By The Year 2000; The Color of Power

<v Man>African-Americans have fought hard to gain political clout and political <v Man>representation. And I don't think we're just going to leave everything that-that-that <v Man>we've struggled so hard to gain. <v Man>In any political power, no one gives anything, you have to <v Man>take it. <v Man>This is the last stronghold, when they lose this ground they've lost it. <v Man>They see the demographics changing very rapidly and <v Man>do not want to share the power. <v Val Zavala>Latinos growing in number and demanding political power, but will African-Americans <v Val Zavala>have to step aside? The Color of Power next on By the Year 2000. <v TV Speaker>Major funding for By the Year 2000 is provided by the Michael <v TV Speaker>J. Connell Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation. <v TV Speaker>Additional funding is provided by Kaiser Permanente working with Southern California <v TV Speaker>for a healthier tomorrow, and the Norris Foundation, <v TV Speaker>which is pleased to recognize public television as an important and vital community

<v TV Speaker>resource. With a supporting grant from the Earth Technology Corporation. <v Val Zavala>California's Latino population is exploding and many of them are settling into <v Val Zavala>neighborhoods that have long been African-American strongholds. <v Val Zavala>Blacks who fought long and hard for civil rights and political power are now feeling <v Val Zavala>the impact of another minority. <v Val Zavala>I'm Val Zavala. <v Joseph Benti>And I'm Joseph Benti. Experts project the fast growing Hispanic population is <v Joseph Benti>going to be the majority by the year 2000. <v Joseph Benti>That fact is not lost on all the rest of Southern California. <v Val Zavala>This program looks at Compton, a microcosm of the Southland's fast changing, <v Val Zavala>ethnically diverse neighborhoods, from city council to high school proms. <v Val Zavala>The new faces and names are apparent. <v Val Zavala>It's a city facing new cultural realities as demographic shifts determine <v Val Zavala>the color of power. <v Duncan>Hi.

<v Omar Bradley>Hello, Mr. Duncan, how are you? <v Woman>Hi, brother. [Indistinct conversation] <v Val Zavala>Omar Bradley. <v Omar Bradley>You already probably know me. <v Duncan>Yeah. <v Val Zavala>A high school teacher. <v Omar Bradley>You were probably watching the Laker game. <v Duncan>Yeah! Lakers all the way. <v Val Zavala>Campaigning all the way to Compton City Hall. <v Omar Bradley>I'm running for councilman in this district. <v Duncan>Yes sir, I- <v Speaker>And I sure would appreciate your support, if you would help me. <v Val Zavala>Pedro Pallan, [Mr. Pallan says, "803"], a bakery owner <v Val Zavala>pounding the pavement. <v Pedro Pallan>Good evening, Mr. Reed. [Indistinct conversation] <v Val Zavala>To capture that same city council seat. <v Val Zavala>. <v Val Zavala>If he wins, he'll be the first Latino elected to the council. <v Val Zavala>The prize is the first district in Compton, a city where an African-American <v Val Zavala>stronghold is confronting an exploding Hispanic population. <v Pedro Pallan>I believe they see the writing on the wall. They see the demographics changing very <v Pedro Pallan>rapidly and uh do not want to share the power. <v Omar Bradley>I think the black community to a certain extent feels threatened <v Omar Bradley>because they are being told that Latinos are out populating <v Omar Bradley>them and that eventually this community would be a Latino town.

<v Val Zavala>Whoever wins this race will help govern a city with a stormy civil rights history. <v Val Zavala>Over the past 40 years, Compton has gone from an all white enclave to <v Val Zavala>a city dominated by African-Americans and now challenged by a growing Latino <v Val Zavala>population. <v Val Zavala>Prom night at Compton Centennial High, Sergio <v Val Zavala>and Elizabeth, Arthur and Bridgette, two couples tied for a run <v Val Zavala>off for prom king and queen. <v Woman>Sign here. [Indistinct conversation]. <v Val Zavala>Although they say there are no racial tensions, they come from a high school where <v Val Zavala>Latinos and African-Americans seldom mix, where teachers must <v Val Zavala>assign seats to get the two groups to sit together. <v Teacher>Lakeisha? <v Val Zavala>For many students, the victor in this prom race will show who reigns at Centennial <v Val Zavala>High.

