>> we have to ask ourselves when is the last time we talked about race with somebody of the other 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. >> who will police the police? >> should people be fired? >> wake up. >> we have talked at each other and about each other a long time. it's high time we all begin talking with each other. >> we we all get along.

in about 20 minutes from now david dinkens who is now mayor dinkins is expected to step out become mork's 106th mayor.

>> i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. >> david dinkins being inaugurated on new year's day, soft an auspicious start to the decade and really the culmination of some of the civil rights issues of the 1960s, people are starting to see tangible benefits of that. >> the nation's first elected black governor. >> did you think you'd see the day? >> no, indeed. see, i was born in the 30s, so you know i didn't think nothing like that going to happen. >> after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a sfwip we had not gotten all the way to where we wanted. >> dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal the deep racial divisions. now he's scrambling to get ahead of a volatile situation.

>> an angry crowd roamed demanding justice after aha siddicman ran a red light. the student was stabbed to death hours after the accident. >> for several days, there was rioting. braks attacking jews, and i got the blame for that. >> police the police and police the police. >> when mayor dinkins went there to try to ease tensions he was booed and forced to retreat. >> i think too many black officials have calmed white american, letting them go to bed thinking everything is cool and it's not cool. >> those things necessary to protect everyone. >> there was no one truth. the blacks called that a murder. the jews called it an accident.

there were two completely different realities. >> david dinkins was trying to please everybody. pulling in all these different directions trying to prove he was not just a black mayor. >> i'm working for you. >> similar tensions are simmering in cities across america. leemgons of young black men and women, unploild and losing hope believe they've been abandoned by the largest society and they are angry. >> new york city is symptom at irk of what's happening in the nation in the 19 nights and what one person calls a season of tension. they're dealing with poverty. police injustice being perpetrated against people of color. rodney king's beating was captured on camera. >> in los angeles outrage grows

over police beating an unarmed motorist. >> beating a man they had just pulled over. >> an amateur cameraman recorded it all. >> we were 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 changed, as far as minority concerned. if you black and if you mexican you going to have a problem with the city law enforcement. >> when the video hit, everybody was like, ok, finally they caught him. what's going to happen now? now they've shown a lynching on the tv. multiple agencies and officers witnessed this and no officer reported that anything had gone wrong. that indicates to me it's more than just a couple of bad apples. >> an incident has become a

focus for ethnic tensions. >> two weeks after the rodney king video goes worldwide, a young girl in south central los angeles walks into a crane-owned grocery store. >> the security camera got the dispute. she thought the girl was going to steal some orange juice. there was a skrugle. doo produced a happened gun and shot hare lens in the head. >> that both would be on video had the sense for many people saying we've finally got evidence. >> a jury convicted her of voluntary manslaughter. sentenced to parole and community service but no jail time. >> got away with murder. >> you can have a person killed with a video, with eyewitnesss and this is what you get. >> we want justice! >> the case has become a symbol

of tensions between african-americans and the cranes who have become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. >> south los angeles has been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities. there weren't many markets. liquor stores became a place you would go for cigarettes, diapers, whatever. >> we can use it for our families. >> go back to korea. >> every time up want to get [ bleep ] ♪ they make a nigga mad enough he threatens to burn down the stores of korean grossers. >> that album was in my headphones for like the whole year. he was reflecting on his experiences with cranes and a lot of asians didn't have a voice at that time. >> burn the store right down to

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lawyer on brown versus the 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. that he's black, sos much the better. >> what do you say to critics? >> i think a lot worse things have been said. i disagree with that but i have to live with it. >> they're expected to vote tomorrow on clarence thomas. now some lawmakers are worried about a sexual hair rasment accusation. >> anita hill enters the room. >> they were going to challenge him on the basis of his conservative views. his race was not going to be an issue but i think the anita hill because it back into the picture. >> hearing evidence on sexual harassment charges that have been made against judge clarence

thomas. >> he spoke about acts he had seen in pornographic films such as women having sex with animals. >> this seemingly personal area is being aired out before this jury of all white men and it created quite a spectacle. >> this is a circus. as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppedity blacks. >> 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 painful the process has been this is a time for healing in our country. >> it's not exactly a rage but it's a much-noted trend.

