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
Something that we need to change. [cheers and applause] thank you is a great to be here. Not where we wish we were. [laughter] but it is great to be here in the wonderful to be with paul again. We had quite an experience and i know lot of you think it must just be awful running for are your for president a Different Hotel and debate after debate with the primaries and the general and the adoring press. [laughter] but yet the truth is it is a magnificent experience because you get to see the country person by person, a statebystate. The people that make the news do something stranger or an unusual. But the people we could see were wonderful and it made me more optimistic about our future. If you get a chance to run for president , led to its. [laughter] [applause] there was no better person to be a vice president. [applause] if you take a shot at me. [laughter] we have some of room questions of the book you have written in and i have read it and i hope you have as well. End paul actuall
Criminal Justice System the cases will show if we do and lets see what happens. Host a history professor at ucla former chair of the history department. Where were you . March 1991 i had just moved to a los angeles i had just begun and as an assistant professor in january. I was living in faculty housing trying to figure out what l. A. Was all about and was coming from austin, the deep south and raised in virginia, the upper south to school in the northeast i wanted to know what the west was about the most racially diverse city in the world at the time possibly. I turn on my television the day after rodney king was beaten and i saw the videotape then two weeks later i see Latasha Harlins and i thought what have i done to come here . [laughter] when i left texas and came to california i expected something very different so these captured my imagination and immediately as a scholar of the africanamerican tradition. Host when did you start writing the book . Mr. D interview in 1993 with f
Sentence was pronounced one month before Latasha Harlins casein they would say be be the dog was formed to in the order was sent to jail for 30 days but Latasha Harlins was shot in the back of the head and the person did not receive anything at all the really resonated with the community so how could it dog be kicked and served jail time but a black girl could be killed and the person who killed her found guilty in not serving in the jail time and all . People also remember the owner because just recently back in august there was a rumor she had another Convenience Store in South Central and the community was outraged 17 adolf fliers of a child killer they went to boycott but as it turned out this woman was korea and and did own a store but does not the owner but just the idea she was back in the community had people ready to go to protest in boycott. Host teeeight nine is there a conflict or issue between Africanamerican Community and korean grocers . Guest theyre intent there was but
Guest i will not get into exactly but it is possible. I spoke to a lot of people and this is one of the questions i raised in the beginning of the book then why would they talk to me . And in some ways of reporting has borne out some of certain criticisms but why would somebody talk to me . The short answer is basically because theres a lot of disloyalty in clinton world it dole longer exists there is no longer clinton loyalty and ultimately that is bad it shows there is a weakness with clinton inc. They have to realize eventually that they need help benefit themselves and not the greater corporation. Host so going beyond this book dash u. N. 2016 . Guest maybe 50 50. She is the strongest candidate but he started the statement by talking about her poll numbers that are doing quite well but go talk to Rudy Giuliani and asked him or president gary hart. They dont mean so much. She is the strongest candidate but she has weaknesses but if she can recognize those and somehow try to fix them