David Dinkins
David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkinsis an American politician who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City, from 1990 to 1993. He was the first and, to date, only African American to hold that office...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 July 1927
CityTrenton, NJ
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But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
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Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
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Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.
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Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.
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And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
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Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.
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So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.