. >> i am larry edmond and i was watching the board of supervisors and i see ace here talking but i live in the tl. i have been here 25 year and i tell you in the tl we as black people don't have identity. you see men, women and children all the time and they don't know that black lives matter. it's amazing to see people march for us. we had a conference sunday about black lives matter and what i found out at third and palow, the new opinion cents store there they have the history of bay view. i found a man ran in 63 and how ironic no one knows the history there but he was about housing and education and jobs and police brutality back in 63 and i -- i know fillmore. i go to the kwanza but i think all black men, brown, yellow and all in san francisco matter and makes me feel good about the stadium and we don't get to see black role models close up. san francisco should have been had a basketball. this is great. you can't be an international city without people of color. that's one thing. that's a fact there. what i am here to say so often we find in these communities these districts. i re

welcome, lucy >> hi, my name is larry edmond, you call me juice , i want to remember this man right here, martin luther. he said black and white should be on the constitutional keyboard and i go over to the waterfall all the time at 4th and mission. i have added bad bootylicious basic black, tell trouble white is on the constitution keyboard. today we know we live in a world that's big and small and with this being martin luther king weekend, by him coming here in 56 and speaking on that, i think that he said also no violence or non-exist stepbt. i've been up to mount davis to look over the city, i know san francisco, it's a beautiful city. i know we can make it through this year but if anything should ever happen to me, i am proud to be a black saying general love and gay men, i fight for a lot of things like this here people. so racism and the homo phobia and sectionism, this is my shirt that it didn't get burned, but last week you were talking about explosives and in our apartments and hotels in this city the mission hotel, on that sunday before christmas someone wepbltd in my room an

>> hello, my name is larry edmond. i will tell you why i like the common wealth club is because you get to alert about fighting, racism and sexism and homophobia. i bought ten tickets. i took five black men and five white men to see collins and his family there. also just recently cornell west spoke there at the common wealth. it was a sold outcast stroe theatre. i have seen many people there on common wealth on market street. i think this building needs to be built because you know why? not only do you find in work but you need to be educated. the common wealth, speaking is good. the common wealth if you notice in the hall ways here, washington and lincoln, they have common wealth up there. most people think it's in london or england. i think you should know the common wealth is something we all benefit and need. you know e what, i want to go architect but public speaking is where i should be. it reminds people of who we are and what we can do and what you have been through. our lives and stories do matter and that's