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A
Hello
and
welcome
to
Pittsburgh
City
Council's
standing
committees,
meeting
for
Wednesday
January
15th
2020.
My
name
is
Kim
Clark,
Baskin
and
I'm
the
assistant
city
clerk
with
us.
Today
we
have
our
sign
language
interpreter
Erica
Harriman.
There
is
no
legislation
up
for
preliminary
approval
by
Pittsburgh
City
Council.
Thank
you
and
have
a
great
day.
B
Good
morning
and
welcome
to
today's
standing
council
meeting
on
Wednesday
January
15th
c20,
our
first
order
of
business
is
public
comment.
If
the
first
speaker
would
please
come
to
the
podium,
please
announce
your
name
and
neighbourhood.
For
the
record.
The
green
light
will
indicate
you
have
three
minutes:
the
yellow
two
minutes
in
the
red
light.
You
will
be
finished.
C
Good
morning,
my
name
is
les
Ludwig
and
I'm
from
squirrel
health,
where
I'm,
really
from
is
from
50
years
from
now
50
years
down
the
road
that
we
don't
know
exactly.
What's
going
to
happen,
and
yesterday
I
suggested
that
we
need
someone
in
the
city
who's
designated
to
take
us
by
the
hand
and
look
at
the
city's
magazine
from
National
Geographic,
because
there's
already
research
being
done.
C
C
C
C
Can
the
two
party
system
deliver
free
everything,
all
the
things
that
are
wanted
by
our
society
and
instead
what's
happening?
We've
spent
50
years
since
I
suggested
3
cents
for
every
check.
That's
a
tax
charge
for
education.
It's
disgusting
wake
up,
America
you're
there,
but
you
don't
even
know
it.
Thank.
B
C
B
B
D
B
D
B
C
B
E
E
Everyone
knows
racism
is
a
public
health
crisis
in
Pittsburgh.
One
of
the
things
that
we
probably
don't
talk
about
as
much
as
we
should
is.
The
reason
that
we
are
here
in
this
configuration
of
council
is
in
part
because
of
Pittsburgh's
racist
past.
Up
until
by
district
elections,
council
was
selected
by
large
and
the
party
bosses
selected
sometimes
an
african-american
to
represent
them.
My
friend
Reverend
Thomas,
Smith
pastored,
the
monumental
Baptist
Church
started
the
the
Pittsburgh,
the
metropolitan
Pittsburgh
crusade
for
voters
that
sued
the
city
and
forced
a
referendum
that
had
by
district
elections.
E
If
it
wasn't
for
that
activity,
most
of
us,
probably
mr.
Louisville
and
I,
would
not
be
here,
and
so
I
was
elected
and
specifically
because
I
am
to
represent
or
have
the
opportunity
to
represent
african-americans
in
my
district
african-americans
in
the
city
and
so
I
teach
at
the
college
in
three
disciplines:
I'm
a
professor
of
communications
as
teach
in
the
school
journalism,
but
I
also
teach
in
the
fields
of
ethnic
studies.
E
Although
I
don't
talk
about
it
actually
teach
in
the
field,
and
since
racism
is
a
public
health
crisis,
we
need
to
as
a
city
move
to
racial
equity,
and
so
we've
been
doing
some
things
like
that.
The
mayor
has
bright
and
gear
to
do
training.
We
have
a
policy
equity
toolkit
as
council.
We
have
approved
and
are
going
to
do
a
policy.
E
The
policy
council
meets
quarterly
and
we're
going
to
bring
recommendations.
But
if
you
read
the
literature,
it
also
talks
about
having
a
very
open
and
transparent
conversation
about
race
race
in
our
city,
race,
in
our
country,
race,
even
here
on
the
fifth
floor
and
so
for
the
next
year,
or
so
maybe
longer
I've
decided,
since
it
is
a
crisis,
we're
going
to
start
having
a
conversation
about
race
in
Pittsburgh,
and
so
the
first
thing
is
to
do.
E
I
think
is
to
define
terms
and
so
I
will
also
start
bringing
in
books
for
those
who
are
interested.
I
saw
the
movie
little
just
mercy
the
other
night
and
brought
it
in
the
new
Jim
Crow.
