Were sitting on a bomb. You can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what youll get. This is a revolution. We got to increase the peace. Should people be frightened . I think people should wake up. Its 1991. Wake up. We have talked at Each Other and about Each Other for a long time. Its high time we all began talking with Each Other. Can we all get along . [ applause ] 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 Citys 106th mayor and the citys first africanamerican mayor. I intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. David dinkins being inaugurated on new Years 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 as the nations first elected black governor. Did you ever think youd see the day when a Black Man would be elected governor of virginia . No, indeedy. I was born in the 30s. I didnt 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 years mayoral campaign dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal new yorks 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. Weve 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 white america telling them what they want to hear and letting them go to bed feeling its cool. And its not cool. Those things necessary to protect everyone. There was No One truth. The blacks, of course, called that a murder. The jews called it an accident. There were two completely different realities. David dinkins was trying to please everybody, and he was being pulled in all these different directions trying to prove that he wasnt just a black mayor. Your mayor works for you. You have Commission Brown working for you guys. Similar tensions are simmering in cities across america. Legions of young black men and women, unemployed and losing hope, believe they have been abandoned by the larger society, and they are angry. New York City is symptomatic of whats happening in the nation in the early 1990s and what one writer described as a season of racial tension. It really is complicated by the fact that you have africanamericans dealing with stifling Poverty And Inequality and Police Injustice being perpetrated against people of color. Rodney king exposed some of that when his beating was captured on camera. In Los Angeles, outrage grows over a videotape of Police Beating an unarmed motorist. Explosive case involves white Police Officers. Beating a man just pulled over. Amateur cameraman recorded it all. We here in Los Angeles was just struck by the maliciousness of what we saw. The inhumane sense of this person struggling on the ground being battered repeatedly. This is 1991, and things havent changed as far as minority is concerned. If youre black and mexican, you are going to have a problem with law enforcement. City officials have received thousands of angry Phone Calls from across the united states. When the Rodney King video hit, everybody in the hood was like, okay, finally, they caught them. Whats going to happen now . Now that they have shown a lynching on tv. Multiple officers from multiple agencies witnessed this and not one single officer that night ever reported that anything had gone wrong. That to me suggested that theres a deeper problem than just a couple of bad apples. Another widely publicized incident captured on videotape has become a focus for ethnic tensions between the black and korean communities in Los Angeles. Two weeks after the Rodney King video goes worldwide, a young girl walks into a Korean American owned Grocery Store to get a bottle of orange juice. Security camera caught the dispute. Store owner soon Ja Du thought 15yearold Latasha Harlins was going to steal some orange juice. There was a scuffle. Harlins struck du then turned to leave the store. Du produced a Handgun And Shot harlins in the back of the head. That it should come so quickly after king and both should be on video, i think really had the sense for many people of saying, okay, now we finally have evidence of what weve been complaining about. A jury convicted du of voluntary manslaughter. Judge Joyce Carlin sentenced du to Parole And Community service but no jail time. He got away with murder. You can have a black person killed with a video with eyewitnesss and this is what youll get. Stop killing our children. We want justice. The case has become a symbol of tensions between africanamericans and the koreans who have become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. South Los Angeles had been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities. There werent many markets. So liquor stores became like the standin, the place you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. Why dont you open a market that we can use for our family . Go back to korea. Every time i want to go i got to go down to the store make a mad enough to Rapper Ice Cube continues to draw heavy fire for the scandalous lyrics on his new album death certificate. On the album, he threatens to burn down the stores of korean grocers if they dont treat black customers with more deference. The album was in my headphones for the whole year. Cube was reflecting on his experiences with koreans and a lot of asians didnt have a voice at that time. There was no way to talk back. Well burn your store right down to a crisp then well see ya in the black korea i just tell whats real. If the truth hurts, say ouch. I aint sorry about it at all. It has 48 hour protection. And a plantbased moisturizer. That cares for your skin. Odor protection that works new dove men plantbased care. Its another day. And anything could happen. And a plantbased moisturizer. That cares for your skin. It could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. 