Remarks by Omari Shakur
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“I'm just trying to find out if the procedures make it so when these young men come to me, I can tell them exactly what they have to do.”
“Yes. Paving is going to be forever. 1991, when Audrey Carey came in, Liberty Street, they did Liberty Street, I think it was that year, but they had to hire a lot of people from the community, and they had to pick up them bricks. by hand, they can remove those bricks. And I think they could pay the middle, but they had to leave the sidewalk. They had to leave so much because of the historical stuff. So that was 1991 2015 when we ran for mayor. How many debates did we have about pavement? I told you I would make you the pavement cause are if I want because you were so adamant about the…”
“forever and forever, but my question was we just found out that they don't have to have a license for sanitation right. Yes, so they don't have to have with that they don't have to have a nice but they but I have 4, 3, 4 men. I have 3 or 4 men were denied jobs because they didn't have with so we need to make sure HR is on top of that.”
“Yes, I brought up the guaranteed basic income program. And if that is a legislative project, I would like to add that on to my priorities.”
“And also traffic enforcement. Did we had that down.”
“They did a forensic audit law work for us OK that was what 6 years. Yeah, I remember you open a different in the court and it was shown that was. And so this is the same black and Hispanic city hall was 70% white. It was 68% non-residents. Right. And so I was like going forward, not going after people's jobs, but making sure city residents.”
“Right, because they had preferences because, like I said, them numbers should represent our city. That's all.”
“Being a generation that was affected and impacted by that, my great-grandmother and great-grandfather owned a home. That was four generations ago. And since then, it's three more generations after me. So it's been seven generations. And we're talking about, of course, what this is about is supposed to be reparations for the people who were impacted. Basically, that was the whole gist of what was holding this up and what's been going on. And like I said, it's been seven generations in my family now, and we're still having, and that man is just sitting there We need to make this happen. And so,…”
“And that's a bacon knot. It's like a hole in the heart of our city. Yeah. We need to fix it.”
“So you have seven votes or one vote on. It would be seven votes is a high priority.”