College. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, there. My name is hawn. I teach at city college in the english department. I also want to thank the Community Members who have spoken in favor of reparations, and i stand in favor of reparations. And thank you for bringing that forward. So i am a lifelong student educator and Community Member in our Public Education system. And Public Education is the best thing thats ever happened to me and my family. And i want to just affirm that education is our right. I tell my students who come to my classes that they deserve the same opportunities as any stanford student. They just dont have the same resources. They deserve a library thats open till midnight. Their Library Closes at 6 45. And weve cut back on librarians. I want to talk about love. Because in my english 1 class, my freshman composition class, we read bell hooks all about love. We do a semester long investigation in love, on love and what is love. We learn that love is a choice. We
That say, you know, i cant because i want another opportunity to do it. Now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i dont have the class. And i dont want to say please i need your support to everybody to culminate together. Thats what i see, working with them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im a 2121 member, chapter president , San Francisco general first. I want to say that the staffing in Public Health needs to be fixed. Its outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, its terrible. People are calling in sick more, their productivity is going down. We are losing money, because things arent getting done properly because you dont have enough people to fix that problem. But im really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldnt get a house in San Francisco. He couldnt get a loan. We ended up in bay leaf city.
Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in