Streets, our cells. We look at the painful past in order to learn i tions, the so controversial, why are so many people calling for it now . To examine that, we have to go back in time. 1526, the spanish bring 100 enslaved africans to what is now the carolinas and georgia. They were the first known slaves on american soil. We know what happened next. For the next 350 years, africans were enslaved, beaten, tortured and killed. They built the white house. They fought in wars. Their labor built the american economy. And then came the civil war and freedom. Promises of 40 acres and later on a mule. They were free, sort of. There were black codes, allowing black people to be arrested for things like being out at night or not working at a servant. And then there was jim crow. A set of laws that denied africanamericans all sorts of rights. If you violated them, it could get you arrested or even killed. Then, there were housing discrimination laws, and a practice called redlining, where federa
Supervisor walton. I want to thank the great folks at sfgovtv for staffing this. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you very much. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the legislative Committee Room is closed. This is taken pursuant to local state, federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meetings as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. The number is being streamed across the screen. Public comment is available by phone, by calling 408 4189 8 408 4189388. Once connected and prompted, todays i. D. Is 146789102. Press pound and then a second time. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussions. When your item comes up, dial star, followed by 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television,
That deep, deep research that goes to the bones of our country and unearths the things we are not interested in talking about. So im deeply thankful to richard and i am paying back the favor by being here in conversation with him. The second part of this is there is an notion i have been doing whatever i can to reverse this. We have conceived of ourselves as a country with a racial problem. Underneath of that is there notion is that there are pure races in this country, a white race from europe, a black race from africa, and asian race from asia a latino race that hails from, i dont quite know where. Increasingly in arab and muslim race. This is the path we are going down and what this language does is obscure the fact that race and racism in america is a done thing, that the name comes after the attempt to take something from somebody and what that allows us to do is feel like we are some sort of divine, god in with some sort of divine, god made problem when we are in fact dealing wit
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The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 9, 2020, regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Im supervisor mandelman. I chair this committee. Joined by supervisor stefani and supervisor walton. I want to thank the great folks at sfgovtv for staffing this. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you very much. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the legislative Committee Room is closed. This is taken pursuant to local state, federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meetings as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. The number is being streamed across the screen. Public comment is available by phone, by calling 408 4189 8 408 4189388. Once connected and prompted, todays i. D. Is 146789102. Press pound and then a second time. When connected, youll he