<v Val Zavala>100 years ago, at Compton's only schoolhouse, you couldn't find a single <v Val Zavala>black face, but according to longtime residents, Latinos were accepted <v Val Zavala>in white schools. <v Jane Robbins>We've always had Latinos. <v Jane Robbins>They-they were here to begin with. <v Jane Robbins>As I said, I went through school with Latinos. <v Val Zavala>Jane Robbins is a Compton City Council person. <v Val Zavala>Her father was Compton's first mayor. <v Val Zavala>In fact, the city council he headed in 1933 was all white. <v Val Zavala>Then in the 1940s and 50s, factories, more than 160 <v Val Zavala>of them sprung up around Compton. <v Val Zavala>Blacks came in search of steady jobs and suburban living. <v Val Zavala>But instead, just like the strict segregation of the South, they found racism. <v Maxcy Filer>They didn't serve colored in the restaurants. <v Maxcy Filer>That was the phrase that they used. <v Maxcy Filer>And they, of course, enforced that we couldn't get a haircut in the barber

<v Maxcy Filer>shops, we had to have our own. <v Maxcy Filer>And we couldn't go to the churches, we had to have our own churches. <v Val Zavala>Maxcy Filer was head of the Compton NAACP in the 1960s and 70s. <v Val Zavala>He also served 15 years on Compton City Council. <v Val Zavala>He remembers how in the 1950s blacks had to leave the white areas of town <v Val Zavala>before nightfall or get arrested by police. <v Maxcy Filer>They had uh speaker on top of the police car <v Maxcy Filer>and they would, of course, hurried us past Rosecrans and <v Maxcy Filer>all blacks had to go past Rosecrans. <v Jane Robbins>I know, that then we had a racist police chief that it was <v Jane Robbins>our right for them to come in and come to school during the daytime, <v Jane Robbins>but when it got dark, they were to be out of town. <v Maxcy Filer>It was really a segregated city at that particular time. <v Maxcy Filer>There were no blacks working for the city of Compton, not on the police <v Maxcy Filer>department.

<v Val Zavala>And it wasn't just the police department. <v Val Zavala>Filer picketed the Bank of America to hire minorities and joined in protests <v Val Zavala>against Woolworth's to allow blacks to sit at his lunch counters. <v Val Zavala>He protested against residential restrictive covenants, homeowner deeds which allowed <v Val Zavala>only whites or Caucasians to buy property. <v Val Zavala>He says the NAACP asked Hispanics to join in the fight, but they refused. <v Maxcy Filer>We asked them and we sought them out, but they said it <v Maxcy Filer>wasn't their fight. They said that their fight was different from <v Maxcy Filer>ours and they didn't have a problem. <v Maxcy Filer>We had the problem. <v Manuel Pastor>Those charges are rooted in the fact <v Manuel Pastor>that African-Americans took a leadership role in the civil rights movement and- <v Val Zavala>Manuel Pastor, an economics professor at Occidental College, acknowledges <v Val Zavala>that Latinos did not join the early civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s. <v Manuel Pastor>The 1960s was a time for Chicanos to come into their own. <v Manuel Pastor>Some people began to define themselves and began to realize

<v Manuel Pastor>the possibilities to come together as a community. <v Manuel Pastor>I think that the criticism doesn't place enough attention to the need for the Chicano <v Manuel Pastor>community to first define itself, define its own issues, particularly during the latter <v Manuel Pastor>part of the 1960s into the 1970s, before it could really come together to work <v Manuel Pastor>with other forces. <v Val Zavala>In 1958, Filers scored a major victory. <v Val Zavala>His NAACP group moved the first black family into Compton's white neighborhoods. <v Val Zavala>They did it by finding whites who would help with what's known as a double escrow. <v Val Zavala>Whites called it blockbusting. <v Maxcy Filer>A double escrow is a white will go and purchase the house from a white, <v Maxcy Filer>and at the same time, they will have another escrow going in order to sell <v Maxcy Filer>it to the black. <v Val Zavala>As soon as the first black family moved into this house on Palmer Street, trouble <v Val Zavala>started. <v Maxcy Filer>And once they found out that a black had bought the particular house, that's when they <v Maxcy Filer>put the hose in the mailbox and ran it all over his floor, and <v Maxcy Filer>of course, he had to get new flooring and things like that.

