But if anyone is going to be inconvenienced, it shouldnt be the people it should be the servants of the peopl people who should be inconvenienced. I would not be foolish enough to say anything important about racism in one minute. And then to cut people off mid sentence only speaks to the frustration that people of color feel living in a racist society. It ex asser bases it, increases it. You need to it would be better to bring us to say everybody support it stand up and everybody that doesnt sit down and you can go home and take care of your business. My given name is patricia and farrell. I have a legal name. I dont know what to think. My parents in 1948 were the first interracial couple to be married in the San Francisco county history if not the United States. He was negro, she was a white woman. I havent heard anyone say anything about inter race, there are many people who dont know their races. There needs to be education on all sides. Everybody has been separate for whatever rac
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
Prove it this is going to stick around then maybe ill invest in it myself. I think we have early adopters. We call them lowhanging fruit and people that are more cautious and thats fine. They have to be around it. They have to experience it and taste it and feel it themselves then we have people who are no matter what you say, its going to feel like we are giving special attention to some people and not others because they have trauma. And we have to work on that. So we have to it is a horizontal approach but its bottomtoop. I think the 2pointal , theyre the people that have a hard time trusting that we mean what we say. There is no funding. Were doing it from the inside out. Its not like were going to lose funding. Were doing it. This is not costing a lot of money to the department. Were not relying on external grants or consultants or anybody coming in from different parts of the droin. Were doing it ourselves. No matter who leaders are, we want to create the change and embed it into
Were going to move forward and close that gap. So i andres, thank you. I also want to knowledge some of our amazing partners in moving this legislation forward. Equal rights advocates, legal aid society, Employment Law center, opportunity inst. , california work and family coalition, banned parenthood, which is spontaneously endorsed the legislation. We didnt even talk about they just went ahead and did it so thank you planned Parenthood Department on the status woman dr. Murawski avenue commission the bay area council, for helping us work really through some of the issues with the business community. And by right which was doing this before they were required to do it. So this is a great day and thank you by much everyone. [applause] mayor lee the faster i sign this the faster entrees will get reimbursed. [laughter] mayor lee there you go. [applause] [ gavel ] supervisor katy tang welcome, everyone good morning. Welcome to our april 28th, 2016, meeting. To my left is supervisor eric m