kao kalia writes, our parents told us not to look at the americans. for the first year and a half we wanted to invisible, everywhere we went beyond the housing project, we were looked at, felt exposed. we were dealing world trade center wide realization that we must do one of two things to survive in america -- grow up or grow old. okay. so she felt profound pressure to grow up really fast, translating for her parents, helping them navigate the bureaucracy that allowed their family to eat. later she writes -- money was like a person i had never known or a wall i had never breached before. it kept me away from my grandma. i saw no way to climb this wall. sometimes i thought so much about money that i couldn't sleep. money was not bills and coins or a check from welfare. in my imagination, it was much more. it was the nightmare that kept love apart in america. so here you have another aspect of frustration. her family's not just financially struggling, but that financial struggle meant that they could not be with loved ones. this is a powerful aspect, t

kalia from sfmta will be here to present. >> yes, hi, everyone. i'm sorry, i think i'm showing up as someone else because i had technical difficulties. and i.t. got me in the back door, so i'm showing up as s.h., but i'm kalia wang from the sfmta. hopefully, you can see me. i don't know if we have the presentation up? let's see. lang. i'm on livable streets in sfmta. so, hi, everyone. thanks for listening to this presence today. -- presentation today. i wanted to cover today, first of all, i'm the manager of the safe streets evaluation program which tracks performance as our bicycle, pedestrian and traffic-calming project. so commissioner peskin, a lot of what you were referring to earlier, we're going to cover today. and we had a year and report that covered some of this stuff you brought up and we continue do this every year. this is a continual process and this is findings that we are summarizing for 2019. so today i'm going to go over some of the top -- for 2019. and i'm specifically going to talk about our project that prioritized pedestrians

kalia, you got to vote. >> you think we can vote at 18? >> you're 18. you're gonna vote.can get you started on that right now. >> are you registered, becky? >> i get phone calls now all the time from friends who are asking, how do they activate white lives to, uh, change or be effective in awareness of what's happening. i think that this grew different because of, you know, just being on lockdown, being told what to do. i, i think y'all probably experienced that black life, you know, that we do every day. that the knee on the neck is also the pandemic locking down the whole america. you know, we, we can't breathe, we're, we're done. you know what i'm saying? that, that helplessness. you're a registered voter. high-five. the power of one, you're now the-- part of the team. you are going to be a, uh, law changer, and you're-- you get to vote for the president of the united states. you can keep that favorite person in there now or you can vote for somebody else. >> if this is still going on, i'm not having no kids. >> the younger generation are part of the bigger heart. i be

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