History and those policies. We need to atone for this harm. There is no simple solution to undo this pain. This will take continued organizing and work on behalf of our board, working handinhand with our local community. We need to acknowledge and address our past harm for a more hopeful future, and we also need better policies and funding to combat deep disparities in housing, health care, education, transportation, and employment. I hope that we can Work Together to take this first step and pass this legislation thinking. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I want to thank the supervisors and all the cosponsors for working hard to set up this office of racial equity, and as we continue to attempt to address the injustice and inequalities that exist in our city and work to achieve tangible outcomes from recommendations from reports such as the unfinished agenda and the outmigration report, this will finally give us a formal platform to adequately address these recommendations and requires
If you are utilizing interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and to display documents on the overhead projector. Just place it underneath the projector, mention it, then remove it when you like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Members of the board, my name is amos brown, im Senior Pastor of Third Baptist Church and president of the San Francisco branch. The National Association of the branch for coloured people and a former member of this body. I wish to say happy pride month to you. I give you this greeting against a backdrop, one of George Bernard shaw most eloquent quotes. When he said, the worst sin for our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be in different to them. That is the essence of inhumanity, end of quote. Now i do not make these comments to be insulting, but still a truth. Human beings can make oversights , but we do say, to air is human, but to give his divine. I would like to invite all of you to g
I would like to invite all of you to go and see the last black man in San Francisco. It is very chilling. But on this on this day in which we stand before this body, and i applauded the gay community. I was one of the first preachers to stand up against proposition eight. And other mentions for gay rights. But for us to acknowledge that community, and unfortunately, i did not hear of any measure. Finish your sentence. Around june, nothing was said that was indifference on the part of this body. This is the 400th year of the acknowledgement of the slave trade. We in San Francisco can do better than that. Thank you. I ask you, just a minute, i ask you to not be in different to these young men who are standing here, who fled with district five and our supervisor of the district to make sure that the africanamerican heritage building stays in the hands of that community. I was on that board when the late sue bierman initiated a measure to give the Asian Community their own library for a do
Rights. But for us to acknowledge that community, and unfortunately, i did not hear of any measure. Finish your sentence. Around june, nothing was said that was indifference on the part of this body. This is the 400th year of the acknowledgement of the slave trade. We in San Francisco can do better than that. Thank you. I ask you, just a minute, i ask you to not be in different to these young men who are standing here, who fled with district five and our supervisor of the district to make sure that the africanamerican heritage building stays in the hands of that community. I was on that board when the late sue bierman initiated a measure to give the Asian Community their own library for a dollar, and i supported her. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Thank you. We hope that this thank you, reverend brown [indiscernible] all right. Next speaker, please. [applause] i am a longtime resident of San Francisco. It is unfortunate that way only get we are asked if it is someth
A testament of the bravery of his parents who are immigrants from ethiopia. I know there are not any words take away the pain but i want to extend my deepest condolences to his family. His loss will be felt for years and the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor walton. Thank you. Supervisor yi. Yes, i would like to close todays meeting in memory of johanna frugui. She was the first person with a disability to attend the Public School system in her native greece. She was really a trailblazer from the start. Shes a graduate of cal berkley and pursued advocacy work at the well institute on disability. The pacific ada centre and the city of sacramento before joining the office 13 years ago. In this time, joanna played a leading role in ensuring that San Franciscos implementation of the americans with disabilities act was consistent with our citys progressive values. As a dedicated employee and as a woman with a disability, joanne thashe wasa strong believer thrh education and t