brack movies with black stars and directors. one is being premiered just about one every week. but boys in the hood directed by 23-year-old john singleton. >> i wanted to voice what i had seen growing up as a young black man in los angeles. los angeles, police department. i mean, they were kind of an occupying force. it really became a war zone. >> i ain't doing nothing. >> four police officers who appeared in the vape 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 ventura county. >> it felt like they were being sent to a friendly venue and certainly a more friendly than a downtown los angeles jury would be. >> see where king is threatening the police officers and it's not

about race, it's about king resisting. >> you didn't see him have any weapon, did you? >> yes, he did see. >> what was his weapon. >> his body. >> we're ready to take care of any eventuality. >> we, the jury find the defendant not guilty of assault. >> this was a stunning verdict. >> 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. >> it is not justice! >> first and perhaps most spontaneous reaction came from director john singleton. >> this is like a bomb. we're sitting on a bomb. >> they let themselves often on the attempted murder of rodney king.

>> no justice, no peace. i was there when the verdicts were announced. the crowd began to gather. it began to turn more and more violent. they have a glass entrance and people were throwing rocks at the doors. i was inside with police commissioners and they were franticly searching for gates. it was unreachable because it was a fundraiser. >> my wife called and said are you watching the television. they're beating a guy up. >> in our living rooms we saw in realtime reginald denny get smashed with a block. >> they will not enter the area. >> it was a message that this is a free for all. there are no police, nobody who's going to stop you. people poured into the stroets and the violence spread from

that. >> what the hell's going on here? once you don't control something like that early on, whew, 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, look, this is how america going to hear you. we're going to put our foot to the pedal and drive in nation in this direction we need it to go in. ♪ ♪ >> city wide curfew is in effect at this hour and still the fires burn. >> 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 crane owned

businesses 1700 were ruined. >> don't people realize what they're doing is wrong? is this the way to overcome racism? >> people remembered that 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 crane stores were targeted and in some cases those shop owners were targeted. >> most kraens came in the late 70s, early 80s. in korea they all have to go through military service so they became weekend commandos. >> they commended their property with bullets. >> all the gun shops in korea town let out all the guns and mobilized. the young guys they told us to patrol the streets. we make our parents proud, stood up for our community. >> it was the biggest rebellion riot since the civil war.

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>> now this city tries to recover j i grabbed the broom just to sweep because ashes were everywhere. all of a sudden, they're what are you doing? i said i'm sweeping. i don't know what else to do. half-hour later there was like three, five, 12 people with brooms. well, we saw you on the news, map. we came out 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 cans and brooms to clean up their burned-out neighborhood. >> there is another alternative for venting your anguish. >> it took three days to destroy it and three days to careen it up. i was very proud. ♪ ♪ >> i feel in a way. only because i feel that america is giving black people no other choice. >> sista soulja hsks does not sanitize her message for the public. >> we all have to come together and find some common ground. >> how do you find common ground in an all white united states senate? >> she rises in prominence and becomes more vocally outspoken.

a number of her statements are held up of an example of black hatred of white people. >> tell "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. >> running for office bill clinton decided to seize on that particularly sentence and pull it out of context. if you took the words black and white and reversed them, you might think david duke was giving that speak. >> bill clinton denounced her in front of jesse jax. he's signalling that he is not a typical liberal. >> i think bill clinton is like a lot of white politicians, they party with black women and play saxophone but they make the same decisions that are destructive to african people in this country and throughout the

world. >> the next. of the united states of america 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 thought anita hill was starting this. they say the rage they felt at her treatment by the senate judiciary committee fueled their camp campaigns. >> women began seizing some of these offices. it sense tiesed minorities to the fact that our voices have to be heard and the real way to have them be heard is to be

