you can go look that up and there was also the thurgood marshall police riot and i was the ptsa president of that high school when that happened and it was tragic and there are many things that have been tragic but we made certain that we passed that so these kinds of things wouldn't happen. and i came to speak to you just to remind you if you didn't know that there is still an audience for this city now so somehow maybe you didn't read it but it was specific. >> so this couldn't happen. and so if you're doing this it goes against that ordinance that exists here in san francisco and i don't think you want to do that not as duly elected folks over the last thing i did i didn't e thank you, kim sheriff's office. >> nice to see you. thank you. >> welcome to our next speaker . hi, isha humphrey. i wasn't planning to speak today but i felt compelled to express my gratitude to commissioner carter ober stone for being a leader with such principle and integrity. i think that we have been lucky to have someone with his expertise who has been willing to lend that to us to serve this city. he's been

so we know the leaders were people like thurgood marshall, martin luther king, medgar evers.ook about the role of shirley and other black women. so when we look historically about how black people have had to save this country. so time and time again, black women have been the leaders. and that's why your voice is so important. >> can you say this, though, that, you know, as a non-black person at the table, people like me got to not rely on black women to do the work for them because they did their job. they did their job this last. >> let me get let me get ruth in here on this, because black women are leading a movement right now against target. target is suffering economically because they said, we're not going to shop there. if you're not going to do dei, you don't need our dei dollars. so goodbye. and so you are seeing these sort of micro resistance movements that are against specific companies and saying, we're going to choose costco instead. does that work on a bigger scale? if it's individual attacks on individual corporate entities, does that can that metastasize, to

since our founding 85 years ago by thurgood marshall, we have fought to ensure that black students, and indeed all students, have equal access to education. 70 years ago, the supreme court's unanimous decision in brown versus board of education ended legal racialization in public schools. writing for the majority, chief justice warren said that equal public education is the very foundation of good citizenship. public education is critical to the health of our economy, and it is essential to the viability of our multiracial democracy. sadly, brown's mandate to provide all students with quality learning experiences that respect their full humanity, intelligence and dignity regardless of their race, ethnicity, or gender identity, or ability, is under fierce attack. under the guise of promoting so-called school choice or parental rights, has emerged a reincarnated massive resistance to high quality, equitable, and inclusive public education that performs for all. this massive resistance 2.0 seeks to achieve what george wallace and his extremist act lights could not, the hoarding of public r

we also know the legal defense fund's thurgood marshall institute has done research that proves thatn black students are taught by black teachers and are taught by a more diverse faculty, their achievement soars. and if we want to invest in our students, we want to invest in a diverse faculty as well. >> thank you. this isn't just about who's in the classroom. it's also about which institutions are being given the resources to uplift black students, hbcu's make up 3% of college in america, but we're producing 17% of all black bachelor's degree graduates, 24% of black stem degree graduates, 40% of black engineers. ms. nelson, how are hbcu's uniquely positioned to support the growth and development of black students and their communities? if you can be brief, i have more questions. >> sure, hbcu's have long punched above their weight, despite the fact that they've been depraved of adequate financing. we know that 13e $13 billion of land grants have not been distributed to the institutions that deserve them bring man tate of statute. hbcu's deserve greater investment they not only deliv

statues of roger were removed over history and that the law school name for him was renamed after thurgood marshalli want to quote something that a recent guest on this program wrote in one of her columns. peggy was on to talk about her book, a certain idea of america, and in that book, she included a column called against the tear it down movement. want to get your take on this. she writes, and once the teang down of statutes starts, there is no knowing where will end. edmund burke famously said we have a duty to the past, the present, and the future. in the minds of the tear downers, only the president -- present is important and only your higher morality. guest: i can see where she is coming from. i can totally see what she is saying that their presentism gets in the way of seeing that arc of history. i do also understand this idea that statues are meant to elevate somebody to a special status, that we don't put up statues of hitler's. we don't put up statues of villains from history. we don't put up statues of people like benedict arnold and think to ourselves that this is a guy who needs a sta

and then thurgood marshall is saying, well, this is a conundrum for us. and butting heads yet again ultimately chose to do so. here we are in a third moment in history. everything happens in threes where the supreme court could very well or a lower court say, listen, we have an agreement, co-equal branch of government. the agreement is called the constitution. but the only real mechanism here is normally that second, that that now third branch of government, the legislative branch saying, well, we could impeach you if you don't abide by the supreme court. that's not going to go over well with this congress or it's the voluntary compliance or even a lower courts ruling. all of this, i say to suggest it is no man's land here. and the wild, wild west. when a head executive branch office like the president, united states does not abide by the rules of law. >> yeah. it's amazing. lance trevor, let me get your thoughts on this. why is the trump administration even suggesting suggesting they could defy court orders? >> well. >> i mean, as was noted, alyssa said

martin luther king jr., thurgood marshall, other civil rights leaders of the day. in 1975 the united states senate created the frank church committee and they disclosed widespread abuses by the fbi and other u.s. intelligence agencies. the church committee concluded these agencies have engaged in illegal surveillance and as a result "groups and individuals have been assaulted, oppressed, harassed and disrupted because of their political views, social beliefs, and their lifestyles." in the intelligence agencies have served the political and personal objectives of presidents and other high officials. the hoover era of the fbi, the watergate scandal, of the findings of the church committee highlighted the risk of political interference in fbi investigations that led to significant important reform. in 1976, congress passed a law that limits the fbi director to a single term of 10 years, which was intended to insulate that position from political influence. and critically we made the fbi director's appointment subject to the advice and consent of the senate, which is w

you can go look that up and there was also the thurgood marshall police riot and i was the ptsa president of that high school when that happened and it was tragic and there are many things that have been tragic but we made certain that we passed that so these kinds of things wouldn't happen. and i came to speak to you just to remind you if you didn't know that there is still an audience for this city now so somehow maybe you didn't read it but it was specific. >> so this couldn't happen. and so if you're doing this it goes against that ordinance that exists here in san francisco and i don't think you want to do that not as duly elected folks over the last thing i did i didn't e thank you, kim sheriff's office. >> nice to see you. thank you. >> welcome to our next speaker . hi, isha humphrey. i wasn't planning to speak today but i felt compelled to express my gratitude to commissioner carter ober stone for being a leader with such principle and integrity. i think that we have been lucky to have someone with his expertise who has been willing to lend that to us to serve this city. he's been

it's a hard no they can go through w uh hi joe ekstrom assistant principal at thurgood marshall academic high school. we started this meeting talking about safety and making sure our students are safe at school and the the folks that have but the lord the folks that help create that safety are social workers, are our counselors, our system principals. these are the people that are going to the iep meetings. these are the people that are supporting our students after drills are happening after the scare of ice is at our doors, they're going to our wellness centers, they're talking to our counselors and when we're talking about putting those folks who are essential to supporting our students, we're talking about cutting support for most of my students, our vocal students 60% of my students are newcomers. 40% of my students come from the other 40% come from the neighborhoods and the bayview hunters point and about 35% of that 40% have our rfps. they need that support. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. i'm going to call the final group for agenda items. sabrina bellara rosie nicholas chen, k