- thank you. bye-bye. - in about 20 minutes from now, david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall to take a public oath of office and become new york city's 106th mayor and the city's first african-american mayor. - i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. - david dinkins being inaugurated on new year's day, 1990, is sort of an auspicious start to the decade and really the culmination of some 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.