. >> my nam i name is larry saxon, and i'm the chief operating officer for the african advocacy foundation. i'm the first generation -- the second generation in my family that came out of the fields as share croppers. we started as slaves, and we became share croppers thereafter. i get it. i've been there. i appreciate it when i pick every peach, when i eat every bean. i know what went into that labor. my mother said, always remember the red clay in the folds of your knees no matter how high you get. to me, it is important that the african-american community be afforded to reach out to the african community in particular, because the department has the assumption that you simply plop black people among black people and they will get along. and that's simply not the case. i live in district five, which is the highest population of african and ethiopian population. but there is no ability to have an ethnic relationship between the two of us, and it is problematic. and i work with a lot of north africans, who have blonde hair and blue eyes, who identify strictly as african first. and i'm seei