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. we have to ask ourselves when was the last time we talked about race with somebody of another race? if the answer is never, we're part of the problem. >> this is like a bomb we're sitting on a bomb. >> you can have a black person killed with a video this is what you'll get >> this is a revolution. >> we want peace. >> should people be frightened wake up it's 1991, wake up. >> we talked at each other and about each other a long time it's high time we all began talking with each other.

>> no justice, no peace >> can we all get along? ♪. ♪. ♪. ♪ ♪. ♪ . about 20ments from now, david dingic kins now mayor is

scheduled to step out from city hall and take public oath of office and become new york city's 106th mayor and the first african-american mayor. >> i intend to be all of new york. >> new year's day in 1990 is a start to the decade, and culmination of some civil rights struggles of 1960's people are starting to see tangible expert >> the grandson of slaves >> did you ever see a black man would be elected governor of virginia? no indeed, i was born in the 30's, you don't think nothing like that got 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. >> last year's mayoral campaign, he ran as the candidate who would heal new york's deep racial divisions now finds

himself scrambling to keep ahead of a situation highly volatile. >> angry crowd roamed through the crown heights second of brooklyn after motorist ran red light and hit two black children killing one and critically willing the other, the student was stabbed to death hours after >> several day, there was rioting, blacks, attacking jews, and i got the blame for that. >> we had to increase the peace. >> when mayor dink ins went to crown heights to try and ease the tensions he was booed and forced to retreat. >> too often many black elected officials continued white americans telling them they want them here then go to bed feel everything is cool and it's not cool. >> come together and 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 ding in trying to prove everybody not just a black mayor. >> your mayor works for you. you got the commission >> what about the jew >> similar tensions are simmering in cities across america, lesions of young black men and women unemployed losing hope believe they've been bonded by the larger society and they're angry. >> new york city is symptomatic of what's happening in the nation in the early 1990s what one writer describes as season of rational interception >> it really is complicated by the fact that you have african-americans dealing with stoffeling poverty inequality and police injustice perpetrate against communities of color, rodney king in 1991 exposed some of that when his boating was captured on camera.

>> in los angeles, outrage grows over a videotape of police beating an unarmed motorist. >> an explosive case involving white police officer >> beating man that had just pulled over. >> amateur camera recorded it all. >> we here in los angeles were just struck boy the maliciousness of what we saw. the inhumane sense of this person struggling on the ground, being battered repeatedly >> this is mean 91 and things haven't changed far as minority is concerned. >> if you're black and mexican with law enforcement. >> thousands of phone calls across the united states. >> when the rod know king video hit everybody was like ok, finally they caught him. what's going to happen now, they've shown a lynching on tv t multiple officers from multiple agencies witnessed this and not one single officer that night reported anything had gone wrong, that suggests a deeper problem than a couple bad apple

>> another wide's publicized incident on videotape has become a focused between black and korean in los angeles. >> two weeks after the roed knee king video goes world wide, a young girl walks into a korean grocery store. >> store own thought 15-year-old was got steal some orange juice. there was a scuffle, hardland struck her and learned to leave the store, du powerhouse add hauling and shot him in the back of the head. >> that it should come so quickly after king and both on video, many had the sense now we final have evidence of what we've been complainting about >> a jury connected du of voluntary manslaughter sentenced to parole and community is of no jail time. >> got away with murder. >> you can have a black person killed with eyewitnesses and this is what you'll get.

we want justice. >> the case has become a symbol of interceptions between african-americans and the koreans who have become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. >> south los angeles had been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities, there weren't many markets, so liquor stores became like the stand in the place you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. >> open a market that we can use for our family. >> go back to korea. every time i got to go down to the store -- ♪. ♪. mad enough to --. >> rapper ice cube continues to draw heavy fire for the lyrics on his new album death interstate on the album threatens to burn down the stores of korean grocers if they don't they don't black customers with mr. deference >> that was in the my head phones the whole year, he was reflecting on his experience and lot of asians didn't have a