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Thurgood marshall was the lawyer on brown versus board of education. He was on the Supreme Court to give a voice to black americans. I kept my word to The American people and to the senate by picking the best man for the job on the merits. The fact hes minority, so much the better. Judge, what do you say to critics who say the only reason youre being picked is because youre black . I think a lot worse things have been said. I disagree with that, but ill have to live with it. The senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme Court Nomination of Clarence Thomas. But now some lawmakers are concerned about the accusation of Sexual Harassment Dating back ten years. Anita hill enters the room now. Democrats were going to challenge Clarence Thomas on the basis of his conservative views. His race was not going to be an issue. But i think the Anita Hill allegations brought race back into the picture. The Senate Judiciary Committee is meeting to hear evidence on Sexual Harassment charges that have been made against Judge Clarence thomas. He spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals. This seemingly personal matter is being aired out in front of this jury of allwhite men. And it created quite a spectacle. This is a circus, and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as im concerned, it is a Hightech Lynching for uppity blacks. Clarence thomas decided to fight back by invoking one of the most painful elements of black history, which was designed to point out the burden of being black. The final count was 5248. The closest successful Confirmation Vote in Supreme Court history. No matter how difficult or how painful the process has been, this is a time for healing in our country. Its not exactly a rage but its definitely a much noted trend. The whole new wave of black films with black stars by black directors. Right now in new york a new black film is being premiered just about every week. Among those drawing impressive reviews is Boyz N the hood directed by john singleton. I really wanted to make a film that voiced what i had seen growing up as a Black Man in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Police department, i mean, they were kind of occupying force. It really became a war zone. I didnt do nothing. You think you tough, huh. Four Los Angeles Police Officers who appeared in that videotape of the Rodney King beating went on trial today. Defense attorneys claiming they couldnt get a fair trial in Los Angeles got the case moved to more conservative neighboring ventura county. It felt like the officers were being sent to a very friendly venue and certainly more friendly venue than a downtown l. A. Jury would have been. The defense picked apart the videotape and every image was turned around to say see where king is threatening the Police Officers. Its not about race. Its about king resisting. You didnt see him to have a weapon, did you . Yes, i did see him to have a weapon. What kind of a weapon did mr. King have . It was his body. Were ready. Were well prepared to take care of any eventuality no matter what it might be. All right, the clerk will read the verdicts. We the jury find the defendant Stacey Koon not guilty of the crime of assault this is a stunning verdict. I dont think many people were expecting this, certainly not reports. It struck us all with great disgust because we thought that by those pictures, even fair minded people would know the injustice of what happened to him. There is no justice. There is no justice. The first and perhaps most spontaneous reaction came from Boyz N the Hood Director john singleton. Its like a bomb. Were sitting on a bomb. They let these people off from Attempted Murder of Rodney King. I told everybody, listen, its going to go down. No justice, no peace. I was at Parker Center, which is the Police Headquarters at the time, when the verdicts were announced. The crowd began to gather. It began to turn more and more violent. Parker center has a Glass Entrance and people were throwing rocks at the doors. I was inside with the Police Commissioners and they were frantically searching for gates. Gates was unreachable because he was at a fundraiser. I was standing in front of Parker Center trying to protect the building, and my wife said, are you watching television . Theyre beating a Guy Up in the middle of florence and normandy. Terrible, terrible pictures. In our living rooms, we saw in realtime Reginald Denny smashed with the big cement block. And theres no Police Presence down here. They will not enter the area. It sent a message to everybody else that that is a free for all. There are no police. Theres nobody thats going to stop you. So people poured into the streets. And the Violence Spread from that. No justice. No peace. Wheres lapd . What the hells going on here . Once you dont control something like that early on, it explodes and continues to explode. And thats what happened here. Martin Luther King jr. Said that riots are the language of the unheard. In the song, theyre saying this is how