>> they're running. see? this is the brilliance of the show. i say always keep them running. all the time running, run. run. run, yasmine, run like the wind. we have to ask ourselves when was the last time we talked about race with somebody of another race and if the answer is never. we're part of the problem. >> go home. >> it's like a wombomb. we're sitting on a bomb. >> you can have a black person killed 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 for a long time. it's high time we talked with each other. >> can we all get along? ♪ ♪ ♪

[ applause ] in about 20 minutes from now david dickons is now schuled step o from city hall and take public oath of office and become new york city 106th mayor and the first african-american mayor. >> i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. >> david dinkins being i august rated on new year's day is an auspicious start to the decade and 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 think you would see the day when a black man would be elected of virginia? >> no, indead. i was born in the '30s. i didn't think thnothing like tt would happen. >> the reality set in we made a step but we had not gotten to

where we wanted. >> he ran as the candidate that would heal new york's deep racial divisions. now he finds himself scrambling to keep ahead of a situation that's becoming highly volatile. >> an angry crowd roamed through the crown heights section of brooklyn demanding justice after a motorist ran a red light and hit two black children killing one and critically injurying the other. a student was stabbed to death after the accidents. >> for several days there was rioting. blacks attacking jews. . i got the blame for that. >> we've 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 they wanting them here and letting them go to bed feeling it's cool

and it's 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 pulled in all these different directions trying to prove he wasn't just a black mayor. >> the 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, unem ploployed and losin hope believe they have been abandoned by the larger society, and they are angry. >> new york city is symptommatic of what's happening and what described as a season of racial tension. it's complicated that you have african-americans dealing with stifling inequality and police

dealing with persons o color. rodney king exposed some of that when his beating was captured on camera. >> in los angeles, out rage grows over a video tape of police beating an unarmed motorist. >> explosive case. >> beating man just pulled over. >> amateur camera man 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 batter repeatedly. >> this is 1991 and things haven't changed as far as minority is concerned. if you're black and mexican, you gone 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 was like finally, they caught them. what's 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 ever

reported that anything has gone wrong. that suggests there's a deeper problem than a couple of bad apples. >> another widely publicized incident captured on video tape has become a focus for ethnic tensions between the black and asian popular. >> 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 thought the 15-year-old was going to steal some orange juice. there was a scuffle. she turned to leave the store. he produced a handgun and shot her in the back of the head. >> it should come so quickly after king and both should be on video. i think really had the sense for many people saying now we finally have evidence of what we've been complaining about. >> a jury convicted dew of voluntary manslaughter. judge joyce sentenced du to parole and community service but no jail time. >> she got away with murder.

>> you can have a black person killed with a video with eyewitnesss and this is what you'll get. >> stop kill our children. we want justice. >> the case has become a symbol of tensions between african-americans and the koreans who have become successful merchants in many of south ctr had been hoods. abandoned. lior stores became like the stand in. the place you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. >> why don't you open a market that we can use for our family? >> go back to korea. ♪ ♪ . >> rapper ice cube continues to draw heavy fire for the lyrics on hi new album. he threatens to born down the stores of korean grocer if they don't treat black customers with more deference. >> the album was in my

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will retire. he was the most liberal voice and the only black in court history. >> thurgood marshal was 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 hs minority, so much the better. >> what do you say to critics who say the only reason you're being picked is because you're black? >> i think a lot worst thing vs been said. i disagree with that, but i'll have to live with it. >> the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas. some are concerned about the basic chiization of sexual harassment dating back ten years. >> anita hill will enter. >> 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 plemeeting to hear evidence on sexual harassment charges that have been made against judge clarns thomas. >> he spoke about matters he had seen in films regarding women having sex with ananimals. >> this is being played out in front of a jury of all white men. >> this is a scircus and from m standpoint as a black american it's a high class lynching for uppity blacks. >> he decided to fight back which was designed to point out the burden of being black. >> the final count was 52-48. the closest successful confirma court history. >> no matter how difficult or painful the process has been, this is a time for healing in our country. >> it's not exactly a rage but it's definitely a much noted

trend. the whole new wave of black films with black stars by black directors. in new york a black film is being premiered every week. one now is boys in the hood directed by john singleton. >> i wanted to make what was voiced as i seen as a young black man growing up in los angeles. the los angeles police department was an occupying voice. >> i didn't do nothing. >> you think you tough, huh. >> four los angeles police officer who is appeared in that video tape of the rodney king beating went on trial today. >> defense attorneys claiming they couldn't get a fair trial in los angeles got the case moved to ventura county. >> it felt like the officers were being sent to a friendly venue and more friendly 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 officer. it's not about race. it's about king resisting. >> you didn't see him to have a weapon? >> yes, i did. >> what kind of a weapon did he have? >> it was his body. >> we're ready. we're well prepared to take care of any eventuality. >> find the defendant not guty. >> i d't think many people were expecting, not reporters. >> 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 most spontaneous reaction came from john singleton. >> we're sitting on a bomb.

