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
- we re out there. they have more foot posts out there, more police officers walking the beat. - hi, how are you? - hi. - hello. - if i were to put police on every corner in america, of course crime would go down. but the question is, at what cost? for many black people, it was a sense of community, a sense of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. - with a majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california, the easygoing tolerance of earlier decades has frayed. - at the ballot box, what we see in california, which is sort of the leading edge of this trend, is a whole number of different types of initiatives that are meant to further contain communities of color. - tens of thousands of californians marched through downtown los angeles today to demonstrate against proposition 187, which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, non-emergency medical services, and welfare rolls. - we are as american as anybody else, and we deserve an education. -
orderly society. and that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionally targeted young black men as potential criminals. we re out there. they have more foot posts out there. more police officers walking the beat. hi. how are you? if i were to put police on every corner in america, of course crime would go down. but the question is, at what cost? for black people it was a sense of community, a sense of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california, the easygoing tolerance of earlier decades has frayed. at the ballot box, what we see in california, which is the sort of leading edge of this trend, is a whole number of different types of initiatives that are meant to further contain communities of color. tens of thousands of californians marched through downtown los angeles today to demonstrate against proposition 187, which would bar illegal
of confidence in the police department. the reason the morale of the police department is so low is one reason and one reason alone. david dinkins. it was easy to blame david dinkins for things that were not his fault and along comes giuliani with his pro cop stance. there was an audience for this sort of message as there often is. today the new york police are told to take a different tact. to clean up the neighborhood aggressively. to visibly improve the quality of life as a first step in crime reduction. it s the broken windows theory. this idea there were small quality of life crimes and if you could stop that, you would set up a very peaceful and orderly society. that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionately targeted young black men as potential criminals. they have more foot posts out there. more police officers walking