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peace. >> should people be frightened? >> people should wake up. it's 1991. >> we have talked at each other and about each other a long time. it is high time we started talking with each other. >> no justice, no peace. >> can't we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now, david dinkins is scheduled to take a public oath of office and become new york city's next mayor and the first african american mayor. >> i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. >> david being inaugurated on new year's day 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade. and the culmination of some of t...

Step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wanted. >> in last year's mayoral cam payne, dinkins ran as the candidate to heal deep divisions. a situation is becoming highly volatile. >> an angry crowd roamed through the crown heights section of brooklyn demanding justice after a motorist, a hasidic man hit and killed two black children. >> there was rioting. blacks attacking jews and i got the blame for that. >> we have to increase the peace. >> when mayor dinkins went to crown heights to ease the tensions, he was booed and forced to retreat. >> i think too often, many

Reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wanted. >> in last year's mayoral campaign, dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal new york's deep racial divisions. now he finds himself scrambling to keep ahead of a situation that is becoming highly volatile. >> an angry crowd roamed through the crown heights section of brooklyn, demanding justice after a motorist, ah hasidic man, ran a red light and hit two black children, killing one and critically injured the other. a hasidic student was stabbed to death after the accident. >> for several days, there w...