. >> thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha john baptiste and diane shaw the ac transit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. please respond when i call your name. >> chang. >> here. >> forbes. >> here. >> john baptiste. >> here. >> lipkin. >> present. >> shaw. >> here. >> tumlin. >> present. >> vice chair gee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. i will call your next item. >> item 3. communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment. to provide public comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code (182)585-8053. pound pound and listen as you wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have three minutes for each item. i will announce when public comment is open. general public comment callers dial star 3 to be added to the queue. this access code will stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. when callers dial star 3 they will be added in the order entered. all callers remain on mute until the line is ope

. >> thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha john baptiste and diane shaw the ac transit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. please respond when i call your name. >> chang. >> here. >> forbes. >> here. >> john baptiste. >> here. >> lipkin. >> present. >> shaw. >> here. >> tumlin. >> present. >> vice chair gee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. i will call your next item. >> item 3. communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment. to provide public comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code (182)585-8053. pound pound and listen as you wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have three minutes for each item. i will announce when public comment is open. general public comment callers dial star 3 to be added to the queue. this access code will stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. when callers dial star 3 they will be added in the order entered. all callers remain on mute until the line is ope

. >> thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha john baptiste and diane shaw thensit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. please respond when i call your name. >> chang. >> here. >> forbes. >> here. >> john baptiste. >> here. >> lipkin. >> present. >> shaw. >> here. >> tumlin. >> present. >> vice chair gee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. i will call your next item. >> item 3. communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment. to provide public comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code (182)585-8053. pound pound and listen as you wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have three minutes for each item. i will announce when public comment is open. general public comment callers dial star 3 to be added to the queue. this access code will stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. when callers dial star 3 they will be added in the order entered. all callers remain on mute until the line is open. the

. >> thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha john baptiste and diane shaw theansit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. please respond when i call your name. >> chang. >> here. >> forbes. >> here. >> john baptiste. >> here. >> lipkin. >> present. >> shaw. >> here. >> tumlin. >> present. >> vice chair gee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. i will call your next item. >> item 3. communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment. to provide public comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code (182)585-8053. pound pound and listen as you wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have three minutes for each item. i will announce when public comment is open. general public comment callers dial star 3 to be added to the queue. this access code will stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. when callers dial star 3 they will be added in the order entered. all callers remain on mute until the line is open. the

. >> thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha john baptiste and diane shaw thetransit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. please respond when i call your name. >> chang. >> here. >> forbes. >> here. >> john baptiste. >> here. >> lipkin. >> present. >> shaw. >> here. >> tumlin. >> present. >> vice chair gee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. i will call your next item. >> item 3. communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment. to provide public comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code (182)585-8053. pound pound and listen as you wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have three minutes for each item. i will announce when public comment is open. general public comment callers dial star 3 to be added to the queue. this access code will stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. when callers dial star 3 they will be added in the order entered. all callers remain on mute until the line is open. t

. >> thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha john baptiste and diane shaw the ac transit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. please respond when i call your name. >> chang. >> here. >> forbes. >> here. >> john baptiste. >> here. >> lipkin. >> present. >> shaw. >> here. >> tumlin. >> present. >> vice chair gee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. i will call your next item. >> item 3. communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment. to provide public comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code (182)585-8053. pound pound and listen as you wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have three minutes for each item. i will announce when public comment is open. general public comment callers dial star 3 to be added to the queue. this access code will stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. when callers dial star 3 they will be added in the order entered. all callers remain on mute until the line is ope

john baptiste, and pierre le moyne. and we like to say that mobile is the birthplace of mardi gras. and they found it in 1702. and pierre le moyne founded it in new law new orleans in 1718. so that was later. so they brought that celebration here, and then they took it to new orleans. so that is our steak to the birthplace of mardi gras. and it's a fun time, it's in the air, you'll see everybody is excited and having fun. tonight is the first prayed of the year. it is really the first parade of the year. wallace was a slave in mississippi, and he tried to run away and he would get caught, and they would bring him back, and they would beat him on mercifully. in fact during that time, you can get jobs beating slaves by the number of lashes or by the hour. so unbelievably, his owner became sympathetic, and brought him to mobile, and auctioned off right there at the slave market on the street. the guy that approached him before this building was here. he purchased wallace, and what he wanted him to do was walk his horses. and wallace was walking one of his horses one day, and something

