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Crowd: yusef! - [bleep]! that's right! that's right! that's right! that's right, baby! - we were walking, and they were following us, a group with signs with, you know, a monkey, a watermelon. the n-word was used. and when we got to the flatbed truck, well, i said to dave, i said, "dave, this is getting pretty volatile here." he said, "don't worry. i got this." he said to me, "i got this." we went on a flatbed truck, and the first words out of his mouth-- he pointed to them. he said, "i'm gonna be your mayor too." - as soon as yusef hawkins dies, it becomes the lead issue in the race for mayor...
- i don't know what crime and fighting crime has to do with racism. i'm very much in favor of the death penalty. - and you had a mayor that played between the divisions. - grandmothers say, "but he's a good boy. he never did anything." don't you believe it. - a big part of giuliani's plan was peeling off 30% of the black vote, because a lot of black new yorkers loathed ed koch. - oh, mayor koch, he's told so many lies. - mayor for the rich, not for the poor. - in terms of administration, in terms of business, i think he's been terrific. but in race relations, he's been very, very, very sad. - ...
"we don't allow the ns around here." and they surround him, and they kill him. a clear racial murder. - and ed koch immediately says, "wait a minute. don't prejudge." prejudge? they said, "well, we don't know if it was race. maybe it was a guy mad about his girlfriend." so i say, "okay, you don't know if it's race? we are going to come out here and march," 'cause i wanted to make it clear to the nation, this was about race. - over the weekend, civil rights leaders marched through bensonhurst, the all-white neighborhood where hawkins was killed. they wanted to show they could go anywhere. but t...
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