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
- we re out there. they have more foot posts out there, more police officers walking the beat. - hi, how are you? - hi. - hello. - if i were to put police on every corner in america, of course crime would go down. but the question is, at what cost? for many black people, it was a sense of community, a sense of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. - with a majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california, the easygoing tolerance of earlier decades has frayed. - at the ballot box, what we see in california, which is sort of 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 marched through downtown los angeles today to demonstrate against proposition 187, which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, non-emergency medical services, and welfare rolls. - we are as american as anybody else, and we deserve an education. -
the beat. hi, how are you? if i were to put police on every corner in america, of course crime will go down. but the question is at what cost? for many black people, it was a sense of community. a sense of dignity. a sense of respect from law enforcement. with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life in california, the easy going tolerance of earlier decades has frayed. at the ballot box, what we see in california which is sort of 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 marched through downtown los angeles today to demonstrate against proposition 187. which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, non-emergency medical services an welfare roles. we are as american as everyone else. and we deserve an education . opponents say it plays on voter prejudice against
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 many black people, it was a sense of community, a sense of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california, the easy-going tolerance of earlier decades has 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 marched through downtown los angeles today to demonstrate against prop tigs 187, which would bar immigrants from schools and welfare roles. we are as american as anybody else. we deserve an education. opponents say the emotionally divisive measure plays on voter prejudice against latinos. supporters say it will staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to califo
opponents say the emotionally divisive measure plays on voter prejudice against latinos. but supporters say it will help staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to california. it has become the issue in the governor race. pete wilson is pinning his re-election hopes on anti-immigrant sentiment. we re going to 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 bills against affirmative action attempting to address crime. all of it feels like secret agent talk for black people. there have been 3