>> they let these people off from the attempted murder of rodney king. i told everybody it's 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. there's a glass entrance and people were throwing rocks at the doors. i was inside with the police commissioners and they were searching for gates. the gates were unreachable because they were at a fund-raiser. >> i was standing in front of parker center trying to protect the building and my wife said are you watching television. they're beating a guy up in the middle of florence and normandy. >> in our living rooms we saw reginald deny smashed with a big block. >> dplst no police presence. >> it sent a message that this is a free for all. there's no police. there's nobody that will stop

you. people poured into the streets and the violence spraead from that. >> no justice. no peace. >> where's lapd? what's going on here? once you don't control something like that early on. it explodes and continues to explode and that's what happened here. ♪ >>artin luther king junior said that riots are the language of the unheard. in the song, they're saying this is how america going to hear you. we're going to take this thing over. we're going to put our foot to the pedal and drive the nation in the direction we need it to go in. ♪ bloods and crips on the same squad ♪ >> city wide curfew is in effect and the city -- >> i didn't realize the extent of the damage until i went home the next morning, and i couldn't

believe how many buildings were burned. it was going on all over the city. >> of 7,000 korean owned businesses, 1700 were ruined. >> don't people realize what they're doing is wrong. this is not the way to overcome racism. >> people remember the latasha harlins shooting and say you're the ones who come into our community and take our money and don't give anything back to the community. those korean stores were targeted and those shop owners were targeted. >> most koreans came in the late '70s and early '80s. you're still dealing with the first generation and in korea they all have to go through military service. they just became weekend commandos. >> these korean shop owners defended their property with bullets. >> all the gunshots lents out all their guns and just mobilize and the young guys told us to patrol the streets. we make our parents proud where

we could 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? >> rodney king is not a public spokesman. he's not an activist. he was a victim of a police beating. clearly he didn't know what to say. what is there to say? you beat the -- out of me and i'm still alive. [ bleep ] you. that's what you should say. he didn't say that. he said can we all get along, and a lot of people didn't want to get along. >> no justice, no peace.

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the death toll is now up to 43, equaling the record set by the detroit riots in 1967. now this city tries to recover. >> i grabbed the broom just to sweep because the ashes were everywhere. all of a sudden coming at me was channel 9. they go what are you doing. i say i'm sweeping. i don't know what else to do. half hour later, there was like three, five, 12 people with brooms. we saw you on the news. 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 what's left of their burned up neighborhood. >> there's another alternative for venting your anguish and frustration. >> it took three days to destroy it and it took three days to clean it up. we're very proud. ♪ ♪ i am black first >> with my survival into your total destruction then so be it. you feel that? >> i feel that way because i feel that america is giving black people no other choice. >> sister souljah is a rapper. she's an activist and she does not sanitize her message for the public. >>e all have to come togher and find some common ground. >> howo you find a common ground in an all white united

states senate? >> she rises in prominence and becomes much more vocally out spoken. 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 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 so souljah in front of jesse jackson so he's signaling he's not a typical lib ran. >> bill clinton eat soul food, party with black women, play the sax phone but when it comes to

domestic and foreign policy they make the same decisions destruct i to african-american people in this country and throughout the world. >> clinton is the first democrat to be elected since 1976. he's a governor from a southern state and he was representing himself as someone who could speak to the african-american community. >> our diversity can be a source of strength in a world that's ever smaller. where every one counts and everyone is a part of america's family. >> it's 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 this movement. they say what they felt 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 voice s have to be heard. the real way to have them heard is be holding the reigns of power. >> $2.4 million. that's great box office for a wednesday and that's what hoping day crowds paid out to see malcolm x. >> it's hard to mix the phenomenon called spike lee. spike lee is a black man who has reached the top of white culture. he's done it his way. >> malcolm x is impressive achievement in terms of not being one of these small independent e mmergent new voic connected to hip hop and a big i'm just going to object about 3:20. >> i asked if he was worried the movie would not appear to a broad audience. >> if it's good enough, people will come. the minute black artist start thinking about crossover, they start diluting the work,

