Hi, corwin so nice to hear your hi, corwin smaings . Aings oorsmirs missours nevada dance peerng. Welcome to the thursday november 5th meeting of the government audits and oversight. Supervisor gor gordthank you tos committees clerk, john carroll carol, and i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. In order to protect the Board Members and public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This precaution is taken to all state and federal orders and declarations and directives. Committee members will be participating in this meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present in our board chamber. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Both San Francisco cable channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org have a number across the korean. Screen. 4156550001. After youve dialed that number and connected to the call, youll be prompted to enter a meeting i. D. The i. D. Is 1465657778. After youve entered the meeting i. D. ,
Put that in the book because when i was in college i struggled with what i wanted to major in. And i was really torn between going into science and going into humanities of social scientists. And i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. My First Political science course we read all of the great political philosophers from plato on up. And they were all asking the question, what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people. In particularly to make justice. So i ended up, before i ended up deciding to be a Political Science major took this course. I took a had a lack of confidence in my school as a humanist or a social scientist because i did not get very good grades in those courses. But i got really good grades in my science and math courses. So it was kind of a dilemma. I took this Political Science class and i dont remember what
Schoolteacher and she was the family historian and my mothers family who were all in new orleans and she was the keeper of the lower among others are klansmen and she had some papers and files and she had a way of speaking about our Family History that was like this, the one to remember is are klansmen, my grandfather, he was a redeemer and the redemption returned white people to authority in new orleans after they had been Just Launched and if he had not acted in the battle of liberty we would not be here today, anyway, when she died her papers went to my mother and when my mother died, this is decades later, her files came to me, her files and this is how i rediscover the story of our klansmen and wrote about it. You remember your aunt maude, it sounds like she spoke of, say his name. Its spelled constance, he was a French Carpenter raised and spoke french. Is it fair to say in your family he was heroic. He was heroic for 100 years, as were the clans people, the klansmen for most, th
Reading your book. Its so intimate. I want to thank you for writing it. I am going to dive in. You received an emotional inheritance from your aunt. Tell our audience what it was, the physical inheritance and the family. When i was a boy in new orleans in the late 1960s, marx was a horn wasnt elderly retired schoolteacher and was an historian. We were all in new orleans and she was the keeper among others, of our klansmen. She had papers and files in had a way of speaking about our family, another one to remember is our klansmen, my grandfather he was a redeemer. The redemption returned like people after theyve been dislodged. If he had not there, who would not be here today. Anyway, when she died, her papers went to my mother and when my other died, decades later, her files came to me. This is how i rediscovered the story of our klansmen. You remember your aunt, youve emulated her well. Sounds like she spoke of, say the name constant was a french carpenter. Is there to say, he was her
Impacts the future of Artificial Intelligence. Hi deborah. Hello, so nice to meet you. I enjoyed your book. Thank you. I would like to start this interview by talking a little bit about you, i would like to know more about you but i would like the audience to hear the story which honestly frankly really offended me which is in your introduction, you got a note from a professor claiming that you would never be a political scientist, can you say a little bit about that. I put that in the book because when i was in college i struggled with what i wanted to major in, like most kids do in college and i was torn between going into science and going into humanities, social science and i finally decided on social science because i find those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent in my First Political science course we read all the great political philosophers from plato on out and they were all asking the question what is justice, good government, how can you organize governm