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>> the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas but now some lawmakers are concerned about an accusation harm dating back ten years >> anita hill enters the room. >> democrats would challenge clarence thomas on basis of conserve views race would not be an issue but i think anita hill brought race back into the pitcher ythe senate judiciary committee is meeting to hearings on charge made against clarence thomas >> he spoke about facts about women having sex with animal >> this seemingly personal matter is aired out in front of this jury of all white men. and it created quite a spectacle. >> this is a circus and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it's a high tech lynching, for up tea

blacks >> clarence thomas 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. >> 52 to 48 was 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 rain chance but it's a much noted trend, whole new wave of black films with black stars by black director, now in new york, new black film is being premiered just about every week. among those drawing impressive reviews is boys in the hood directed by 23-year-old john singleton. >> i wanted to make a film that would voice what i had seen growing up as a young black man in los angeles. los angeles police department, i mean, you know, they were kind of occupying force, and really became a war zone.

>> i didn't do nothing. >> think you're tough. >> four los angeles police officers who appeared in the video tape of the rodney king beatings went on trial today. >> defense attorneys claiming they couldn't get a fair trial in los angeles got the case moved to more conservative neighboring venture are a county >> felt like these officers were sent to a friendly venue and certainly than a downtown la jury would have been. >> the defense kicked apart the videotape and every image was turned around to see see where king is threatening the police officers and it's not about race, it is about king resisting. >> you didn't see him to have any weapon. did you. >> yes, i did see him to have a weapon. >> what kind of a weapon did mr. king have >> his body. >> we're ready, we're well prepared to take care of any eventuallity no matter what it might be. >> the clear, will read the verdicts. >> we the jury find test the defendants stacy ccuban not guilty by the crime of assault. >> this was a stunning verdict,

i don't think many were expecting this. >> 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. no justice. >> the first and perhaps most spontaneous reaction came from boys in the hood director john single ton. >> they let these people off from the attempted murder of rodney king. >> i said listen it will go down. >> no justice, no peace, no justice, no peace. >> i was to at the center the police headquarters at the time when the verdicts were announced. crowd began to gather, began to turn more and more violent, a glass entrance and people were throwing rocks at the doors >> i was inside with police commissioners and they were frantically searching for gates, turned out the gate was unreachable because he was you at a fund-raiser. >> i was standing in front of parker center trying to protect

the building and my wife called and said are you watching television? they're to beating a guy up in the middle of florence in normandy. >> terrible pictures. >> in our living rooms we saw in real time reginald identify smashed with a big cement block. >> there's no police presence here, they will not enter the area. >> it sent a message to everybody else that this is a free for all. there are no police, there's nobody who will stop you. and so possibly poured into the streets. and the violence spread from that. >> where is lapd? what the held is going on here? once you don't control something like that early on, it explodes and continues to explode. that's what happened here. >> martin luther king junior said riots are the language of the unheard and they're saying look, this is how america going

to hear you we'll take this thing over, we'll put our foot to the pedal and drive this nation in the direction we need it to go in. ♪. ♪ ♪. dust to down, city-wide curfew is in effect in los angeles at this hour and still the fire is burned. >> 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 owned. >> this is not the way oh overcome racism. >> people remember the latasha hardland shooting and said 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 the shop owners were targeted. >> most koreans came in the late

70's really 80's you're still dealing with the first generation of koreans and core correa they have to go through military service >> these korean shop owners defended with bullets >> all the gunshots led to other guns and they just mobilized and the young guys told us to just patrol the streets. >> we make our parent proud and stick up for our community. it turned into 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. >> i just want to say you know, can we all get along? can we get along? >> rodney king is not a public spokesman, an activist, he was a victim of a police beating clearly he didn't know what to say, what is there you boat the

hit out of me and i'm still alive. f you. that's what he should have said but he didn't say that he said can't we all get along? and a lot of people didn't want to get along. >> no justice, no peace.