america going to hear you. Were going to take this thing over. Were going to put our foot to the pedal, and were going to drive this nation in the direction we need it to go in. Bloods and crips on the same squad time to Rob And Mob dusk to dawn citywide curfew is in effect in Los Angeles at this hour and still the fires burn. I didnt realize personally the extent of the damage until i went home the next morning. And i couldnt believe how many buildings were burned. It was going on all over the city. Of 7,000 korean owned businesses, 1,700 were ruined. Dont people realize what theyre doing is wrong. This is not the way to overcome racism. People remember the Latasha Harlins shooting and say youre the ones who come into our community and take our money and dont give anything back to the community. Those korean stores were targeted and in some cases those Shop Owners were targeted. Most koreans came in the late 70s and early 80s. Youre still dealing with the first generation and in korea they all have to go through military service. So they just became weekend commandos. These korean Shop Owners defended their property with bullets. All the Gun Shops in Korea Town lent out all their guns and they just mobilized. And the young guys, they told us just to patrol the streets. We could make our parents proud and stick up for our community. It turn into the biggest Rebellion Riot in the history of the united states of america since the civil war. For the first time since the verdict, the world heard from Rodney King. People, i just want to say, you know, can we all get along . Can we get along . 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We came out to help you. By 6 00 in the afternoon, there were thousands of people. As armed National Guard troops deployed, these people armed themselves with Trash Bags and brooms to begin the overwhelming job of cleaning up whats left of their burned up neighborhood. We need to get the youth to understand that theres another alternative for venting your anguish and your frustration. It took three days to destroy it and it took three days to clean it up. I was very proud. I am black first i want whats good for me and black people first if my survival means your total destruction, you really feel that . Yes, i feel that way only because i feel america is giving black people no other choice. Sister souljah is a rapper. Shes an activist and she does not sanitize her message for the public. We all have to come together and find some common ground. How do you find a common ground in an all white united States Senate . She rises in prominence and becomes much more vocally outspoken, a number of her statements are held up as an example of black hatred of white people. Sister souljah told the Washington Post about a month ago, and i quote, if black people kill black people every day, why not have a week we can kill white people. In running for office, the democratic Candidate Bill clinton decided to seize on that particular sentence and pull it out of context. If you took The Words white and black and reverse them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech. Bill clinton denounced Sister Souljah in front of jesse jackson, so hes signaling to whites that he is not a typical liberal. I think that Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to african people in this country and throughout the world. The next president of the united states of america. Governor Bill Clinton. Clinton is the first democrat to be elected since 1976. Hes a governor from a southern state, and he was representing himself as someone who could speak to the africanamerican community. Our diversity can be a source of strength in a world thats ever smaller. Where everyone counts and everyone is a part of americas family. Its a new day in america. Six women will serve in the new u. S. Senate, including the first black woman. Most women credit Anita Hill with starting this political movement. They say the rage they felt at her treatment by the Senate Judiciary Committee fueled their campaigns. It was a hopeful time when women began seizing some of these offices. It sensitized women and minorities to the fact that our voices have to be heard. And the real way to have them be heard is to be holding the reins of power. 2. 4 million. Thats great Box Office for a wednesday, and thats what Opening Day crowds paid out to see Malcolm X. Its hard to miss the phenomenon called spike lee. Spike lee is a Black Man who has reached the top of white culture. Hes done it his way. Malcolm xs really impressive achievement in terms of not being one of these small, independent, emergent new voices connected to hiphop, but instead a bigbudget 3 hour 20 Minute Epic about a very important africanamerican figure. I asked if he was worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience. If its good enough, people are going to come. The minute black artists start thinking about crossover, start diluting the work, watering it down and the work suffers. When we look at the John Singletons and the spikes, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. In Los Angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. Her name is anna devear smith. And shes taken the riot and turned it into theater. Twilight bay, thats my name. Twilight is 1 of 26 people deavere becomes in this one Woman Tour de force. That wasnt us over looting in the koreans. That was the mexicans over there. That wasnt us. I thought of the Los Angeles riots as like this explosion of like a trunk or a house that exploded and everythings all over the place. Then as an artist its this incredible opportunity to put it together in way that makes sense. Theres so many different kinds of us, of americans now, with so many different kinds of ideas about what is just and what is not. Whenever you have a volatile period of racial strife in america, theres always a big Pop Culture Surge of black voices. 