<v Maxcy Filer>Then when he moved in, we would sit up nights in his living <v Maxcy Filer>room and guard it so that they would not burn his house down. <v Maxcy Filer>There were many crosses burned and things of that nature. <v Val Zavala>As blacks moved in, whites moved out, and according to Filer, so <v Val Zavala>did a lot of Hispanics. <v Maxcy Filer>They were moving faster than the whites when we moved in. <v Maxcy Filer>They, of course, at that time were considered as white by the Census <v Maxcy Filer>Bureau and they classified them as white. <v Maxcy Filer>So they were running faster than the whites. <v Val Zavala>The 1950 census listed only two categories: white and nonwhite. <v Val Zavala>Nonwhite were Negroes, Indians, Japanese, and Chinese. <v Val Zavala>All other nationalities, including Latinos, were in the white classification. <v Val Zavala>By 1961, the first black was elected to Compton City Council. <v Val Zavala>Four years later, the Watts riots broke out. <v Val Zavala>Fires and looting came within a mile of the Compton city limits and sparked the second

<v Val Zavala>wave of white flight. <v Maxcy Filer>Whites left in droves, it was one of those things you would look <v Maxcy Filer>up today and a whole community was gone. <v Val Zavala>Almost as quickly a black majority appeared on the Compton City Council and <v Val Zavala>has remained there ever since. <v Val Zavala>Today, 80 percent of all city jobs are held by African-Americans. <v Val Zavala>But while blacks were solidifying their power throughout the 1970s and 80s, the Latino <v Val Zavala>population was growing. Currently, about 40 percent of Compton's population <v Val Zavala>is Latino, but they only hold 10 percent of the city's jobs. <v Pedro Pallan>In any political power, no one gives <v Pedro Pallan>anything. Nothing is given or shared, you have to take it. <v Pedro Pallan>707. <v Val Zavala>One of the first things Pedro Pallan wants to do if he is elected is implement a strong <v Val Zavala>affirmative action hiring plan for Latinos. <v Pedro Pallan>The personnel commission is segregated.

<v Pedro Pallan>It's completely black. <v Pedro Pallan>The Planning Commission, many important commissions within the city of Compton <v Pedro Pallan>are uh predominantly black or all black. <v Joe Ochoa>Have you heard- this is Joe from Pedro Pallan campaign. <v Val Zavala>Joe Ochoa, Pallan's chief fundraiser claims Compton's black power base <v Val Zavala>gives special treatment to African-Americans when they apply for jobs. <v Joe Ochoa>Thank you very much [Indistinct conversations]. <v Joe Ochoa>They'll come in ?inaudible? Because it seems to be that if you're black, you're <v Joe Ochoa>qualified. If you're running any other color, you're not. <v Speaker>Yes, Mr. Mayor, Council members. <v Val Zavala>Compton's mayor, Walter Tucker, plans to address Latino concerns in an upcoming <v Val Zavala>summit between the two groups. <v Walter Tucker>We are definitely in the city of Compton are going to be sensitive to the needs of our <v Walter Tucker>community, which, let's face it, is majority African-American. <v Walter Tucker>But by the same token, I think that we have the type of leadership in place now realizing <v Walter Tucker>the changes that says we can come to the table and also respond to it

