[laughter] no respect. [laughter] fortunate for al williams i m almost done. today we stand on the great shoulders of the folks that have come before us. and i wish you all a very happy and empowering black history month. i do have one piece of business that i d like to share with you. on tuesday, i, along with the co-sponsorship of supervisor breed introduced a resolution celebrating the 100th birthday of sister rosa parks and commemorating the modern civil rights leader for her courageous and declaring for her courageousness and declaring february 4th rosa parks day in san francisco. (applause) i thought you might like that. i m done. thank you. [laughter] thank you. supervisor. and now there are a couple other people, sheriff mirkarimi has joined us. [speaker not understood] is in the room with us as well. reverend amos brown is with us. welcome. (applause) now supervisor breed will bring us brief remarks. hi, everybody. (applause) so happy to see all your
good afternoon, everyone. all right. welcome to city hall and happy black history month here in san francisco. nobody got it better than san francisco. (applause) thank you, naomi. i want to thank you for that introduction and just a recall of what i said earlier this week. but i also said something else, too, that i want you to continuously know the way i have attempted to manage this great city of ours for everybody. that is, i m not shy about asking for help. and when it comes to the challenges we have in the african-american community, we need help. and i have been deliberately assembling a very important group of people who are going to help me get the job done. and you ve seen some of these people already. they are malia cohen, london breed at the board. they have to face all the different politics. but i know they re going to be great partners with me because we ve got the right objectives to happen. we want everybody included in the city. we have naomi kelly, harl
in looking at this effort. i have the honor today to introduce mayor ed lee who has made equality the cornerstone of his career. as a civil rights lawyer, he sued the housing authority to improve the standards of living for public housing tenants. and he also sued the fire department so women and people of color could get equal opportunity. as the director of this city s human rights commission, he expanded contracting opportunities for women and people of color. and today as mayor, he makes sure our city government reflects the diversity of this great city. on monday we were together, as i mentioned earlier, i college track on 3rd street in bayview where the mayor give his state of the city address. his administration s focus is on creating jobs, making sure that all of our residents have access to those jobs,st and from local hireness and job readiness, training and placement, we are moving towards equality for all with the mayor s leadership. ladies and gentlemen, i d like
supervisor breed, dr. amos brown, dr. honeycut, and all of you to look at our public housing and where do we see it going from here, and look into rethinking public housing so that it will be accessible for all people of all ethnicities of all races so that we all have dignity in where we live and what our future looks like. and, so, i look forward to working with all of you along with supervisor breed and cohen in looking at this effort. i have the honor today to introduce mayor ed lee who has made equality the cornerstone of his career. as a civil rights lawyer, he sued the housing authority to improve the standards of living for public housing tenants. and he also sued the fire department so women and people of color could get equal opportunity. as the director of this city s human rights commission, he expanded contracting opportunities for women and people of color. and today as mayor, he makes sure our city government reflects the diversity of this great city. on monday
important departments. and i ve got to say this. if we can t get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i don t know where else to look because this is a great start. yes. (applause) but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. and they are joining with me and with the supervisors and with the department heads to do what mrs. obama asked us to do. whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or throughout the nation, we do the right thing, we keep the doors of opportunity open a