please acknowledge your next awardee, reverend arnold townsend.lause] >> he told me brief, good luck with that. i am a preacher. this is what i do. and if you want me to be brief, don't give me a microphone. [laughter] >> no, i will be brief today, not tomorrow. let me just say, thank you so much for this. i am just so grateful, chief, that in my mind, thinking about the sfpd involved in putting together black history presentation, that says to me, we've come a long way. we have a ways to go. but you heard people talking about all the community leaders that got together some years ago, when it was rough in the fillmore. it was so rough in fillmore, one night i had on my shawn john sweatsuit, and that was in style then, and my jordans, and i went to safeway one night, in one young fella says you look like a youngster, and i said in my head, i am not walking down the street with this on anymore, and because it was that bad, in our community, and along with the community folks that you heard talk about, and many of who weren't mentioned, and the depa

now i think it is particularly fitting that my friend reverend arnold townsend come up and lead us and maybe a little bit of prayer. i mean i don't know that anybody who speaks for the western addition better or longer than arnold. arnold about thank you. and it's just wonderful to see everyone and let me say a couple of things real quick. i know that you all and sitting looking at me and that what you're really thinking you know i've been last on the program before and when your last on the program. you know that everybody not just really just want you to hurry up shall i show. i am gonna do my best to hurry up let me shakeup but a couple of things. i'm glad you mentioned a bill to staff here because now i don't have to. i was going to do it. it was some outstanding. work going on we had to be tough to get it done but everyone did their job played the role of building i like you should we go back a very long ways he's not quite as old as i am but he's close see he's close and really you know we knew each other around the times the feinstein days in the mosque only and agnus days but w