<v Walter Tucker>in a fair way, respond to the needs of our Latino brothers. <v Val Zavala>While Compton's Hispanic population has doubled in the last 10 years, its <v Val Zavala>African-American population dropped nearly 20%. <v Val Zavala>Nowhere is the change more apparent than in the school system. <v Val Zavala>And that's one of the reasons why Elizabeth is running for prom queen at Centennial <v Val Zavala>High. [Dialogue in Spanish]. <v Interviewer>How did you decide to run? <v Elizabeth>My sister told me to run. <v Elizabeth's Sister>I got her into it. <v Elizabeth's Sister>The reason I got her into it, because I said, you know, those non-Mexicans running and <v Elizabeth's Sister>she had a pretty good chance of winning. <v Elizabeth's Sister>So I told her go for it you know and so she signed up for it. <v Elizabeth's Sister>And you know, she got into it too. <v Elizabeth>We have the vote and the prom at 10 o'clock. <v Elizabeth>It's going to be a lot of Chicanos. Yeah, mostly all my friends. <v Elizabeth>So I have a lot of Latino friends. <v Elizabeth's Sister>[Indistinct conversation] You ready to put on your dress now?

<v Elizabeth's Sister>So at the prom they're supposed to see who wins. <v Elizabeth's Sister>She got a good, pretty chance. But you know let's just see what happens. <v Val Zavala>[Indistinct conversation] Arthur, one of the prom king candidates, is also counting <v Val Zavala>his votes. <v Man>Yeah, you ready to get out. <v Arthur>They was calling the names and uh they say Arthur Satterfield. <v Arthur>So I was like all right, there my brother said, you go get it, you go get it. <v Arthur>You know, I came home and my friend came by and he told me that it was a tie out of <v Arthur>me and uh <v Arthur>Sergio, Sergio. <v Arthur>And I was like, oh ok. And that day I thought about, well, there's not going to be too <v Arthur>many Hispanics at the prom. <v Arthur>That's where there's going to be to vote. So I feel I got the upper hand and I'll still <v Arthur>pull it off, so hoping to win. <v Arthur>[Indistinct conversation between Arthur's family] <v Arthur>I know a lot of Hispanics I have in my classes and we work together, but still

<v Arthur>I don't know if they will vote or not for me. <v Arthur>They're going to pick the best man, hopefully it's me. <v Val Zavala>Although Latinos may not turn out in great numbers at the prom, they are the majority <v Val Zavala>at Compton's schools and they're demanding more representation at all levels of the <v Val Zavala>school district's hierarchy. <v Joe Ochoa>Since we're 54% of the school district, why don't we have more minority teachers? <v Joe Ochoa>Why don't we have role model? <v Val Zavala>Ochoa wants more bilingual teachers to help new students from Mexico and South America. <v Omar Bradley>Blacks still have a very difficult time mastering the English language, and there was <v Omar Bradley>never any programs instituted to make sure that we could master English. <v Omar Bradley>Lets get people on the phones. <v Val Zavala>Council candidate Bradley says many African-American students feel neglected <v Val Zavala>because materials and services are being provided in Spanish. <v Campaign Worker>He's a school teacher right now and-. <v Omar Bradley>Their needs are being met while the students who are African-Americans, their needs <v Omar Bradley>are going unmet, and-and um unnoticed and

<v Omar Bradley>one old man asked me the other day, he says, Bradley, the only thing I can say is how <v Omar Bradley>do you think Mexico would respond if three million black people showed up one day? <v Omar Bradley>Would they go through extraordinary means to prepare their educational system to <v Omar Bradley>take care of African-Americans? <v Val Zavala>June 4th, Election Day for Compton City Council positions. <v Val Zavala>[Indistinct conversation] Overall, voter turnout is <v Val Zavala>low, but 63% of the Latinos who are eligible to vote are at <v Val Zavala>the polls. <v Val Zavala>While only 12% of African-Americans are showing up. <v Poll Worker>We'll be counting the ballots right here tonight. <v Val Zavala>By 8:00 P.M., all polling places are closed and the city clerk starts the count. <v City Clerk>15 total ballots cast, 106 registration, <v City Clerk>919 turnout. <v City Clerk>11.6% Percent. First ?district? Pallan 41, <v City Clerk>Bradley, 60.

