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The colorblind principle . Yes. So theres been a lot of confusion about what the word colorblindness mean. Many people think that colorblindness means pretend you dont. But in my book, i try to get rid of that perception because we all see race. Everyone sees race and help it. Everyone watching this notices that i am of color and and so forth. So with the knowledge that we can all see race, were all capable of racial bias. What i mean by colorblindness book is that we try our best to treat people without regard to race, both in our lives. The less controversial piece and in our Public Policy. ...

The colorblind principle . Yes. So theres been a lot of confusion about what the word colorblindness mean. Many people think that colorblindness means pretend you dont. But in my book, i try to get rid of that perception because we all see race. Everyone sees race and help it. Everyone watching this notices that i am of color and and so forth. So with the knowledge that we can all see race, were all capable of racial bias. What i mean by colorblindness book is that we try our best to treat people without regard to race, both in our lives. The less controversial piece and in our Public Policy. ...

Recommendations with the down turn of the economy a lot of employees were being laid off and there was not much hiring being done and the work of the task force as you indicated had kind of dropped off. Thats not to say that none of the recommendations werent implemented. In fact many of them were implemented. Some of them include more accessibility and disabled user friendly resources like the dhr lobby, the dhr website job apps and system of people and employees can apply for jobs. We also provided reasonable accommodations training both for our exam analyst as well as to supervisors and Hum...

26,000 a year and nobody can live on that in San Francisco. We cant truly lead independent lives until we have economic independence and meaningful jobs. I want to thank you, supervisor mar for scheduling this hearing today and also for starting this conversation about employing people with disabilities. And like you, i also want to thank jonathan lions for the legwork that he put into this effort to bring this issue to all of our attention. It was also exactly 1 year ago that you held this hearing. In your june 2014 hearing was a catalyst to reignite the conversation with the department of Hu...

For the mayors with disabilities and 2 years ago we signed the americans with disabilities act and we had more than 500 people come and the theme was it doesnt stop here the reason is under the dream of the ada employment is really the portion that is unfulfilled. We really have not reached the numbers that i think the founders really expected when the ada was first signed and much of the public testimony back in 1988 and 1989 about the needs for this civil rights legislation focused on employment as an issue. People with disabilities is only 1 3 as likely to be employed from people without di...