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
Judicial whiplash over Texas’s controversial new immigration law has delayed its implementation, but potentially not its political effects. S.B. 4 is the latest in a string of local- and state-level immigration crackdowns that goes back at least to California’s Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot measure supported by then-Gov. Pete Wilson (R) that deputized individual Californians…
This hardening by Latinos doesn't surprise me one bit. In a state where an estimated 83% of Latinos are of Mexican heritage, the changing faces of illegal immigration are drawing less and less empathy. I've seen this within my own family.
but supporters say it will help staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to california. - it has become the issue in the governor s race. pete wilson is pinning his reelection hopes on anti-immigrant sentiment. - we are gonna take back california for the working, tax-paying families of this state. - the main undercurrent of all of the different measures that were being held from 1994 onward dealt with fear, fear of the other, of an expanding demographic. - it s that kind of incident that has generated so much heat in california, where there s a controversial ballot measure to end preference for minorities. - proposition 209 would end all race and gender considerations in public education, government contracts, and hiring. - you begin to see all these policies and all these bills against affirmative action in attempting to address crime, and all of it feels like secret agent talk for black people. - there have been 376 murders so far this year in washington, many of them gang- and drug-