Done. Mr. Bunker? we re talking about having one of the biggest bigots in america. Sammy davis! with a black man coming to his house. Mr. Davis, that s my daughter gloria standing over there. How do you do, gloria? and her husband mike. Hello, mike. No. I was tingling the whole time. One, two, three. Sammy davis jr. Kissed him on the cheek and he s sitting there going you re watching kind of a master class in reflecting humanity. It was revolutionary in a lot of ways. All in the family changed the way we think about society. That s the picture of sammy davis. Look what he writes here. To archie bunker. The whitest guy i know. Archie bunker was jawdropping. And you realized norman lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. That was my dad. My father used to tell my mother, jeanette, it s sunday, we re going out for chinks. Dad, we re going to go out for a chinese meal. Why do you have to say chinks? jim bowman our neighbor down the way, just sold his home to a family of colored
Black entrepreneurship. People call it the black wall street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. But white tulsans talked about greenwood as little africa or niggerland. Tulsa was a powder keg. Needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre. They were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. By dumping them in mass graves around the city. We have tulsans have an undetermined number who were murdered. It should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks this crime scene won t speak doesn t have the ears to hear. The ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. I came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. So that s been, i don t know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. There was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. And they would help you get your business started
People call it the black wall street. Wood home run greenwood was like this them all in one place. But whites talk about greenwood as little africa or niggerland. Tulsa was a powder keg. Meaning only something can set the community alight. 100, 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre. They were hate ing to get rid o the bodies by dumping it in mass graves around the city. We tulsians the number it murdered, should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks this crime scene is not going to speak doesn t have the ears to hear. The ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. I came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. So that s been, whoo, i don t know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. That was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. They will help you get your business started. People call it the black wall street. And when you read the editorials, they would also post event
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. We got to increase the peace. 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. 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 city s 106th mayor and the city s first africanamerican 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 as the nation s first elected black governor. Did you ever t
and i thought we d negotiate it down to like the rodeo. [ laughter ] you know what i mean? let him ride the horse. horses are weird. i thought we d end up there. but i never thought in a million years that cnn would let me go talk to the kkk. but they did. my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i ve made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don t understand. and now i m challenging myself to dig deeper. i m on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is the united shades of america. learning about america means sometimes reaching across the aisle. and this week i m reaching way across the aisle to the ku klux klan. hopefully, when i m done reaching i still have my hand. my first stop in this what the hell am i thinking tour is to meet with an arkansas leader of the kkk. according to kkk rhetoric, there s a new klan in town. they re no longer anti-black. they re just pro-white. and noth