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He played the role very well. O. J. Is sitting in the Passenger Seat with a gun pointed at his own head. If the person who murdered two white people was a street thug, it wouldnt have been this big case. But it was this kind of icon. We understand o. J. Is in custody. You dont want to believe that this kind of person would have done this. How do you plead to counts one and two . Absolutely, 100 not guilty. Legal analysts say simpsons demeanor was orchestrated by his newly expanded legal team that now includes johnnie cochran. Johnnie cochran was an icon a hero to the l. A. Black community because he had spent decades exposing Police Misconduct in the treatment of africanamericans. The eyes of the world are focused here in Los Angeles where the much anticipated Murder Trial of o. J. Simpson is about to begin. That trail of blood through his own Ford Bronco and into his house in rockingham is devastating proof of his guilt. Clark shows the jurors pictures of the death scene, bloody footprints, the knit cap, one of the bloody gloves. The fact that blood mysteriously appears on vital pieces of evidence is devastating evidence of something far more sinister. The notion that the Los Angeles Police Department would unfairly treat an africanamerican suspect in 1994 was far from outlandish, and No One knew that better than johnnie cochran. Can you describe the appearance of the glove, sir . A dark Leather Glove that appeared to be moist or sticky. We knew early on that Detective Fuhrman had issues in his background. You say on your oath that you have not spoken about black people as niggers in the past ten years . Thats what im saying, sir. The o. J. Simpson trial is in chaos and todays free for all could decide the ultimate outcome. The Fuhrman Tapes a Ticking Time Bomb in the Simpson Trial blew up today. It becomes evident late in the trial that Mark Fuhrman has worked with a l. A. Screenwriter and made tapes of what Police Life is like. The defense offered 41 examples of fuhrman using The Word [ bleep ]. Something he swore on the Witness Stand he has not done in the last ten years. The defense wants desperately to prove that fuhrman is capable of manufacturing evidence to bolster their claim that he planted the bloody glove found at o. J. Simpsons estate. Detective fuhrman will you resume the Witness Stand. Was the testimony you gave at the preliminary hearing in this case completely truthful . I wish to assert my Fifth Amendment privilege. The defense tried, successfully, to turn this case into a referendum on Mark Fuhrman in particular and the lapd in general. No one would predicted it, the jury in the o. J. Simpson trial has taken less than four hours to reach a verdict. Mr. Simpson, would you please stand and face the jury . Most people can tell you where they were sitting when that verdict came down. We the jury in the above had been entitled action find the defendant Orenthal James Simpson not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of Penal Code 187a, a felony upon Nicole Brown Simpson, a human being as charged in count one of the information. Oh, my word. The Question Wasnt whether o. J. Was guilty or innocent, the question was whether the jury had been convinced Beyond A Reasonable Doubt that the prosecution had sustained its burden. At the end, they decided they had not. Nobodys celebrating the fact that this horrific crime occurred. Theyre celebrating what feels like payback for Rodney King, even for Latasha Harlins, for a system and for conditions that have just ignored them. O. J. Is innocent free as a bird. In recent weeks every one of us have been made aware of a simple truth. White americans and black americans often see the same world in drastically different ways, ways that go beyond and beneath the Simpson Trial and its aftermath which brought these perceptions so starkly into the open. Almost 30 years ago, dr. Martin Luther King took his last march in memphis. Todays march is about black men taking renewed responsibility for themselves, their families and their communities. Welcome to the million Man March there are big goingson in the nations capital today. This is an enormous crowd of black american men and boys and, yes, even some women. I remember the power of stepping out of the d. C. Metro and seeing this sea of faces of color on the national mall. The million Man March was called for by louis farrakhan, who is the head of the nation of islam. The basic reason this was called is for atonement and reconciliation. Hes always been a controversial figure because of his antisemitic utterances but the march becomes bigger than louis farrakhan. Why do we march . Because were trapped for second class schools and First Class jails. Weve been locked up, weve been brutalized. This became