introduce myself to those of you who are new to advocacy and reintroduce myself to friends like joe hadachi who may have forgotten what drives me to serve on the police commission today. i stand before you as a long-time san francisco an, a resident of district 7, a father of three children in the public school system here ~, as a civil rights lawyer for more than 21 years, to ask for your endorsement to go forward to the san francisco police commission. my parents came to the u.s. as young immigrants in the early '60s and attended school in north carolina. i remember hearing stories from my mother of standing, of pausing before a public rest room and wondering if she was considered white or colored. both were active in community struggles at the time. i remember going to rallies and protests from an early age, protests such as the case of vincent chin, which i know supervisor mar has been very active in. my mom worked primarily as a public librarian a was growing up. my dad went on to research and became a teacher of math although i know his true love was creative writing. from my parents