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>> can we all get along? ♪ ♪ ♪ [ applause ] in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins is now scheduled to step out from city hall and take a 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 inaugurated on new year's day 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade. and a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, people are starting to see the 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, indeed. i was born in the '30s. i didn't think nothing like that would happen. >> after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set-in we had made a step, but we had not gotten all the way 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 iuring the other. a husitic 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. >> we will come together and do 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, unemployed and losing hope believe they have been abandoned by the larger society, and they are angry. >> new york city is symptomatic of what's happening in the nation in the early 1990s and what one writer described as a season of racial tension. it's complicated that you have african-americans dealing with stifling inequality and police injustice that's being perpetrated against communities of color. rodney king exposed some of that when his beating was captured on camera. >> in los angeles, outrage grows

over a video tape of police beating an unarmed motorist. >> explosive case involving white police officers -- >> beating 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 haven't anged as fars minority is concerned. if you're black and mexican, you gone have 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 korean communities in los angeles. >> two weeks after the rodney king video goes worldwide, a kung girl walks into a korean 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. >> the issue comes 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 du 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 killing 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 the poorest black neighborhoods. >> south los angeles had kind of been abandoned by many commercial entities. there weren't a lot of markets. liquor 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 fothlyrics on his new album "death certificate." 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 headphones for the whole year. cube was reflecting on his experiences and a lot of asians didn't have a voice.

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in court history. it is the defintive of anra. >> thurgood mahas lawyer on brown versus board of education. 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 he's 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 things have 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. but now some lawmakers have concerned about a claim 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 meeting to hear evidence on sexual harassment charges that have been made

against judge clarence thomas. >> he spoke about acts 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 all white men. >> this is a circus and from my standpoint as a black american it's a high class lynching for uppity blacks. >> charns thomas decided to fight back by invoking one of the points of history, which was to point out the burden of being black. >> the final count was 52-48. the closest successful confirmation vote in supreme 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 just about every week. among those drawing impressive reviews 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 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 certainly a 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 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. >> we find the defendant not guilty. >> this is a stunning verdict. i don't think many people were expecting this, certainly 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 boys in the hood director 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 frantically searching for gates. it turned out 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 denny sma wita big cement block. >> there's no police presence. they will not enter the area. >> 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 spread from

that. >> no justice. no peace. >> where's lapd? what the the hell'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. ♪ >> martin luther king, jr. 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 in los angeles at this hour, and still the fire -- >> i didn't realize personally 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 in some cases 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. >> allhe gun shops in curia town lent 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. but 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. we, the people, are tired of being surprised with extra monthly fees. we want hd. and every box and dvr. all included. because we don't like surprises.

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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. >> we need to get the youth to understand 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. i was very proud. ♪ ♪ i am african first ♪ i am black first >> if my survival means 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. >> whave to come together and findome coon ground. >> how do you find a common statesenate? all white united

>> 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 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 whites that he's not a typical liberal. >> bill clinton eats soul food, party with black women, play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy they

destructive 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 everyone 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. se, including the first black woman. >> most women credit anita hill with starting this political movement. they say the rage 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 voices 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 opening 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 emergent new voices a big budget ticket 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 singleton's 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 in 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. she's taken the riot and turned it into theater. twilight bay, that's my name. twilight is one of the 26 people to become this one woman tour de force. >> that was the mexicans 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. >> whenever you have a volatile period of racial strife in america, there's always 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. ♪ no, please, please, oh! ♪ (shrieks in terror) (heavy breathing and snorting)

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hollywood negro. he had a blonde wife. lived in brentwood. he played the role well. >> o.j. sitting in the passenger seat. >> 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 simpson's demeanor was orchestrated by his legal team. >> johnnie cochran was an icon. he had spent decadxposing police misconduct in the treatment of african-americans. >> 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. >> 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 unfairly treat an african-american suspect in 1994 was far from outlandish and no one knew that better than johnnie cochran. >> can you describe the experience? >> 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 bomb in the simpson trial blew up today. >> it becomes 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. >> the defense wants desperately to prove furman 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 furhman, 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 titled action, find 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. and at the end they decided they had not. >> nobodies celebrating the fact that this horrific crime occurred. they are celebrating what feels like payback for rodney king

even for latasha harlins, for a system and even 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. well, today's march is about black men taking renewed responsibility for themselves, their families and their communities. >> welcome to the million man march. >> there are big goings-on in

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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 because he talks about civilian review boards, talks about accountability for police brutality. 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 so low is

one reason and one reason 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. to 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 of 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. >> tens of thousands of californians march through downtown los angeles 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 undercurrent of all different measures being held from 1994 onward 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. >> another night of gun 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 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 became lock them 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 c 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 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. so suddenly 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 >> welfare as we know it is now history. president clinton signed the legislation that ends a government commitment made 61 years ago of federal aid to the nation's poorest. >> what ultimately happens is that there are the unanticipated consequences. they didn't take into account child care. if you are going to put people back to work, who will 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 when i didn't 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 becom racialized in a way in which we begin to hear all these stereotypes being trotted out as the lazy, dependent welfare queens. >> there are more white people on welfare than black people, but it's a handout, and we can't do that, so bill clinton returned with welfare reform. >> black in the cities and black elsewhere will be hit. >> 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 and his biggest legacy is the crime bill, and the welfare reform

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and suddenly, america was lo looking at them too. >> this is a new understanding of diversity, and possibility. >> everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us, and see our movies. listen to our music. they wanted to wear our clothes and some people feel that we lost that war, that revolution in the early '60s and '70s, but we won the war in pop culture in the '90s. >> everybody hears about police cases of brute ality, but few a as brutal as the one against this haitian immigrant. >> police beat him and sodomized him. the attack comes at a time when new york is gaining new respect for itslummeting crime rate, but complaints about pice musl misconduct are soaring. >> 31 bullets were fired by police after they confronted a

22-year-old west african immigrant who may have been reaching for his keys. >> the '90s ends the way it stars with a spotlight on violence against black bodies. two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side of state violence were. >> in our community, we lived with that fear that it would be one of our brothers or nephews or sons, and i just wish everyone could understand. >> he has become a marcher to some. a symbol in war against crime. carefully selected statistics -- >> shots fired by police officers that has decreased. >> steadfast support for the nypd. >> it's among the most restrained police departments in the country. >> many people thought even though times had progressed, that 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 while the '90s represented so much growth and progress, we had so much further to go. >> there is a fragile balance between order and freedom. in new york these guys a number of blacks and hispanics in particular feel it's their freedom which has been act fiesfie sacrificed to achieve order. they are the ones being stopped, frisked for no other reason they are black or brown and otherwise 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 that america lost its naivete, and took the veil off the underlying problems in american society.

i'm going to keep on marching for justice in an enplaying for all the american people. >> 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 the being a serious contender for the presidency. >> it was after seminal decade that paved the way for change in a way that may be no other since the '60s. >> we were part of a hybrid culture, and we can't deny that, and 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 hybrid culture. the truth of the america is american culture is black culture to a large degree.

flip on the television set and it's had a profound influence on this entire nation, and it has to be affirmed. president dlint clinton said he is pleased in his first year in office, but not a bit happy about how it's ending. >> whitewater is not going to go away. >> the republicans smelled blood. >> the seismic shift to the right in the political landscape of america tonight. >> his re-election campaign is heating up. >> clinton has won a second term as president of the united states. >> political trouble for the president. >> possibility of impeaching the president must now be addressed.