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equalling the record the set by the detroits rots in 1967. this city tries to recover. >> i grabbed a broom, just to sweep because the ashes were everywhere and all of a sudden ran at me was channel 9 and they said what are you doing? i said i'm sweeping, i don't know what else to do. hall hour later, there was like three, five, 12 people with brooms. well, we saw you on the news and came to help you. >> by 6:00 in the afternoon, there were thousands of people. 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 out neighborhood. >> we need to get to youth to understand there's another alternative for vending your anguish and frustration >> took three days to destroy it and three days to clean it up. i was very proud. >> ♪. ♪. ♪. i am african first, black first

♪. ♪. >> my survival mean yours total destruction, then so be it. >> you feel that yyes, i feel that way. only because i feel america has given black people no other choice. >> sister souljah is a rapper, activist and does not sanitize her message for the public. >> we all have to come together to find common ground. >> how do you find a common ground in and all white united states senate? show me a common grounds >> she becomes much more vocally out spoken, a number of her statements a held up of black people, white one-stop shop. >> tell the -- if black people kill black people every day why not have a week and kill white people. >> in running for office, the democratic candidate bill clinton decided to seize on that particular sentence, and pull it

out of context if, took the words white and black and reversed them you might think david duke was giving that space launch. >> bill clinton denounced sister soul j.a in front of jesse jackson. >> they eat soul food party with black and play the saxophone when it comes to domestic be for a reason policy that are destructive to african people in this country and throughout the world. >> next president of the united states of america, president bill clinton. >> 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. >> diversity can be a source of strength in a world that is 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 starting the political treatment, they say the rage bite senate judiciary committee fueled campaigns >> it was a hopeful time when women began seizing some offices sensitized women and minorities to at the fact that our voices have to be heard and the real way to have them be heard is to be holding the reigns of power. >> 2.4 million dollars great box office for a wednesday and that's what opening day crowds paid out to see malcolm x >> it's hard they don't miss the phenomenon called spike lee, a black man who reached the top of white culture. and he's done it his way. >> malcolmx is impressive in

terms of not being one of those small independent emergent new voices connected to hip hop but a big budget three-hour 20 minute epic about a very important african-american figure. >> i think. >> i asked if he was ever worried that the movie would not battle to a broad audience. >> again, people will come but minute black artist start thinking about cross over they start diluting the work, watered down and the work suffers. >> when we lock at the john singletons and spcas all the way across the board, this become the er are a we took charge of our own culture, our own culture icons and telling our own story in music theater and cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city part a little more than a year

ago, her in an is ana daveare, smith. >> twilight bay is my name. >> twilight is one of 26 people deveer smith becomes in this one woman tore des for. >> that was -- that a wasn't us >> i thought of the los angeles riots as like this explosion of like a trunk or house that exploded and everything is all over the place. then as an artist it's this credible opportunity to put it together in a 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 strive in america, there's a big pop culture surge of black voice >> i'm hopeful and heart ended and flat erred people want to come and see this which is about race, which is this big taboo, the comfortableness of

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i'm dr. sanjay gupta. this is cnn. >> good morning everyone, homicide detectives in los angeles are telling the "associated press"that oj simpson's arrest is imminent in connection with the kills of his xwife and a friend. >> today my office filed murder

charges against oj simpson for the deaths of nicole brown simpson and ronald goldman at 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 now >> you believe that to be oj simpson down there below you. >> was a guy who felt like he was above race became the exceptional holiday nigro, a blond wife living in brentwood. >> he's sitting in the passenger seat with a gun at his own head >> it was this kind of icon. >> we understand oj is in custody >> 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 newly expanded legal team which now includes johnny cochran. >> johnny cochran was a hero to the la black community he had spent decades exposing 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 oj simpson is about to put begin. >> the trail of blood through his own ford bronco into his house in rockingham is devastating proof of guilt. >> clark shows the jurors pictures of the scene, footprints, cap bloody gloves. >> the fact that blood appears on vital pieces of evidence is devastating evidence of something far more sinister. >> the notion that the los angeles would unfairly trot an african-american suspect in 1994 was far from outlandish and no one knew that better than johnny

cochran. >> can you describe the appearance of glove. >> dark leathered glove appeared to be somewhat moist or sticky, we knew early on that detective furman had issues in his background. >> you say on your oath you had not spoken about black people as niggers the past ten years >> that's what i'm saying. >> the oj trial is in chaos between and the free for all to very well decide the ultimate outcome. >> the furman tapes a texting time bomb in the simpson trial blew up today >> it becomes evident late in the trial that mark furman worked with an la screen writer and made tapes of what police life is like >> something on nigger >> the defense ordered 41 examples of furman using, he had not done the last ten years, the defense is -- that he planted oj

