She is a historian of race and migration in the United States , specializing in asianAmerican History. Chinese must go. Fmaps the tangled relationship between local racial violence, and u. S. Imperial ambitions. Williams earned her b. A. From Brown University and phd in history from stanford. I believe he just spoke at sanford this afternoon. Thank you, beth, for coming and speaking this evening with us. David has worked as a social worker in San Franciscos chinatown with atrisk youth before starting his business in 1981 in exporting Consumer Products to mexico. He sold his business in 2003 and retired at the end of 2005. So now we get to work with david all the time, which is really lovely. David has a passion for building communities, social change, and improvements, Youth Education , the arts. He actively participates in the following nonprofit. The chineseamerican community fund, the dance troupe, the academy of chinese performing arts, so many places. I think the center for asiana
Chair mar next speaker, please. Good afternoon, i am cheryl thornton. I work for the San Francisco Health Department for 28 years. I witnessed many black coworkers being subject to retaliation. My coworkers complained to city officials with no real relief. I appreciate this legislation. However, i dont think it goes far enough. I think we need more account ability. Otherwise we will see what we have seen in the past the disparities to one particular group of people. Chair mar thank you. I will use this as an example. This is get fiction. This is based on geographical location. You do it in areas that are predominantly black, not white. This is a legal attorney with the same philosophy as myself. He is suing washington d c because of discrimination against black people for 1 billion. I want several billion for what you did in the fillmore. About the Justice System you have mario woods paying her 400,000 for her son being murdered and shot. This hispanic was shot 20 times here is a chanc
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Ms. Jones. Thank you, ms. Jones. Next speaker, please. You know we cant tell you what we have been through. That is an example of it. You know what i mean . Thanthankthanthank you, mr. I will read additional names. Jessica malina, lewis dillon, amanda, ron, kevin and eddy. Next speaker. Am the youth organizer for the coleman advocates. I would like to echo everything the previous speaker said there is a Racial Disparity between the blacks and white could you tell uster parts and asian counterparts. In light of that i would like to say in each one of us there is a piece of humaneness which orchestrates crisis. If we are to keep it from establishing a false hierarchy we must recognize that any attack is an attack against all of us. We recognize our interests are not served by the systems we support. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor. I am an organizer with sf rising. We are here to support this proposed legislation. Thank you for
I have been at meetings with other city departments that referred to me as nonliving culture. I have been told our numbers are option too few to matter. We are number 10 in the nation for missing indigenous women. I look forward to working with and supporting the launch of this office. Thank you. We have a draft action plan. We aim to have the first phase by the end of this year and the second by next year after we do community engagement. We have been doing this for the last few years. This will give us more teeth to move pro actively by integrating into the projects or noticing and hiring practices. It is a long road to correct disparities but we are grateful that this will henr help the woe are doing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am bailey. I work for the District Attorney office. While working there my coworker called me a scary nigger. I am going to say what they called me a scary nigger. After being called that i was harassed daily. I asked for a copy of the report calling
World under the shadow of the statue of liberty, its often told as a very uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans, but not many of us know the history of immigration through angel island. This is the immigration station in San Francisco and its an important site not only for what happened back then in the early 20th century, but also because its so timely today. Its timely because when we pick up any newspaper we see headlines like this. This is just from last week. Republicans slam obamas immigration town hall. Obama ill fight any attempt to reverse immigration action. Moving forward to fix our broken immigration system. House conservatives warn boehner, dont cave on immigration. U. S. Immigration dispute, threatens security, agency shutdown. Does anyone know what some of these headlines are referring to last week . What was the big debate in congress . What was the proposed shutdown . Diego. They were posing to shut down dhs funding because of obamas executive