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agreed on separation of church and state and they had sort of a fascinating relationship with the baptist's. john leland, one of the major baptist figures in the period who was both kind of southern and new england, he kind of moved around in preached, loved thomas jefferson. here she talked about -- he was a very for the bible leaving baptist. but he loved jefferson, he thought jefferson was a gift of god and he knew about jefferson to an extent about jefferson's theology that he disagreed with but he thought jefferson was just such a gift to the nation because jefferson's politics and he spoke about how he was a biblical figure something, so he had religious meaning and value for even the baptize who disagreed with him. and he valued the baptist take on politics as they agreed so well with what he thought of as i, think you are describing it as a beautiful religion as basically morality and freedom for individuals. if you look at -- >> if you look at his account books, he was very generous in giving money to the ministers, he maintained friendships with many ministers, including ministers that

john the baptist parish. the parish that we're in here at the whitney plantation. it's centered by a sculpture by rod morehead from mississippi. in is called "coming home." so we have along the walls here, the names, date of death, ages, and names of the mother of all of these children who died. these are recorded in the church records. so our historian did the research and pupping those records out of the church and recording them here. so here's a large collection of people that are not listed with any name whatsoever. these are all people that are just listed as little slave, negro slave girl, negro slave boy. some of these people who have no names were, perhaps, too young. they died too young to be named. sometimes we see this notation when people were 2 years old or 3 years old. people who definitely had payments that, but even at death were just, you know, when they were barn they were born into a lower class, of course, as enslaved people. it was not seen as important enough to record the names that they had or to look into it to find out what their name was

and we put this memorial here for 2200 children, who died enslaved, in saint john the baptist perished. that's the parish where in here in the whitney ban plantation. there is a sculpture here, and this is called coming home. so we have along the walls here, the names date of death, ages, and names of the mother of all of these children who died. and these were recorded in the church records. so our historian, did the research in pulling those records out of the church. and reporting them here. here's a large collection, of people that are not listed with any name whatsoever. these are people that are listed as little slave, negro slave girl, negro slave boy. some of these people, who have known names, were perhaps two young. they died too young to be named. but sometimes, we see this notation, when people were two years old, or three years old. people who had names, but even death were just you know when they were born they were born into a low class of enslaved people, and were not seen as important enough, to record their names, or to look into it to find out what their name wasn't

john-baptiste and corrects typos at page one line 27, line 22, line 25 on page two at line four inserts the words cho is willing to serve or who is corrects typo on line 5. these are removal of comments and inserts the otherwise requires and adds the further move with regards to the residency waiver in receipt of those non-substantive amendments and would like to move those amendments. >> supervisor: thank you. do we have a second? >> second. >> supervisor: the motion made to amend item 28 by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor preston. can we get a roll call vote, please, madame clerk. >> clerk: [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: thank you, madame clerk. can we have a vote on item 28 as amended. >> clerk: [roll call] . >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: and without objection the motion is approved unanimously. madame clerk, please call item 29. >> clerk: [reading item] >> supervisor: madame clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: [roll call] . >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: and without objection this motion is approved unanimously. madame

john-baptiste and corrects typos at page one line 27 line 22 line 25 on page two at line four inserts the words cho is willing to serve or who is corrects typo on line 5. these are removal of comments and inserts the otherwise requires and adds the further move with regards to the residency waiver in receipt of those non-substantive amendments and would like to move those amendments. >> supervisor: thank you. do we have a second? >> second. >> supervisor: the motion made to amend item 28 by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor preston. can we get a roll call vote please madame clerk. >> clerk: [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: thank you, madame clerk. can we have a vote on item 28 as amended. >> clerk: [roll call] . >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: and without objection the motion is approved unanimously. madame clerk, please call item 29. >> clerk: [reading item] >> supervisor: madame clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: [roll call] . >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: and without objection this motion is approved unanimously. madame cl

