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
so in some ways, the more obvious bi-racial identity that i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm, and white americans have to affirm, because they partake in a hybrid culture. you know, the truth of the matter is, is that american culture at this point, what is truly american, is black culture to a large degree. flip on the television set. and it s had a profound influence on this entire nation, and it has to be affirmed. in money matters this morning, wall street, where leaping stocks have investors jumping. we re going to turn the bull loose. ivan boesky: one of the great things about this nation is that we can seek profit. shriver: is money the number-one goal? yes.
than that they are black or brown and therefore suspect. - although i would not call the 90s the best of times, the worst of times, i see it as two train tracks that dangerously went further and further apart. - it s the time that america lost it s naiveté and took the veil off the underlying problems in american society. - i marched in 63, i marched in 95, and i m gonna keep on marching for justice and an even playing field for all of the american people. - it was a decade of realignment. we had some wins. we had some losses. but we redefined the collective culture of america. - in one generation, we have moved from denying a black man service at a lunch counter to being a serious contender for the presidency. - it was a seminal decade that paved the way for change in a way that maybe no other one did since the 60s. - you know, we re a part of a hybrid culture,
the lunch counter to being a serious contender for the presidency it was a seminal decade that paved the way for change in a way that maybe no other one did since the 60 s. we re part of a hybrid culture. deny that, so in some ways, the more obvious by racial identity that i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm, and white americans have to affirm because they partake in hybrid culture the truth of the matter is american culture at this point, what is truly american is black culture to a large degree. flip on the television set. and it s had a profound influence on thi s entire nation
hybrid culture, and we can t deny that. so, in some ways, the more obvious bi-racial identity that i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm. and white americans have to affirm because they partake in the hybrid culture. you know, the truth of the matter is that american culture at this point, what is truly american, is black culture to a large degree. flip on the television set, and it s had a profound influence on this entire nation, and it has to be affirmed. we are at a historic conundrum the likes of which i never thought i would see in my lifetime. we still do not know the outcome of yesterday s vote. sometimes it seems we share a continent but not a country. today thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil,