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Kadiatou Diallo, Mother of Amadou, Discusses $3M NYC Settlement
America Behind The Color Line – A Conversation With
Renowned Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Bracero Redux: Bush Immigration Proposal Creates Pool of
Temporary Workers
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 Kadiatou Diallo, Mother of Amadou, Discusses
$3M NYC Settlement
INTRO: We speak with Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo,
a West African immigrant who was unarmed when four white police
officers gunned him down in a hail of 41 bullets. The City
of New York agreed to pay the Diallo family $3 million to
settle a lawsuit stemming from the killing.
The City of New York has agreed to pay the family of Amadou
Diallo $3 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from his 1999
police killing.
Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, died on Feb. 4, 1999 when
four white New York police officers fired 41 shots at him.
He was standing in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment unarmed.
Police opened fire when he reached his wallet. They claimed
they had mistaken the wallet to be a gun. He was 22 years
old.
After a trial jury acquitted the officers, the family responded
by filing a civil suit against the city for tens of millions
of dollars. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was
elected after the shooting, said, “I'm just glad that
we were able to come to a financial settlement with the family
and let's get on with it.''
- Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo killed in 1999
shooting by four New York City police officers. She is the
founder of the Amadou Diallo Foundation to promote racial
healing through educational programs and is a frequent lecturer.
She is the co-author of, My Heart Will Cross This Ocean:
My Story, My Son, Amadou.
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:50 America Behind The Color Line – A
Conversation With Renowned Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
INTRO: Renowned scholar and chair of Harvard’s African-American
studies department Henry Louis Gates joins in our firehouse
studios to discuss Colin Powell, Cornel West and how the African
American experience has transformed from a civil rights movement
into a class struggle.
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., renowned scholar and chair of
Harvard’s African-American studies department. He
traveled across the country conducting interviews with such
notables as Colin Powell, Maya Angelou, Vernon Jordan, Russell
Simmons and Morgan Freeman as well talking with every-day
folk. Gates’ latest book is “America Behind
the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans.”
PBS will air the four part documentary companion to the
book in February.
8:50-8:58 Bracero Redux: Bush Immigration Proposal
Creates Pool of Temporary Workers
INTRO: We speak with Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) about President
Bush’s proposal to allow some undocumented workers to
apply for government permission to legally work in the U.S.
for three years at a time.
President Bush Wednesday unveiled a proposal to allow some
undocumented workers to apply for government permission to
legally work in the U.S. for three years at a time. The plan,
which is being aimed to win Latino votes in November, has
been criticized by some immigrant advocacy groups and Democratic
politicians.
New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez said of immigrant workers,
Bush “wants their sweat and labor, but he ultimately
doesn’t want them.” On the campaign trail, Senator
John Kerry said the program “rewards business over immigrants
by providing them with a permanent pool of disenfranchised
temporary workers who could easily be exploited.” Bush
said reform was needed in part to allow the government to
have a better idea of who is in the country. In order to receive
benefits undocumented workers would have to apply with the
government.
- Rep. Jose Serrano (D – NY)
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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