supervisor peskin's legislation to remove justin herman's name from the plaza. students from the university of san francisco rename to the campus building. not only has our country's consciousness been raised to acknowledge the importance of contributions from historically marginalized communities. people of colour, particularly women of colour, and the disabled communities. we know our history in order not to repeat mistakes in our past. that is why today, we are hearing my resolution to rename it to freda kahlo way and remove the name post as a racist legacy. he served as a san francisco mayor from 1897-2,002 and was the senator from 2015 -- 1915-1921. he supported the chinese exclusion act of 1882 and to the immigration act of 1924. banning chinese and japanese immigrants. he ran his senatorial campaign on the motto to keep california weight and save our state oriental aggression. i want to read from you the interview frida kahlo -- when he talks about the silent invasion of japanese workers into california. quote, at the california is a white man's country.

martin luther king made his "i have a dream" speech, and that was the same time frame when justin herman plaza got rid of the fillmore district, which was 60 squarelocks and 5 to 10% was japanese and chinese people. so we need to have a hearing on the fillmore. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> good morn i'm jane chin. i'm the interim director of the chinese historical society, and thank you for this opportunity to address count was lady liberty stands in new york harbor, give me your poor, your hudled masses, to be free, this was not for the chinese. the exclusion law severely impacted the lives of the chinese peopl and the tens of thousands of men who were already here. first because the law required chinese to have proper documentation in order to reenter the united states if they were to leave to visit their family inhina prohibited them from leaving. and second, without being able to visit their wievs aves and children they left behind in china, their family unit was destroyed. imagine men could not return to their wives and children they left behind. imagine women in china never to

discriminatory practice and tricking devices were applied to black people by justin herman. he did the ethnic cleansing of my nationality of the people of the film our area and as a result, 15% population a black people that existed in the fillmore area is down to two and a half-3.5% now. people outside of complaining about the difference of treatment that they are receiving, and even when we protest, we still have a low amount of people that are stressing how they are being on the receiving end of discriminatory practices and tricking devices because of their skin colour. you have other nationalities or even joining in. very much so in the same manner that i come and speak up for other nationalities who are being violated. you watch me speak up for rape victims, you've watched me speak up for it's hispanics in the mission district and i spoke up for people who are at doing in-home care who haven't even been paid for services. now it is time for me to speak up more for my own nationality. i am moving to have a hearing pertaining to the ethnic cleansing in the fillmore area a