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 bomb. we're sitting on a bomb. >> you can have a black person killed on 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 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 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, 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 that we 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 injuring 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, 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 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 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. >> 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 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 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 neighborhoods. >> south central had been abandoned. 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 for the lyrics on his 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 headphones for the whole year. cube was reflecting on his experiences and a lot of asians didn't have a voice. there was no way to talk back. ♪ we'll burn your store right down to a crisp ♪ ♪ then we'll see ya >> i just tell what's real. if the truth hurts, say ouch. i ain't sorry about it at all.

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supreme court justice thurgood marshal announced he will retire. he was the most liberal voice and the only black in court history. it is the definitive end of an era. >> 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 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. some are concerned about the accusation of sexual harassment dating back ten years. >> anita hill will enter. >> democrats were going to challenge him on the conservative views. his race was noft 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 matters he had seen in films regarding women having sex with animals. >> this is being played out in front of a jury of all white men.

and it created quite a spectacle. >> this is a circus and from my standpoint as a black american it's a high class lynching for uppity blacks. >> he decided to fight back by evoking one of the most painful elements of black history, which was designed 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 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. >> we find the defendant not guilty. >> i don'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 denny smashed with a big block. >> there's 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 spread 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.

♪ >> martin 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 leant 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. discover card. hey. what can you tell me about your new social security alerts? oh! we'll alert you if we find your social security number on any one of thousands of risky sites, so you'll be in the know. ooh. sushi. ugh. being in the know is a good thing. sign up online for free. discover social security alerts.

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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. >> 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 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 souljah in front of jesse jackson, so he's signaling 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 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 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. 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 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 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 emergent new voices connected to hip hop and a big 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, 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 is one of the 26 people she become. >> 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. >> 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.

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 legal team. >> johnnie cochran was an icon. >> 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 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 mistreat 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 bomb in the simpson trial 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 furhman, 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 for themselves, their families and their communities. >> welcome to the million man march. >> there are big goings-on in the nation's 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 nation of islam. >> the basic reason this was called is for atonement and reconciliation. >> he's always been a controversial figure because of his anti-semitic utterances but the march becomes bigger than louis farrakhan. >> why do we march? we're trapped for second class schools and first class jails. >> we've been locked up and brutalized. >> this became the first mass expression we could make together that we need to be regard and respect and and heal this racial breach. >> we aren't 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

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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. >> 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 the legislation that ends a government commitment made 61 years ago of federal aid to the nation's poorest. >> what ultimately happens, there are unanticipated consequences, for example, they didn't take into account child care. if you're going to put people back to work, who's going to ultimately take care of the

children left home? it is these questions that exposed the weakness of the bill. >> i tried going to work. 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 hear all of these stereotypes being trotted out >> there are more white people on welfare, but there was a sense that welfare is helping those people. we can't do this. so bill clinton turned on the base with welfare reform. >> 14 million americans may have elsewhere will be hit. more than a million children will be threatened into poverty. >> there's a a significant story of people who have far afallen below the radar screen and people care less and less about what happened those people. >> clinton is is a complicated figure and the legacy is the

crime bill and welfare reform will be impacting low income african-american communities. so i think he was trying to do this, no. it was politically expaid yant and helps him win reelection. >> we have committed this night to continuing to give the young people here and all across the america the america they deserve. tell me about your new social security alerts? oh! we'll alert you if we find your social security number on any one of thousands of risky sites, so you'll be in the know. ooh. sushi. ugh. being in the know is a good thing. sign up online for free. discover social security alerts.

these nike sneaker commercials are ab example of how strong black selling power is. ♪ >> black culture had always been influential, but culturally speaking, the nineties is the decade when black culture is solidified. you have this sharp rise in black superstars making movies and music. from will smith to jay-z. >> how did it feel to be number one? >> number one in the country is a major accomplish mement. >> there was a lot of people experiencing success. >> the most prestigious award has gone to tony morrison, the nobel prize. >> i think i'm the first african-american to win the nobel prize and that'ses a stonishing. >> people we look to as heroes and markers of grace and talent

and success, america was lacking at them too. this is a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility. >> everybody wanted to be like us. everybo everybody wanted to listen to our music and wear our clothes and some people feel we lost that war, that revolution in the '60s and '70s but we won in. pop culture in the '90s. >> few are as brutal as the alleged attack against haitian immigrant. >> nearly 2,000 demonstrators marched on the 70th precinct yesterday. the attack comes at a time when new york has gained new respect for its plummeting crime rate, but kplabts about police misconduct are soaring. >> the plastic cups covered the shell casings from 41 bullets fired by police after they confronted a a 22-year-old west

african immigrant who may have been reaching for his keys. >> in many ways, the ' 0s ends the way it starts. with a spotlight on violence against black bodies by law enforcement. two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side of state violence. >> in our community, we live with that fear. it could be one of our brothers or nephews or sons. i just wish everyone of them to stand. >> a symbol of a price paid against the war against crime. carefully selected statistics. >> shotted fired by police officers has decreased by 50%. >> reporter: sgl and steadfast support for the nypd. >> it's the most e 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 from image thas might have associated with the '50s and '60s. >> we thought maybe we had gotten past all this stuff, but while the ' 0s represented so much growth, we had so much further to go. >> in every society, there's a balance between order and freedom. in new york these days a number of blacks and his pan. ices in particular feel that it's their freedom that has been sacrificed to achieve order. they are the ones being stopped, frisked and sometimes harassed for no other reason than that they are black, brown and therefore, suspect. >> although i would not call the '90s the west 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 naivety and took the veil off the underlying problems in american society.

>> a march in '63, and i'm beginning to keep on marching for justice and an even playing field tr all of 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 yun generation we have moved from denying a black man service at the lunch counter to bye-bye a serious contender of the presidency. >> it was a decade that paved the way for change na n a way that 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 affi affirm. the truth of the matter is that american culture at this point, what is trully american is black

culture to a large degree. slip on the television set. it's had a profound influence on this entire nation. and it has to be affirmed. a new breeze is is e blowing is and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. >> tanks heading towards the russian parliament. >> there is no place for lawless aggression in the new world order that we seek to create. >> unemployment will be growing again by election day. >> i will not sell out to anybody but the american people. >> i believe that together we can rekindle that american dream. >> the day of the dictator is over.