the first Mass Expression we could make together that we need to be regarded and respected and heal this racial breach. We arent all drug dealers. We can come together and have a positive message. When you start standing with our mothers, when you stick it out with your families, when you start mentoring our young, then we can build a new nation of strong people. I had to get out of that kind of like time Bomb Mentality that growing up in south central l. A. Gives you. I think the march gave me a sense of hope that things could get better. Long live the million Man March. This is the sound of change. The sound of A Thousand sighs of relief. And the sound of a company watching out for you. This is the sound of low Cash Mode from pnc bank, giving you multiple options and at least 24 hours to help you avoid an overdraft fee. 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And so we see predominantly white Police Officers screaming over racial slurs at the black mayor. That kind of language, racial slurs, separate and apart from the destruction of property and whatnot, that is why some people have an absence 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. In some ways it was easy to blame David Dinkins for things that werent 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 being taught to take a different tack. To clean up the neighborhood aggressively, to visibly improve the quality of life as the first step in crime reduction. Its the broken windows theory. This idea that 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 disproportionally targeted young black men as potential criminals. Were out there. They have more Foot Posts out there. More Police Officers walking the beat. Hi. How are you . If i would have 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, 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 is frayed. At the ballot box, what we see in california, which is 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 march today to demonstrate against proposition 187. Which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, nonemergency services, and welfare roles. We are as american as anybody else. We deserve an education. Opponents say the emotionally divisive measure plays on prejudice against latinos. Supporters say it will staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to california. It has become the issue in the governors race. Pete wilson is pinning his reelection hopes on antiimmigrant sentiment. Were going to take back california for the working, taxpaying 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. Its that kind of incident that has generated so much heat in california where theres a controversial ballot issue. Proposition 209 would end all Race And Gender considerations in public education, Government Contracts and hiring. You begin to see all these policies and bills against Affirmative Action attempting to address crime. 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 related. Another night of Gang Violence in Los Angeles. Two young men killed. In chicago eight people murdered since friday. Violent crime is an issue that haunts the president and one he plans to address with new proposals next month. You gave me this job, and were making progress on the things you hired me to do. But unless we deal with the ravages of crime and drug and violence, none of the other things we seek to do will ever take us where we need to go. The Crime Bill became lock em up, throw the key away, three strikes youre out. In their zest to govern and we can stop this, it was an overreach. The bill, the penalties for powdered Cocaine And Crack were different. Powder cocaine, a drug of choice among mostly middle and upper class abusers. Crack cocaine, a cheaper, faster high for its mostly poor users. Chemically the drugs are virtually identical but not in federal court. An arrest for five grams of crack brings a mandatory five years in federal prison but you get the same fiveyear sentence for 500 gram of powder cocaine. The law was designed to help clean up crack infested communities but instead has become another wedge between blacks and whites. All these absurd laws are putting people in prison for lengthy terms and we all know the imbalances of the way people imprisoned, who gets incarcerated for the longer periods of time. Its always people of color. Suddenly you have this massive group of primarily black men going to prison. President clinton had a political strategy of saying, were going to be tough on crime but were going to be socially receptive. And the democratic party started moving to the right, playing the racial political lines. Welfare as we know it is now history. President Clinton Today signed the legislation that ends a Government Commitment made 61 years ago of federal aid to the nations poorest. What ultimately happens is that there are the unanticipated consequences, for example, they didnt take into account child care. If youre going to put people back to work, who is ultimately going to take care of the children that are left home . And it was these questions that exposed the weakness of the bill. I tried to go to work, but i really didnt have child care. I was in school. I was doing something, not just sitting around doing nothing. So you want to work . Of course. Welfare becomes racialized in a way in which we begin to hear all of these stereotypes being trotted out about the lazy dependent welfare queens. There are more white people on welfare at that time than there were black people, but we cant do that. So again, Bill Clinton turned on his base, with welfare reform. 