that commitment to freedom and equality drew abolitionist frederick douglas and john brown to detroit and second baptiste community in 1863. >> reporter: we are standing on sacred ground. >> absolutely. >> reporter: it's very powerful. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: the decades passed, and by the 1920s, the auto industry became the magnet southern blacks rushed north henry ford was hiring. the promised pay, $5 a day second baptist was there to help >> when they went to ford motor company, they had to have a letter when they came, they came here to second baptist. reverend bradley would write the letter, and henry ford would give them the job. >> reporter: then there is this. ford and second baptist had quite the relationship >> he had some challenges. one time, he asked the church to loan him some money. second baptist loaned them some money, so he could get his plant going. when it was time to pay it back, we told him we didn't want the money. what do you think we wanted? >> reporter: jobs. >> we wanted jobs for our people, exactly. that's how we were repaid for the loan >> reporter: be it economic liberation

>> i chose the founder of our city, john desalvo baptiste.he city of chicago was actually founded by a black man. no better time to do it than the first day of black history month. >> there you go. chicago mayor lori lightfoot. i wish you the best of luck getting through all this. thank you so much for coming on the show this morning. >>> up next, new pressure on the biden administration to sanction russia over the arrest of aleksi navalny. we'll talk to the executive director of the anticorruption campaign navalny founded. keep it right here on "morning joe." n "morning joe. want to make a name for yourself in gaming? then make a name for yourself. even if your office, and bank balance are... far from glamorous. that means expensing nothing but pizza. your expenses look good, and your books are set for the month! ...going up against this guy... and pitching your idea 100 times. no, no, no! no. i like it. -he likes it! ...and you definitely love that. intuit quickbooks helps small businesses be more successful with payments, payroll, banking

berkshires, massachusetts, preacher, by the name of the elder john leland as he was called was a very well-known proponent of religious freedom. he's a baptist in a congregational society and had suffered prejudice as a result of that. and he and his colleagues up there in the berkshires created this mammoth 1,200 pound cheese produced by as reverend leland described it, 900 cows, not one of them a federalist. the cheese was the size of a large millstone and was brought down on a six-horse wagon from massachusetts, and all along the way, leland would stop in these towns and cities and give speeches about religious freedom. the cheese was kind of the drawing card for that. people came to see the cheese and wound up hearing reverend leland as well as seeing the cheese. and when leland got it to the white house, jefferson had it set up in the east room and opened the doors for the guests to come in and sample the cheese and used it as kind of a -- kind of a metaphor for the common man and the produce of farms and working people who were the backbone of the country and produced goods like the mammoth cheese. it was quite an entertaining event, a

we are, 2021, the john lewis last public appearance was at the "black lives matter" plaza in washington, dc, unimaginable of course in 1960, and the minister from the ebenezer baptistrch headed for the u.s. senate. so at the same time we have a confederate flag paraded through the u.s. capitol for the first time ever from a breach from -- breech from a violent white -- you havesen progress, blacksliding, you watched in real-time. how do you keep up your will for the fight? >> i just sent an article to the atlanta inquirier, which charles black was. >> ed doctor. >> and a part of the founding team for it, and the title of the article is "the great, the horrible, and the wonderful." and often when great things take place, alongside that greatness is the horrible, and ultimately, something wonderful comes to pass. the greatness of this moment in which we now live is to see a warnock from ebb kneeser and also from the community -- ebenezer and also from the community, an african-american and a jewish-american. an african-american with the history of the atlantic slave trade, a jewish american with the history of the holocaust, and yet they are both representing us in t

john lewis' last public appearance was at the black lives matter plaza in washington d.c., which would have been unimaginable in 1960 and a minister from the ebenezer baptist church to the u.s. senate. and the confederate flag in the capitol for the first time after a breach from the white extremists. you've seen progress and you've seen back sliding and you watched it real-time. how do you keep up your will for the fight? >> i just sent an article to the atlanta inquirer, which charles black was-- >> editor. >> an editor and part of the founding-- the title of the article is the great, the horrible, and the wonderful. and often when great things take place alongside that greatness is the horrible and ultimately something wonderful comes to pass. the greatness of this moment in which we now live, is to see r a warnock from ebenezer, and also from the community, an african-american and a jewish american. an african-american with the history of the atlantic slave trade. a jewish-american with the history of the holocaust, and yet they are both representing us in the united states senate. that's great. by any standard of measurement it is great, but in the mi