<v City Clerk>Total ballots cast was four thousand six hundred seventy-four <v City Clerk>4,674. <v City Clerk>Pallan, one thousand five hundred seventy-seven, 1,577. <v City Clerk>Bradley, two thousand nine hundred and <v City Clerk>four, [Crowd cheers] 2,904. <v Omar Bradley>The people have spoken. I think they've spoken in clear and concise ways <v Omar Bradley>that they want to see Omar Bradley lead Compton into the future. <v Pedro Pallan>What's next for me? <v Pedro Pallan>Well, I have three and a half years <v Pedro Pallan>for the next time. <v Interviewer>You're going to run again? <v Pedro Pallan>Yes, absolutely. <v Val Zavala>In future elections, Pallan expects more support as Latinos who have applied

<v Val Zavala>for amnesty become eligible to vote. <v Pedro Pallan>You have in Compton, approximately I heard about 15,000 <v Pedro Pallan>of them that are on amnesty, and within five years <v Pedro Pallan>they will be eligible to become citizens. <v Walter Tucker>African-Americans have fought hard in the city of Compton and in other cities <v Walter Tucker>all around the country and to gain political clout and political <v Walter Tucker>representation. And I don't think that anyone is going to easily say <v Walter Tucker>we're just going to leave everything that we've struggled so hard to gain. <v Joe Ochoa>This is their last stronghold. When they lose this ground, they've lost it. <v Worker at Prom>Elizabeth, Sergio. <v Worker at Prom>Elizabth, Sergio. <v Worker at Prom>Elizabeth, Sergio. <v Prom Announcer>This is the first time that we've had a tie for king

<v Prom Announcer>and queen. <v Prom Announcer>Very unusual. So they're all winners already, let's give them a hand. <v Prom Announcer>[Crowd claps] <v Prom Announcer>The winners are Bridget Westbrook <v Prom Announcer>and Arthur Satterfield. [Crowd cheers] <v Prom Announcer>Ladies and Gentlemen, let's congratulate our prom king and queen as they take their <v Prom Announcer>ceremonial walk around the stage. <v Prom Announcer>?Then? They'll walk around the floor. <v Arthur>It was I-I think it was expected on my part. <v Bridget>It was expected on my part too. <v Bridget>I'm just happy that, you know [Arthur says "Me too."]. <v Sergio>I feel all right, but I mean, I guess if I had bad luck, I guess <v Sergio>that's about it.

<v Sergio>Guess they wanted more for him. [Photographer says, "2, 3! snaps photo and then says "Good."] <v Walter Tucker>I believe that there's a tremendous potential. <v Walter Tucker>Being an optimist for the two cultures to learn more about one another and as <v Walter Tucker>minorities, to realize that we both have struggles, we both have certain concerns, <v Walter Tucker>and we've got to come to the table and coexist in-in this <v Walter Tucker>inner city community. <v Val Zavala>And now to Joseph and guest Jane Robbins, councilperson representing Compton's 4th <v Val Zavala>district. Omar Bradley's city councilman from Compton's 1st District, <v Val Zavala>and Pedro Pallan, community activist. <v Joseph Benti>I'd like to ask you all a general question, beginning with you, Mr. Pallan, about the <v Joseph Benti>election.

<v Joseph Benti>What do you think it means for-for you, for Compton and for the future? <v Pedro Pallan>I feel very good about our last campaign, and as much as I believe <v Pedro Pallan>we brought out 50% to 60% of the Latino vote, yes, I <v Pedro Pallan>did garner some black votes, <v Pedro Pallan>African-American votes. <v Pedro Pallan>I feel that uh we were successful in <v Pedro Pallan>um awakening or-or-or causing an <v Pedro Pallan>awareness in the Latino community in regards to to the voting. <v Pedro Pallan>We even had classes. <v Pedro Pallan>We rented a vote recorder from the register recorder's office. <v Pedro Pallan>We showed people that hadn't voted for years how to come in and punch <v Pedro Pallan>the little cards. We showed them how to vote by mail, absentee <v Pedro Pallan>ballots. <v Pedro Pallan>We may have lost the battle, but we didn't lose the war. <v Pedro Pallan>And I-and I think we were tremendously successful in bringing out the <v Pedro Pallan>50% to 60% of the Latino voters.