system's estate. >> would you assume the witness stand >> was the testimony that you gave at the preliminary hearing in this case completely truthful? >> i wish to assert my fifth amendment privilege. >> the defense tried successfully to turn this case into a referendum on mark furman in particular and the lapd in general. >> no one would have precluded it after a trial lasted three quarters of a year the jury in the oj simpson trial taken less than four hours to reach a verdict. >> mr. simpson would you please stand face the jury. >> most people can tell you where they were sitting when that verdict came down. >> we the jury in the woven titled action find the defendant or rent although james simpson in violation of murder a felony upon nicole brown simpson. >> the question wasn't whether

oj 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. >> nobody is celebrating the fact that this horrific crime occurred. they're celebrating what feels like pay back for rodney king. even for la tasha, for a system and a condition that ignored them. >> in recent weeks, everyone of us has been made aware of a simple truth. white americans and black americans often see the same world in drastically different ways. way that is go beyond and beneath the simpson trial and the 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 the nation's capitol 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 dc metro and seeing a sea of faces of color on the national mall. >> the million man march was called for boy lewis far con who's head of the nation of islam. >> the basic reason this was called was for atonement and reconciliation. >> he's always been a convertible figure because of

his anti-semitic utterances but the march becomes bigger than lewis far con >> why do we march? because we're trap with second class schools and of his class jails. >> we been locked up, brutalized, this became the first mass compression we could make together that we need to be regarded respected and heal this racial breach. >> we aren't all drug dealers around stuff like that we can't come together and have a positive message >> stop standing with our mothers, stick it out with your families, when you start mentoring our young, then we can build a new nation of strong people. >> i had to get out of that kind of like time bomb mentality that growing up in the south street of la gives you, i think march gave me a sense of hope that

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steps of new york city hall, 10,000 off-duty cops banded together in protest fed up and angry with a city they claim doesn't back them up. >> david dink ins pisses off the police because he talks about civilian review boards, accountability for police brutality so we see prominently white police officers screaming over rash slurs at the black mayor. >> that kind of language racial slurs separate and apart from the destruction of property and whatnot that is why some possibly have an absence confidence in the police department. >> the reason the moral in the police department is so low is one reason and one reason alone, david dink ins. >> some ways it was easy to blame david dinkins for things they were not his fault along comes giuliani, there's a message for this often is. >> today the new york police are

being asked to take a different tact to clean up the neighborhood aggressively visibly approve the quality of life. >> as a broken windows theory, that is idea that there were small quality of life crimes and if you could stop that, you would set up a very peaceful and orderly society. and that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionately targeted young black men as potential criminals >> they're out there, more police officers walking the beat. >> how are you? if i would have put police on every corner in america of course crime would go down the question is what cost? many black people it was a sense of community, dignity, a sense of respect for law enforcement. >> with the majority of americans worrying about quality of life in california, the easy going tolerance of earlier decades is frayed >> at the ballot box what we see in california sort of the leading edge of this trend is a

whole number of different types of initiatives that are many meant to contain communities of color. >> tens of thousands marched through downtown los angeles to demonstrate against proposition 187 which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, nonemergency medical services and welfare roles. >> we're as american as anybody else and we deserve an education >> opponents say it plays on voter preps against less than tea knows >> it has become the issue in the governor's race, pete wilson is pinning his election hope on anti-immigrant sentiments. >> we'll take back california for the working, tax paying families of this state >> main under current of all the different measures held from 1994 onward dealt with fear, fear of the other, of an expanding demographic >> it's that kind of incident that has generated so much heat

in california, it's a controversial ballot measure to end preference for minorities, proposition 208 will end release and gender considerations in public education, government contracts and hire. >> you begin to see policies and bills against affirmative action in attempting to address crime in all of us feels like secret agent talk for black people. >> therefore 376 murders so far this year, in washington many gang and drug related. >> another night of gang 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. but unless we death toll with the ravages of crime and drug and violents, none of the other things we seek to do will never take us where we need to go. >> the crime bill became lock them up throw the key away, three strikes you're out and

