Unconstitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court discussions. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, the court made a unpopular decision. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live and a society with different people who stick together because they believe in the rule of law good evening and welcome to landmark cases tonight were going to look at 1886 case in which the Supreme Court ruled the equal protection guarantees apply not just to citizens but noncitizen s in the next 90 minutes will learn about what led to the case and the effect of its decision on American Society our two guests will help us understand all of this a professor of american. ,. , she will help us to understand the issues around chinese immigration and the chinese exclusion act in the. The president and founder of the organization that creates historical material for has. Give us the most basic facts about this case. So the decision came 18 years
Well, it said the law said that all new laundries had to be constructed out of brick or stone, but existing laundries, which were made out of wood, which they all were, practically all were, could only continue to operate if they got a permit from the city. And this is what led to this charade, really, where they approved all the permit applications that white people made, say for one, and they denied all the chinese. So in a way this is not really about fire safety. It was one of quite a number of municipal ordinances that were passed to harass the chinese. If we make life so miserable for them, if we make it impossible for them to earn a living, maybe they will leave. So enter lee wiyick, who is e of the proprietors, he had been running it for 20 years. His name was not yick wo, his name was lee yick. That was the name of the laundromat. When the original case was filed, no one bothered to fix it that they didnt get the guys name right, which showed you how much they cared about Peop
Parking, all of those things. And so i welcome this. And i hope we do it. Thank you. Commissioner richards. So just to be clear its nothing that you just said that i would say i violently disagree with. I did meet with supervisor moore a couple weeks ago and he asked to meet with me because when i first met him i said you should take the reigns and show sacramento that we are doing something. But i said to him two weeks ago we need to be careful that if you do things that there is some type of protection that we dont do something and then all of a sudden something rolls over us and everything that we did actually was more not because now theres some new mandate out of sacramento. We spent weeks years, on the market octavia plan. We designed it, 45 feet in the middle of the block, 55 feet at the end of the block. Got 85 feet in the middle of the block now. These are the kinds of things im talking about. We got to be careful. Thats all im saying. Thank you. Let me just add one more thing
The new we are seeing is just black buildings completely flat on the street level. And they have a rooftop where you can have a deck or this is their new recreation area. New folks that come into the neighborhood no longer get to experience the community as a whole. So these guidelines our beautiful, Historic Buildings from turning into a moratorium of black. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am a life resident of the mission. Lived all my life off the corridor of 24th street. And weve seen many changes coming into calle 24. And i would like to ask that you support this new design that we are trying to put in place for the regulations. So thats all i have to say. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much. Any other Public Comment on this item . Okay. Public comment is now closed. So i totally support these guidelines. I know folks have been working for many, many years to get there. Thank you to calle 24 and eric specifically and the planning staff for g
And then all of a sudden something rolls over us and everything that we did actually was more not because now theres some new mandate out of sacramento. We spent weeks years, on the market octavia plan. We designed it, 45 feet in the middle of the block, 55 feet at the end of the block. Got 85 feet in the middle of the block now. These are the kinds of things im talking about. We got to be careful. Thats all im saying. Thank you. Let me just add one more thing. And that is what was beautiful about the victory we just had at the polls of proposition e with proposition a is that we were able to convince the voters that there was this relationship between density and funding. And i think that thats key to the conversation we had about racial equity, because it wasnt just zoning that created our inequalities and Racial Disparities in america. It was the combination of zoning and money and availability of capital. So the way i see it, what has happened in the mission and soma and increasing