<v Joseph Benti>Could you take a quick look at the future? Is that is that the biggest lesson you gained <v Joseph Benti>from the election, that Latino voters will come out? <v Pedro Pallan>Yes. <v Joseph Benti>And are going to come out? <v Pedro Pallan>Yes, I believe that uh with the election of Gloria <v Pedro Pallan>Molina, supervisor, it has caused a tremendous <v Pedro Pallan>awareness in the Latino community about political power. <v Joseph Benti>Mrs. Robbins, what did you take away from the election besides the victory? <v Jane Robbins>I think that it is a coming new <v Jane Robbins>generation. <v Jane Robbins>I think that they are still learning how <v Jane Robbins>it is to be able to live in the city of Compton and got along with <v Jane Robbins>one another and not be disagreeable. <v Jane Robbins>You can disagree, but you can't be disagreeable. <v Joseph Benti>You think that'll spread over California in the future? <v Jane Robbins>I think it will, it's got to. <v Jane Robbins>Otherwise, we might as well cross ourselves off as being a state. <v Joseph Benti>Mr. Bradley, what's your lesson from the election?

<v Omar Bradley>Well, interestingly enough, I'd like to thank Mr. Pallan and the Latino community <v Omar Bradley>for sticking together and running a clean campaign. <v Omar Bradley>I think the term we, as referred to <v Omar Bradley>by Mr. Pallan as Latinos, has awakened the African-American community that <v Omar Bradley>it's okay for us to organize and for us to unify and for us to protect <v Omar Bradley>those things that we have fought for, and I think that when we <v Omar Bradley>as a community, Latino, white and black, <v Omar Bradley>begin to use the term we for all the people rather than segments, <v Omar Bradley>then we began to create the kind of atmosphere where we can have positive dialog <v Omar Bradley>for what's best for the total community and not few or just <v Omar Bradley>segmented groups. <v Joseph Benti>Based on the election, do you see that as the future for Compton and Southern California? <v Omar Bradley>It depends on the attitude of the Hispanics. <v Omar Bradley>African-Americans are here, we were not here because we

<v Omar Bradley>were invited. We were stolen and brought to America and we have no Mexico <v Omar Bradley>to go to, and so we are going to dig in and begin to do the things <v Omar Bradley>that are necessary to make sure that we survive until the year 2000. <v Omar Bradley>And if the Latino community wants to share in that plan, then fine, <v Omar Bradley>we're willing to share it. <v Joseph Benti>Mrs. Robbins, when we talk about Compton and its political content having such an <v Joseph Benti>ethnic base or ethnic ingredient and you representing an obvious <v Joseph Benti>majority in ?certain? California, white population in a city that is predominantly <v Joseph Benti>minority, you've been elected many times. <v Joseph Benti>You were just re-elected in June and you've been on the city council <v Joseph Benti>for 15 years. How do you explain that? <v Jane Robbins>Well, probably because I am a third generation Comptonite. <v Jane Robbins>I have lived in Compton all my life. <v Jane Robbins>That's the only place I want to be, and I love it. <v Joseph Benti>So that cuts across all the ethnic considerations that may or may not be made by voters. <v Jane Robbins>That's very true.

<v Pedro Pallan>Jane said that she gets-she was re-elected because she's <v Pedro Pallan>third generation Comptonite. <v Pedro Pallan>I don't go along with that, Jane is re-elected because <v Pedro Pallan>she is sensitive to the concerns of the community. <v Joseph Benti>And that cuts across ethnic ingredients? <v Pedro Pallan>Absolutely. <v Joseph Benti>Do you agree with that, Mr. Bradley? <v Omar Bradley>I agree to a certain extent. <v Omar Bradley>I think that uh Miss Robbins re-election indicates that African-Americans <v Omar Bradley>who are the predominant population in Compton have the ability to see <v Omar Bradley>beyond race, and it is that ability that makes <v Omar Bradley>Compton such a unique place. <v Omar Bradley>With so much emphasis on the growing Hispanic community, the African-American <v Omar Bradley>community has been very gracious and graceful with its relationship <v Omar Bradley>with both communities, European-Americans as well as <v Omar Bradley>Mexican-Americans. So I think it's indicative of our desire to share <v Omar Bradley>in whatever wealth the city has.