Both
these
books
talk
about
how
african-americans
are
disproportionately
in
the
court
system
and
how
the
court
system
is
used
as
a
way
of
disenfranchising,
african-americans
and
so
I'll
bring
in
books
or
buy
books
and
provide
books
for
those
who
are
interested,
but
I
do
want
to
begin
today
and
I'll
be
doing
this
every
week
is
again
talking
about
definition.
E
So
when
I
start
to
talk
about
things,
we'll
all
have
the
same
definitions
of
what
I'm
talking
about.
First
of
all,
I
think,
there's
a
couple
things
that
we
need
to
be
clear
about.
When
we
talk.
First
is
equity
versus
equality.
Most
often
equality
is
used
to
refer
to
inputs.
People
receive
the
same
resources
with
the
expectation
that
outcomes
will
be
the
same.
However,
people
are
situated
differently,
we're
receiving
the
same
resource.
Equal
input
will
only
reinforce
existing
inequalities.
On
the
other
hand,
we
urge
the
use
of
equity
to
refers
to
outcomes.
E
All
people
can
achieve
a
value
goal
or
circumstance
that
typically
required
differential
resources,
because
groups
are
not
situated.
Similarly,
at
the
outset,
racial
equity
is
measurable,
as
seen
when
disparities
are
declining
or
gaps
across
racial
groups
or
a
given
indicator
of
well-being.
Equity
means
that
when
you
evaluate
racial
groups,
they
are
achieving
specific
outcomes.
Now
we
use
interchangeably
these
terms
of
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
but
they
are
not.
The
same
diversity
refers
to
the
presence
of
different
groups
or
different
perspectives.
Different
people
and
perspectives
are
shown
to
produce
better
organizational
results.
E
Inclusion
is
the
feature
of
a
setting
when
a
voice
is
valued
from
the
diverse
people
they
represent
and
they
have
organizational
power.
Inclusion
is
the
core
function
of
respectful
organizational
culture,
its
manifested
in
setting
itself
the
dynamics
of
that
setting
a
diverse
setting
without
inclusion
is
not
likely
to
remain
diverse.
Equity
is
already
noted,
is
the
outcome
where
all
people
can
achieve
a
value.
Core
circumstances
is
grounded
in
policies
and
practices,
they're
informed
by
and
exclusive
of
diverse
people,
an
equitable
setting
by
definition,
will
be
inclusive
and
more
likely
to
be
and
remain
it
will.
E
It
remain
diverse.
A
growing
number
of
organizations
pay
attention
diversity,
but
far
fewer
pay
attention
to
inclusion
and
equity,
and
so,
during
my
time,
I
will
be
focusing
on
inclusion
and
equity
now.
Finally,
let's
talk
about
racism
specifically
when
racism
mentioned
people
always
run
to
interpersonal
racism
and
personal
biases,
where
whites
mostly
make
judgments
and
statesman's
based
on
harmful
presumptions
about
people
of
color.
Of
course,
these
can
be
based
in
both
implicit
and
explicit
bias.
We
all
have
implicit
biases.
E
We
learn
that
from
our
work
with
police
internal
racism
refers
to
acceptance
by
even
people
of
color
about
the
negative
beliefs
and
the
image
for
trade
against
them.
Dr.
Tiller's
work
talks
about
these
biases
that
somehow
blacks
are
intellectually
inferior
or
athletically
superior.
Both
white
and
white
people
believe
these
stereotypes,
which
are
not
true.
However,
the
most
powerful
and
far-reaching
racism
in
our
country
is
institutional
and
structural.
E
These
terms
refers
to
the
ways
in
which
policies
and
practices
of
us
organizations
and
systems
work
systematically
to
advance
whites
and
how
they
are
forced
by
the
media
and
national
norms
such
as
individuals
and
a
boostrap
ideology.
Anyone
can
achieve
wherever
they
want
if
they
just
work
hard
enough
white
privilege
is
a
term
that
represents
all
the
advantage
that
White's
received
from
institutional
and
structural
racism,
often
unknowingly
such
as
not
having
to
think
about
race
in
every
setting,
orange
interaction
and
feeling
being
safe
in
public
places
and
so
we're
going
to
in
my
time.