watering it down and the work suffers. >> when we look at the john sing singleton's and the spikes, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories expressed in music, thee music, theater or cinema. >> the los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about understanding of the events that tore the city apart a year ago.n the riot and turne it into theater. twilight is one of the 26 people she become. >> that was the maexicans over there. that wasn't us. >> i thought of it as the explosion like a trunk or house that exploded and everything is all over the place. then as an artist it's this

incredible opportunity to put it together in way that makes sense. >> there's so many different kinds of us of americans now with so many different kinds of ideas about what is just and what is not. >> when ever you have a volatile period of racial strife in america there's a big pop culture surge of black voices. >> i'm hopeful and heartened and flattered that people want to come and see this which is about race, which is this big taboo. it's the uncomfortableness of being different, and that is being paid attention to makes me happy. so, your new prescription does have oh, like what?ects. ♪ you're gonna have dizziness, nausea, and sweaty eyelids. ♪ ♪ and in certain cases chronic flatulence. ♪

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good morning, everyone. homicide detectives in los angeles are telling the associated press that o.j. simpson's arrest is imminent in connection with the killing of his ex-wife and a friend. >> today my office filed murder charges against o.j. simpson for the deaths of nicole brown simpson and ronald lyle goldman. as of this time, approximately 3:00 p.m., no one knows where he is. >> we thought the evidence was

overwhelming. no doubt. this is the man who committed the crime. >> you're looking at a live picture right now. you believe that to be o.j. simpson down there below you? >> o.j. was a guy who felt like he was above race. he became the exceptional highlight negro. he had a blonde wife. lived in brentwood. he played the role well. >> if the person murdered them was a street thug it wound wouldn't have big a big case. you don't 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 he was demeanor was orchestrated by his legate. >> johnnie cochran was an icon.

>> the eyes of the world are focused here in losngeles where the much anticipated murder trial of o.j. simpson is about to begin. >> that trail of blood blthroug his own ford bronco and house is devastating proof of his guilty. >> one of the bloody gloves. >> the fact that blood appears on vital evidence is evidence of something far more sinister. >> the notion that the los angeles police department would untreat an african-american suspect in 1994 was far from outlandish and no one knew that better than johnnie cochran. >> you describe the appearance. >> it was moist. >> we knew that detective fuhrman had issues in his background. >> you have not spoken about black people as niggers in the

past ten years? >> that's what i'm saying. >> the o.j. simpson trial is in chaos and today's free for all could decide the ultimate outcome. >> the fuhrman tapes a ticking time wombomb in the simpson tri blew up today. >> it become evident that mark fuhrman has worked with a l.a. screen writer 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. >> they want to prove fuhrman is capable of manufacturing evidence that he planted bloody glove found at o.j. simpson's estate. >> detective fuhrman will you resume the witness stand. >> was the testimony you gave at the preliminary hearing completely truthful? >> i wish to assert my fifth amendment privilege. >> the defense tried,

successfully, to turn this case into a referendum on mark fur m furman, in particular and the lapd. >> no one would predicted it, the jury in the o.j. simpson trial has taken less than four hours to reach a verdict. >> would you please stand and face the jury. >> most people can tell you where they were sitting when they the verdict came down. >> we find the defendant, orenthal james simpson not guilty of murder in the felony of nicole brown simpson. >> the question wasn't 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.

>> nobody celebrating the fact that this horrific crime occurred. they are celebrating what feels like payback for rodney king even for latasha harlins, for conditions and a system that 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 this memphis. today's march is about black men taking renewed responsibility

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it was a show of force on the steps of new york city hall. 10,000 off duty cops banded together in protest. fed up and angry with the city they claim doesn't back them up. >> knock them all down. >> david dinkins pisses off the police because he talks about police review boards and accountability for police brutality. 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, that is why some people have an absence of confidence in the police department. >> the reason the morale of the

