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
did you ever think you d see the day when a black man would be elected governor of virginia? no, indeedy. i was born in the 30s. you know i didn t think nothing like that 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 wanted. last year s mayoral campaign dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal new york s deep racial divisions. now he finds himself scrambling to keep ahead of a situation that is becoming highly volatile. an angry crowd roamed through the crown heights section of brooklyn demanding justice after a motorist, a hasidic man, ran a red light and hit two black children, killing one and critically injuring the other. a hasidic student was stabbed to death hours after the accident. for several days, there was rioting. blacks attacking jews. i got the blame for that.
no, indeedy. i was born in the 30s. i didn t think nothing like that would 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 wanted. last year s mayoral campaign dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal new york s deep racial divisions. now he finds himself scrambling to keep ahead of a situation that is becoming highly volatile. an angry crowd roamed through the crown heights section of brooklyn demanding justice after a motorist, a hasidic man, ran a red light and hit two black children, killing one and critically injuring the other. a hasidic student was stabbed to death after the accident. for several days there was rioting. blacks attacking jews. i got the blame for that. we ve got to increase the peace. increase the peace.
now he finds himself scrambling to keep ahead of a situation that is becoming highly volatile. an angry crowd roamed through the crown heights section of brooklyn demanding justice after a motorist, a hasidic man, ran a red light and hit two black children, killing one and critically injuring the other. a hasidic student was stabbed to death after the accident. for several days there was rioting. blacks attacking jews. i got the blame for that. we ve got to increase the peace. increase the peace. 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 they want to hear and letting t them go to bed feeling it s