holding the reins of power. >> great box office for a wednesday and that's what opening day crowds paid to see malcolm x. >> it's hard to miss the phenomenon called spike lee. spike lee is a black man who has reached the top of white culture and he's done it his way. >> malcolm x is an impressive achievement in terms of not being one of these small independent emergent new voices connected to hip-hop, but instead a big budget, three-hour 20 minute epic about an african-american figure. >> i asked if he was ever worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience? >> people come but the minute you start thinking about crossover, start diluting the work, watering it down and the work suffers. >> when we look at the john

singletons and the spice, 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, express even music or theater or in cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devere smith and she's taken the riot and turned it into theater. >> twilight, that's my name. >> this is a one woman tour de force. >> that wasn't us over there. >> i thought of the riots like this explosion of a -- like a trunk or a house that exploded and everything's all over the place. then as an artist, it's this incredible 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 bow to a period of racial strife in america, there is always a big pop culture surge of black voices. >> hopefully people will want to come and see this, which is about race, which is the uncomfortableness of being different, but that is being paid attention to makes me happy.

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good morning, everyone. homicide detectives in los angeles are telling the associated press that o.j. simpson's arrest is imminent in connection with the killings 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. there is 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 hollywood negro. he had a blonde wife. lived in brentwood. he played the role very well.

>> o.j. is sitting in the passenger seat with a gun pointed at his own head. >> if the person who murdered two white people was a street thug, it wouldn't have been this big case. but it was this big icon. >> we understand o.j. 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 that now includes johnnie cochran. >> johnnie cochran was an icon to the black community because he had exposed police misconduct in the dream 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. >> clark shows the jurors pictures of the death scene,

bloody footprints, the knit cap, one of the bloody gloves. >> the fact that blood mysteriously appears on vital pieces of evidence is devastating 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 appearance of the glove, sir? >> a dark leather glove that appeared to be moist or sticky. >> we knew early on that detective fuhrman had issues in his background. >> you say on your oath that you have not spoken about black people as niggers in the past ten years? >> that's what i'm saying, sir. >> 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 late in the trial that mark fuhrman has worked with a l.a.

screenwriter 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 that fuhrman is capable of manufacturing evidence to bolster their claim that he planted the 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 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 fuhrman 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 had been entitled action find the defendant orenthal james simpson not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code 187-a, a felony upon nicole brown simpson, a human being as charged in count one of the information. >> oh, my word. >> 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's celebrating the fact that this horrific crime occurred. they're celebrating what feels like payback for rodney king, even for latasha harlins, for a system and 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. 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 the head of the 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? because we're trapped for second class schools and first class jails. >> we've been locked up, we've been brutalized. this became the first mass expression we could make together that we need to be regarded and respected 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

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>> 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 david dinkins for things that weren't his fault. and along comes 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 tack. to clean up the neighborhood aggressively, to visibly improve the quality of life as the first step in crime reduction. >> it's the broken windows theory. this 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. 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 in america, of course crime would go down, but the question is at what cost? for black people it was a sense of community, of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. >> with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california, the easy-going tolerance of earlier decades is frayed. >> at the ballot box, what we see in california, which is the leading edge of this trend, is a whole number of different types of initiatives that are meant to further contain communities of color. >> tens of thousands of californians march today to demonstrate against proposition 187. which would bar immigrants from schools and welfare roles. >> we are as american as anybody else. we deserve an education. >> opponents say the emotionally divisive measure plays on prejudice against latinos. supporters say it will staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to california.