<v Joseph Benti>Now my understanding is that if I looked at it from your campaign strategy and <v Joseph Benti>the charges you made and others of the Hispanic community, that what you said is not <v Joseph Benti>interpreted that way by members of the Hispanic community, especially political <v Joseph Benti>leadership, that it is time for Compton to share with votes on the city council <v Joseph Benti>and representation the largesse of government. <v Joseph Benti>Would you agree with that, that Hispanics should be on the city council? <v Omar Bradley>I agree that Hispanics should have the opportunity <v Omar Bradley>to share in whatever facilities are there provided by the city as <v Omar Bradley>well as representation. <v Omar Bradley>I do not share the feeling that African-Americans should <v Omar Bradley>be made to feel as though they should <v Omar Bradley>accommodate those needs just because these people are <v Omar Bradley>Hispanic. You have to realize that politics is a game <v Omar Bradley>that requires people to compete, and competition, <v Omar Bradley>I have found cuts through color lines.

<v Omar Bradley>So I am not going to say that I am not a qualified candidate or <v Omar Bradley>I'm not going to run because I'm black and Mr. Pallan is Hispanic. <v Omar Bradley>I'm going to do the best job that I can do as a person. <v Omar Bradley>And if I just so happen to be running against this, a Hispanic, it should not matter. <v Pedro Pallan>I would like to respond to some of the questions that you asked Mr. Bradley. <v Pedro Pallan>In regards to-to a campaign being challenging. <v Pedro Pallan>Yes, it's very true, but in the city of Compton, <v Pedro Pallan>it's very unique city. There's two so-called minorities, the <v Pedro Pallan>African-American and the Latino communities. <v Pedro Pallan>But Compton at this point does not have an Affirmative <v Pedro Pallan>Action program. There's only a statement and <v Pedro Pallan>we have no representation. <v Pedro Pallan>City manager's office, city attorney's office, personnel department, <v Pedro Pallan>planning departments, all departments throughout the city. <v Pedro Pallan>This-.

<v Joseph Benti>Can that only change by electing an Hispanic? <v Pedro Pallan>No, no, no. It can change by the community getting together <v Pedro Pallan>and demanding the same rights as the African-American <v Pedro Pallan>community has demanded and fought for ever since the civil <v Pedro Pallan>rights movement. <v Joseph Benti>How does the Hispanic get what the black Compton resident was looking for 25 years ago? <v Omar Bradley>I think we have to begin a new decade and a new era of sharing. <v Joseph Benti>OK. <v Omar Bradley>And once we begin to share, the word "take" will dissolve. <v Joseph Benti>Do you think that's pie in the sky Mrs. Robbins, you've been around, is that or is that <v Joseph Benti>realistic in Compton and for Southern California? <v Jane Robbins>Well, it's probably more realistic then in Compton than anyplace. <v Joseph Benti>Forgive me for not having more time. Thank you, the three of you for sharing with us what <v Joseph Benti>is the present of Compton and possibly the future of all of Southern California. <v Joseph Benti>Now let's go back to Val for a look at next week's broadcast. <v Val Zavala>Anglos are quickly becoming the minority on local college campuses. <v Val Zavala>The new majority are students of color, but is the curriculum keeping pace with a diverse

<v Val Zavala>population? We'll explore that in Diversity University next <v Val Zavala>week on By the Year 2000. <v TV Speaker>Major funding for by the year 2000 is provided by the Michael <v TV Speaker>J. Connell Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation. <v TV Speaker>Additional funding is provided by Kaiser Permanente working with Southern California <v TV Speaker>for a healthier tomorrow, and the Norris Foundation, <v TV Speaker>which is pleased to recognize public television as an important and vital community <v TV Speaker>resource with a supporting grant from the Earth Technology Corporation.