14 Million americans, mainly black in the cities, white elsewhere, will be hit. More than A Million children will be thrown into poverty. There is a significant story of people who have fallen below the radar screen. And people care less and less, about what may actually happen to those people. Clinton is an extraordinarily complicated figure, in his biggest legacies, the crime Bill And Welfare reform, are going to be disproportionately impacting lowincome, africanamerican communities. Do i think that he was actively trying to do this . No. It was politically expedient. And it helps him win reelection. We have committed this night to continuing our journey. To give the young people here and those all across america, the america they deserve. With armor all, a little bit of this. Protects you. From a lot of that. Keep your Car Cleaner longer. Armor all extreme shield plus ceramic. With visible, you get unlimited data for as little as 25 a month. But when you bring a friend, you get a month for 5. So im bringing everyone within 12 degrees of me. Bam, 12 months of 5 wireless. Visible. 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Its a beautiful thing. Like, Number One in the whole l whole country. Thats a major accomplishment. It was a lot of people experiencing success, visibly. The most prestigious award for literature has gone today to The American novelist, tony morrison. The Nobel Prize. I am the first africanamerican to win the Nobel Prize and that is astonishing. Suddenly, people who we look to as heroes and as markers of Dignity And Dwras and talent and success. Suddenly, america was looking at them, too. This represents a new understanding of diversity. A new understanding of american possibility. Everybody wanted to be like us. Everybody wanted to talk like us. Everybody wanted to see our movies. They wanted to listen to our music. They wanted to wear our clothes. And some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution, in the early 60s and the 70s but we won the war in the Pop Culture in the 90s. Few are as brutal as the alleged attack against haitian immigrant. Nearly2,000 demonstrators marched on the 70th Precinct Yesterday where he says police beat him and sodomized him. The attack comes, at a time when new york has gained new respect for its plummetingcrime rate. But complaints about Police Misconduct are soaring. Reporter the plastic cups covered the shell casings from 41 bullets fired by police, after they confronted dialo, 22yearold west african immigrant who may have been reaching for his keys. In many ways, the 90s ends the way it starts with a spotlight on violence against black bodies by law enforcement. Diallo. Two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side of State Violence were. In our community, we live with that fear. That it could be one out of our brothers or one of our nephews or one of our sons. I just wish everybody could understand. Reporter a symbol of a price paid in new Yorks War against crime. Rudolph giuliani has countered the outrage with carefullyselected statistics. Shots fired by Police Officers has decreased by 50 . Reporter and steadfast support for the nypd. The New York City Police Department is the most restrained. Substantially more restrained. Its among the most restrained Police Department in the country. Many people thought even though times had progressed, in other ways, some of the images were not that much different than images people might have associated with the 50s and 60s. We thought maybe we had gotten past all this stuff. But it keeps happening. And it was a reminder that, while the 90s represented so much growth, so much progress. We, still, had so much further to go. In every society, there is a fragile balance between order and freedom. In new york, these days, a number of blacks and hispanics, in particular, feel that its their freedom which has been sacrificed to achieve order. They are the ones being stopped, frisked, sometimes harassed, for noother reason 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. Its the time that america lost its naivety. And took the veil off the underlying problems in american society. I marched in 63. I marched in 95 and i am going to keep on marching for an even playing field for all 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 are part of a hybrid culture. And we cant deny that. So, in some ways, the more Obvious Biracial identity that i have to affirm, africanamericans, also, have to affirm. And whiteamericans have to affirm because they partake in a hybrid culture. You know, the 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 its had a profound influence on this entire nation. And it has to be affirmed. We will be doing for tv what fm did for radio. There are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. We like to call them tastefully smutty. What are your dreams . To rule the world. Michael jackson is the man of the 80s. All beat and talk. Its rap music. Heavy metal. It glorifies sex and violence. It hates authority and adolescent boys love it. This weird, beastly presentation, that was birthed in the pit of hell