>>. has become the issue in the governor's race. pete wilson is pinning his re-election hopes on anti-immigrant sentiment. >> we're going to take back california for the working, tax paying families of this state. >> the main undercurrent of all of the different measures that were being held from 1994 onward dealt with fear, fear of the other, of an expanding demographic. >> it's that kind of incident that has generated so much heat in california where there's a controversial ballot measure. >> proposition 209 would end all race and gender considerations in public education, government contracts and hiring. >> you begin to see all these policies and bills against affirmative action attempting to address crime. all of it feels like secret agent talk for black people. >> there have been 376 murders so far this year. in washington, many of them 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 deal with the ravages of crime and drug and violence, none of the other things we seek to do will ever take us where we need to go. >> the crime bill became lock 'em up, throw the key away, three strikes you're out. in their zest to govern and 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 its mostly poor users. chemically 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 the same five-year sentence

for 500 gram of powder cocaine. the law was designed to help clean up crack infested communities but instead 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. 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. 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 61 years ago of federal aid to the nation's poorest. >> what ultimately happens is that there are the unanticipated consequences, for example, they didn't take into account child care. if you're going to put people

back to work, who is ultimately going to 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, but i really 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 becomes racialized in a way in which we begin to hear all of these stereotypes being trotted out about the lazy dependent welfare queens. >> there are more white people on welfare at that time than there were black people, but there was a sense, again, that welfare is helping those people, it's a handout and we can't do that. so once again bill clinton turned on 14 million americans mainly black in the city, white elsewhere will be hit. more that a million will be thrown into poverty. there's a story of people who have fallen below the radar screen and people care less and less what may happen to those people.

>> clinton is an extraordinarily complicated bill. welfare reform is going to be disproportionately impacting african-american and low income communities. >> it was politically expedient and helps win the re-election. >> we have continued our jumpy to give the young people here and all across america the america that they deserve.

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do you know, do you know, do you know? these nike sneakers is an example of how strong black sales is. you have this sharp rise in black superstars making movies and music from will smith to jay-z. >> how does it feel like to be number one? >> that's major ak militiament. >> there was a lot of people experiencing success visibly. >> it's gone to tonyi morrison, the nobel price. >> i'm the first african-american to win the

nobel prize. >> you are? >> and that's astonishing. america was looking at them, too. this represents a new understanding of diversity. a new understanding of american possibility. everyone wanted to be like us, everybody wanted to talk like us, they wanted to see our movies, they wanted to wear our clothes. and some people felt we lost that war, that revolution in the early '60s and early '70s. >> few are as brutal as the attack against the haitian immigrant. >> they marched where they say police beat and sodomized him. the attack comes at a time when new york is gaining new respect for its plummeting crime rate. >> the plastic cups cover the shell casings from 41 bullets

after they ep countered him. he may have been reecaching for his keys. >> it starts with a spotlight on violence against black bodies by law enforcement. amadou diallo, two people who didn't deserve it. >> in our community we live with that fear, it can be one of our brothers or nephews orsons. i just wish everyone could understand. >> diallo has become a symbol of a price paid in new york's war against crime. rudy guiliani. >> shots fired by police officers has decreased by 50%. >> in steadfast support of the nypd. >> more restrained. it's among one of the most restrained police departments in

the country. >> many people thought even though times had progressed, in other ways some of the other images were not that much different than people might have associated with the activity or '60s. >> it was a reminder that there was so much progress but we had so much further to go. >> in every society there is a balance between order and freedom. in new york these days, a number of blacks and hispanics in particularly feel that 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 are black or brown and therefore suspect. >> although, i would not call the '90s the best of times or the worst of times, i see it as two train tracks that went dangerously further and further apart. >> it's the time that america

lost its naivety and took the veil off the underlying problems in american society. >> i marched in '63. and i marched in '95. i'm going to keep on marching for an even playing field for 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 one generation we have moved from denying a black man service at 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 no time other did since the '60s. >> we are part of a hybrid culture and we can't deny that. so, in some ways, the more obvious bi-racial identity i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm. and white americans have to affirm because they partake in a hybrid culture. the truth of the matter is that american culture at this point,

what is truly american is black culture to a large degree. flip on the television set and it has had a profound influence on this entire nation and it has to be affirmed. ♪