In looking at this effort. I have the honor today to introduce mayor ed lee who has made equality the cornerstone of his career. As a civil rights lawyer, he sued the Housing Authority to improve the standards of living for Public Housing tenants. And he also sued the Fire Department so women and people of color could get equal opportunity. As the director of this citys human rights commission, he expanded contracting opportunities for women and people of color. And today as mayor, he makes sure our City Government reflects the diversity of this great city. On monday we were together, as i mentioned earlier, i College Track on 3rd street in bayview where the mayor give his state of the city address. His administrations focus is on creating jobs, making sure that all of our residents have access to those jobs,st and from local hireness and job readiness, training and placement, we are moving towards equality for all with the mayors leadership. Ladies and gentlemen, id like to introduce
That there are protections in place to make sure all the hard work done by the so many lives sacrificed are also preserved. Youre also going to hear from the president of the United States, who will be here in selma, 2 30 roughly, eastern time here from selma, right here at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge. He will be bringing with him the first Lady Michele Obama and the president is bringing his daughters, sasha and malia. And we expect that one of his messages will be to really challenge the generations of his daughters and other generations, that they will have their own marches and their own fights to fight and his message will be that the struggle the fight continues. Also during our programming today, youre, of course, going to hear from the man who was just 25 years old who is the most recognizable image of bloody sunday john lewis, congressman john lewis, is here. My conversations with another civil rights foot soldier, reverend andrew young. Youre going to hear the extrao
Important departments. And ive got to say this. If we cant get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i dont know where else to look because this is a great start. Yes. applause but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. Melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. And they are joining with me and with the supervisors and with the Department Heads to do what mrs. Obama asked us to do. Whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or throughout the nation, we do the right thing, we keep the doors of opportunity open and enriched for e
Supervisor breed, dr. Amos brown, dr. Honeycut, and all of you to look at our Public Housing and where do we see it going from here, and look into rethinking Public Housing so that it will be accessible for all people of all ethnicities of all races so that we all have dignity in where we live and what our future looks like. And, so, i look forward to working with all of you along with supervisor breed and cohen in looking at this effort. I have the honor today to introduce mayor ed lee who has made equality the cornerstone of his career. As a civil rights lawyer, he sued the Housing Authority to improve the standards of living for Public Housing tenants. And he also sued the Fire Department so women and people of color could get equal opportunity. As the director of this citys human rights commission, he expanded contracting opportunities for women and people of color. And today as mayor, he makes sure our City Government reflects the diversity of this great city. On monday we were to
Whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or throughout the nation, we do the right thing, we keep the doors of opportunity open and enriched for everybody else. And were already seeing it happen. Yesterday i was at the luncheon for the boys and girls club, wonderful, wonderful entity thats reaching out to all of our Young High School kids and make sure theyre motivated to go to college. You should have heard them talk about their futures. You should also hear them ask for our help, because i know as much as anybody else that our kids will inherit the good things that we do. They will also inherit the things that we fail to do. And im about making sure that we fail less in the things that were obligated to do for our generations. Thats why im investing in education. Personally, and with all of my administration, i personally adopted the 12 middle schools in this city to make sure that the truancy goes down, is not eliminated, that the kids wh