E
They
are
perpetrating
the
racist
institution.
Their
acts
are
then,
can
be
defined
as
racist
and
so
I
believe.
It
is
my
role
and
my
responsibility
to
begin
to
point
out
races,
actions
whenever
I
see
them
hate
groups
whenever
I
see
them
cowardly
behavior,
whenever
I
see
them
point
them
out
in
a
clear
public,
transparent
way,
I
believe
as
a
speech,
teacher
I
believe
in
this
table.
I
believe
in
the
clear
expression
of
ideas.
E
I,
fundamentally,
believe,
that's
why
I'm
here
in
Council
I
believe
if
we
talk
about
it
publicly
openly,
consciously
that
the
truth
comes
out.
I
am
willing
to
put
my
ideas.
I
am
willing
to
talk
about
my
beliefs
in
a
public
setting
and
I'm,
not
ashamed
to
be
an
african-american
I'm,
not
ashamed
to
have
a
be
a
husband
of
a
wife
of
35
years.
I'm,
not
ashamed
of
raising
four
children,
I'm,
not
ashamed
to
be
an
african-american
preacher.
I
do
not
believe
that
people
should
take
drugs
and,
if
that's
a
bad
thing,
I'm
a
bad
person.
E
I
do
not
believe
in
in
blatant
sexuality
without
relationships
because
of
my
nieces
and
my
nephews
and
my
niece
is
rather
and
my
the
antigen
agency
I
ran
for
specifically
teenage
grooms
I
found
that
sexuality
without
commitment
has
devastating
consequences
and
for
them
the
one
way
black
young
girls
become
poor
in
this
country.
The
fastest
way
is
to
have
children
outside
of
marriage,
and
so
I
believe
in
committed
relationships.
I
do
not
believe
in
gambling.
I
do
not
believe
those
things
if
those
things
make
me
a
bad
person
in
other
people's
minds.
E
That's,
oh,
that's
fair,
but
those
are
the
things
I
believe
now.
I
am
NOT
a
perfect
man.
I
have
made
many
mistakes,
but
I
believe
our
city,
I
was
listening
to
rabbi
Myers
last
night.
I
would
listen
to
him
from
time
to
time
from
the
tree
of
life
sent
a
guy
I
believe
that
our
city
is
greater
than
hate,
I,
believe
our
city
stronger
than
hate
and
greater
than
racism,
but
we
cannot
be
stronger
than
either
one
of
those.
As
long
as
we
allow
hatred,
bigotry,
racism,
both
intentional
and
structural,
to
exist.
E
I
want
us
to
be
a
button.
Finally,
I
wants
to
be
a
great
I,
want
every
person
in
our
city
to
do
well.
I
want
every
neighborhood
to
do
well,
but
the
judgment
of
how
we
judge
our
city
will
be
on
how
the
least
among
us
how
they
are
treated
and
the
things
they
have.
Thank
you
for
this
moment.
We'll
begin
this
car
we'll
continue.
This
conversation
on
oily
Thank.
F
You
councilman
I
just
wanted
to
share
that
your
shared
language
document,
assuming
this
will
go
into
the
record,
isn't
cited,
and
it's
just
pro
forma
these
days
to
cite
the
website.
So
I
think
I'm
this
exact
document
on
viable
future
center
org
slash
race.
I
can't
read
the
whole
thing,
but
I
think
we
could
share
that
on.
Ledges
are
as
well,
and
so
this
is
part
of
its
it's
cited
at
the
top.
The
race
matters
Institute
of
just
partners
right,
so
that's
the
that's
the
website
and
so
I
want
to
thank
you
for
that.
F
We've
been
also
working
on
this
kind
of
shared
definition
initiative
within
the
kind
of
citizen
appointed
gender
equity
Commission,
and
it's
a
it's
incredibly
helpful
because
you
have
people
from
different
perspectives
coming
from
different
either
academic
backgrounds
or
non
academic
backgrounds,
or
just
even
their
daily
work,
where
these
definitions
could
be
used
differently.
So
I
just
wanted
to
make
sure
we
got
that
on
the
record
and
I
be
happy
to
share
this
as
well
on
my
own
social
media.
Thank
you.