their zest to governor that we can stop this was an overreach. >> the bill, the penalties for powdered cocaine and crack were different. . >> powdered cocaine, a drug of choice among mostly middle and upper class abusers. crack cocaine, a cheaper faster high for mostly poor users. clinically the drugs are virtually identical but not in federal court, an arrest for five grams of crack brings a mandatory five years in federal prison. but you get just the same five years sentence for 500 grams of powdered cocaine. the law was designed to help clean up crack infested communities, but instead, become another wedge between blacks and whites. >> all these absurd laws putting people in prison for lengthy terms and we all the imbalances who get incarcerated for long

period of times is people of color you have black men going prison. >> you have president clinton having a political strategy seeing we'll be tough on crime but socially accepted and the democratic party started moving to the right playing the racial political lines. >> welfare as we know it is now history, president clinton today signed the legislation that ends a government commitment made you can't years ago federal aid to the nation's poor evident. >> there's unanticipated consequences, if you're going to put people back to work who will take care of the children left home? it was these question that is expose the weakness of the bill. >> i tried to go to work but i didn't have child care but i was in school, i was doing something not just sitting around doing nothing. >> you want to work >> of course. >> welfare becomes racial i seed in a way in which we begin to

hear the stereo type about the lazy dependant welfare queens >> there are more white people on welfare than black people. welfare is helping those people it's had a handout we can't do that, again, bill clinton turned with welfare reform. >> 14 million americans many black in the stows white elsewhere will be hit, more than a million children will be thrown no poverty >> there's a significant story of people who have far below the radar screen, and people care less and less about what may actually happen to those people. >> clinton is an extraordinarily complicated people and crime bill and welfare reform will be disproportionally impacting low income african-american communities i believe he was actively trying to do this, no. it was politically expedient and helps had my reelection. >> we have committed this night to continuing our journey to give the young people here and those across america the america

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when black culture is solidified as the mainstream of american culture. and you have this sharp rise in black super stars, making movies, and music from will smith to jay-z >> how does it feel to be number one. >> beautiful number one in the whole country that's a major accomplishment. >> there was a lot of people experiencing successful >> the most presses teaches award for literature gone to tony morrison. >> i think i'm the most african-american to win nobel prize, that's astonishing. >> people we looked to as heros and markers of dignity, grace talent and success, america was looking at them too >> this represents a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility, everybody want to be like us. everybody want to talk like us, everybody want to see our movies, listen to our music, wear our clothes. and some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution in the early 60's and 70's but

won the war in pop culture in the 90's >> every city has cases of police brutality but few are as brutal as the alleged attack against hessian immigrant abner luina. >> nearly 2,000 demonstrators marked on the 70 and precinct yesterday as police beat him and sodomized him, comes at a time when new york got a new respect for plummeting chrome rate and about police misconduct are soaring. >> plastic cups covered the shell casings from 41 bullets fired from police after they confront add west african immigrant reaching for his company >> the 90's ends the way the stops, two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side

of state violence were. >> the black community we live with the fear it could be one of our brothers, nephews, son, i just wish everyone could understand. >> he's become a marter to some, a symbol of a price paid in new york's war against crime, renew giuliani, steadfast support for the police department. >> the new york is substantially morrow strained >> among most restrained police departments in the country. >> many people thought time progressed in some ways some images were not that much different than what possibly might have associated with the 50's and 60's >> the way we gotten past this but keeps happening >> it was reminder while the 90's represented so much growth and progress, we still had so much further to go. >> in every society there's a

fragile balance between order and freedom, in new york these days a number 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 that they're black, brown and therefore suspect. >> although i would not call the 90's the best of times the worst of teams i see it as two train track that is dangersly went further and further apart >> it's the to me that america lot of its naivety, took the veil off the underlying problems in american society. >> a march in 63 in 95 and i'll keep on marching for justice and an even playing feel for all american people. >> it was a decade of realignment, we had some win, we had some losses we redefined the collective culture of america. >> one generation we moved from

denying a black man service to the lunch counter to being a serious contender for the presidency >> it was a seminal decade that paved the way for change in a way that maybe no other one did since the 60's. >> we're part of a hybrid culture. deny that, so in some ways, the more obvious by racial 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 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 thi