and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. and there's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. ere's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans found

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. and there's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. and there's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans

today i am honored, my name is tanya williams and i'm honored and a proud member of the san francisco mega-black organization. it's a community organizing collaborative fighting for visibility, support and sovereignty of black san franciscans. today i am mainly honored to produce or to submit a video from other members of the group, so that we can ask that you can consider the needs of black san franciscans in our budget. that's our ask today. greetings. i thank you. i'm a bit nervous, but, please, cue the video. >> thank you, have an awesome day. >> clerk: sorry, one more second. [bell ringing] >> caller: greetings. my name is felisha jones and we're here, not asking and begging, but demanding, demanding $60 million baseline for the dreamkeepers initiative to be held in with, um, human rights commission. we are demanding the capacity building of our black c.b.o.s here in san francisco. we are demanding that the city controller conducts an audit over 15 years. the last 15 years, i should say, of the amount of moneys that have been given to black san franciscans versus all other ethnic

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. ing to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans found we are worse off today than we were back

today i am honored, my name is tanya williams and i'm honored and a proud member of the san francisco mega-black organization. it's a community organizing collaborative fighting for visibility, support and sovereignty of black san franciscans. today i am mainly honored to produce or to submit a video from other members of the group, so that we can ask that you can consider the needs of black san franciscans in our budget. that's our ask today. greetings. i thank you. i'm a bit nervous, but, please, cue the video. >> thank you, have an awesome day. >> clerk: sorry, one more second. [bell ringing] >> caller: greetings. my name is felisha jones and we're here, not asking and begging, but demanding, demanding $60 million baseline for the dreamkeepers initiative to be held in with, um, human rights commission. we are demanding the capacity building of our black c.b.o.s here in san francisco. we are demanding that the city controller conducts an audit over 15 years. the last 15 years, i should say, of the amount of moneys that have been given to black san franciscans versus all other ethnic

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. and there's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz.and there's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz.d there's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans f

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz.budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans found we are worse off today than we were back then. so here go our demands. number one -- we demand that $60 million to

and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. the dreamkeepers initiative for black san franciscans. number two, we demand $40 million to address black disparities in closing educational gaps, mass incarceration gaps, gaps in job training programs, and to reestablish the black workforce and to pay the fines and the fees that are associated with those disparities. number three, we demand culpability, meaning that we want them to be held accountable, all right, for all 54 city and county departments to be held accountable again, so that everybody can hear me, for the disparities that i have deliberately caused to black san franciscans due to a lack of dollars, care, which they have, right, we think -- well, we know they've got the dollars and we don't know about the care, we're still working on that, okay, to this day has failed to address in our community. number four. we demand that the controller's office conduct a 15-year audit of previous moneys given to the black community and compare these dollars to all other ethnicities who