it s a battle between cops and the mayor, or blacks and whites, all sides have gone to marshal their supporters. - this race is different because dinkins now has a record to run on. he s not just the first african-american mayor. he s the first african-american mayor with a record that we can run against. certain reporters insisted on categorizing as the race race because, you know, that sells more papers.