police department is one reason and one reasonable alone. david dinkins. >> in some ways it was easy to blame him for things that were not his fault and along comes rudy 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 tact. the clean up the neighborhood aggressively and visibly approve the quality of life is a first step in crime reduction. >> this idea there were small quality of life crimes, and if you could stop that, you would set up a peaceful and orderly society. that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionally targeted young black men as potential criminals. >> we're 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 this america, of course crime would go down but at what cost? it's a sense of dignity and sense of respect from law enforcement. >> with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life. in california it's frayed. >> at the ballot box we see in california is a whole number of different types of initiatives that are meant to further contain communities of color. t >> tens of thousands of californians march today to demonstrate against proposition 187. >> we are as american as anybody else. we deserve an education. >> opponents say the emotionally divisive measure played on prejudice against latinos. supporters say it will help staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to california. >> 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 under current of all different measures being held from 1994 on ward dealt with fear. fear of the other. of an expanded demographic. >> it's that kind of incident that has generated so much heat in california. >> 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's been 376 murders so far this year. in washington many gang and drug related. >> 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 we're making progress on the things you hired me to do. unless we deal with the ravages of crime and drug and violence, none of other things we seek to do will ever take us where we need to go. >> the crime bill game lock em up, throw the key away, three strikes you're out. in their zest to govern that 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 poor users. the drugs are identical but not in federal court. an arrest for five grams of crack brings five years in federal prison but you get the same five-year sentence for 500 grams of powder cocaine.

the law was designed to help clean up crack infested communities but 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. it's always people of color. you have this massive group of primarily black men going to prison. >> president clinton had a political strategy of saying, we're going to be tough on crime but we're going to be socially receptive. the democratic party started moving to the right playing the racial political lines. >> welfare as we know it is now history. president clinton signed made 61 years ago, federal aid to the nation's poorest. >> what happens is there are the unanticipated consequences. for example, they didn't take into example child care. if you put people back to work,

who is ultimately going to take care of the children left at home. it is these questions that exposed the weakness of the bill. >> i was doing something. not just sitting around doing nothing. >> so you wanted 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 the time than black people but there was a sense welfare is a handout and we can't do that. bill clinton changed welfare reform. >> more than 1 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

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astonishing. >> those we look at as dig anies, heroes, america was looking at them, too. this is a new understanding of diverse sti, a new understanding of american possibility. >> everybody wanted to be like us, be like us, listen to our music, wear our clothes. some people feel we lost that war, the revolution in the early '60s and '70s but we won the war on pop culture in the early '90s. >> every state has police brutality but few as like abner. >> 70,000 demonstrators marched on the precinct where police say he was beaten and sodomized, when new york is gaining new respect for plummeting crime rate. >> the plastic cups cover the shell casings for 44 shell

casings after police approached a west afternoon immigrant who may have been reaching for his keys. >> the '90s ends the way it starts, a spotlight of black bodies. two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side of violence. >> in our community we live with that fear, that it could be one of our brothers, our nephewses, one of our sons. >> dialo has become a martyr of some, a symbol of price paid in new york's war against crime. rudy giuliani has countered the outrage with carefully selected statistics. >> shots fired by police officers has decreased by 50%. >> and steadfast support for the nypd. >> the new york city police department is restrained. >> substantially more restrained. >> it's one of the most restrained police departments 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 kept happening. it was a reminder while the '90s represented so much growth, so much progress, we still had so far to go. >> in every society there's a fragile balance between order and freedom. in new york these days a number of blacks and hispanics in particular feel it's their freedom which has been sacrificed to achieve order. they are the ones being stopped, frisked, sometimes harassed for no other reason than they are black and brown, stlfr, 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. >> it's the time america lost its anyway naifty it took the

veil off. >> i'm going to keep on marching for justice and an even playing field for all of america. >> it was a decade of realignment. we had some wins, we had some losses, but we redefine the collective culture of america. >> one generation we have moved from denying a black man service to the lunch counter to being a serious contender for the presidency. >> it was a seminole decade that paved the way for change, in a way no other one did since the '60s. >> we're part of a hybrid culture and we can't deny that. so, in some ways the more obvious biracial identity that i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm. and white americans have to affirm because they partake in a hybrid culture. the truth of the matter is american culture at this point, what is truly american, is black

culture to a large degree. flip on the television set and it's had a profound influence on this entire nation. it has to be affirmed. now get all the news here in nashville but i my say something upsetting. >> doing topical comedy you look like you're more intelgts than you are. >> let's go to the news and see what we can unfurl is there. >> you have to be smarter than the first thought that everyone had. >> i'm being told i don't have an ear piece. >> if something happens at 3:00 in the afternoon and you're going on stage at 8:00 at night, you could turn that into a joke, that's part of the high. >> it would be weird if i didn't make a joke the day of a