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A
B
A
A
Robin
is
the
former
altar
woman
for
the
fifth
floor
and
in
that
role
she
picked
up
the
mantle
from
some
work
that
was
done
previously
by
some
wonderful
evanstonians
and
the
foundation,
lady,
that
using
expertise
of
some
of
the
other
people
in
the
room
corrality
together
these
Community
Resources
to
get
passed
through
our
Council
that
historic
Evanston
reparations
ordinance.
So
we
can't
thank
her
enough
of
that.
A
B
A
A
B
A
B
A
A
We
also
have
eight
Avia
city
council,
woman,
or
we
were
Alder
people.
Actually,
my
auntie
and
Raymond
and.
A
A
That
has
begun
dispersing
direct
benefits
to
our
black
community.
In
2019
we
had
a
vision
and
a
commitment,
and
today
we
celebrate
the
historic
Milestone
of
having
this
this
first,
nearly
two
million
dollars
in
direct
benefits
and
will
keep
this
same
work
ethic,
we'll
keep
the
same
energy
as
the
Young
Folks
say
dispersing
much
more.
A
A
You
have
made
this
moment
possible,
you
endure
direct
harm
from
our
city
and
this
nation,
and
you
did
so
while
raising
a
community
and
celebrating
our
heritage
in
arts,
leadership,
business
and
the
Beautiful
practice
of
oral
history,
you
power
it
through
Jim
Crow
era,
Tara
and
segregation
with
authority,
Grace
style,
mother
Charlene.
In
the
back
with
a
royal
purple
on
ion
Faith
to
all
of
our
faith.
Leaders
here,
I've
become
about
a
half
dozen
churches
represented
Rhythm
and
peace.
A
A
A
Harris,
thank
you
committee
members,
so
we
also
have
on
our
committee
council
members
Bobby
Burns
of
the
Fifth
Ward
and
council
member
Divine
Reed
of
the
eighth
award.
We
thank
them
as
well
for
their
commitment
to
this
work.
A
B
C
A
A
We
grieve
for
those
black
ancestors
who,
despite
their
contributions
to
the
city's
wealth
and
freedom,
never
were
never
recognized,
barely
compensated.
You're
allowed
to
fully
realize
your
own
Sovereign
because
of
their
work.
We
are
here
today
and
we
will
invest
in
a
descendants
of
that
magazine
and
through
this
process
we
work
to
repair
some
and
hear
us
clear.
This
is
only
some
of
the
damage
that
was
done
by
public
and
private
sector.
Thank
you.
A
So
next
we
have
called
upon
he's
a
doctor.
I
think
that
to
treasure
it,
many
of
us
are
very
familiar
with
this
work.
We're
so
grateful
for
his
time
to.
A
Ceremony
before
he
begins
that
I
want
to
say
just
a
few
words
about
I
love.
Looking
at
his
website.
This
description
I
just
want
to
read
this
to
you
sure
world-class
Explorer,
Global
thought
leader,
talented
author,
veteran
speaker,
a
student
businessman,
experience
consultant
coach,
strategist,
Mentor,
facilitator,
professor,
and
these
are
my
two
favorite
loving
clubs
in
a
devoted
father.
B
A
Spoken
of
in
economic
term,
but
as
a
black
community
and
in
that
context
the
whole
thing
here
also
has
to
consider
the
opportunity
to
reconnect
with
our
history
and
passive
Traditions
that
were
stripped
from
us
and
for
many
of
us
we,
you
know
that's
far
away
and
Dr
Logan's
work
helps
to
reconnect
us.
It
helps
to
repassion
and
educate
and
celebrate
our
tradition.
So
with
that
I'm
going
to
ask
him
to
say
something
about
the
condition
of
the
libation
ceremony
to
open
us
up
at
2.14.
C
Good
afternoon,
everyone
thank
you
all
for
being
here.
I
asked
the
vision
for
my
health
and
speak
yeah,
facilitating
libations.
Thank
you
and
I.
Just
again,
I
want
to
thank
all
the
organizers,
all
the
committee
members
of
the
community
members
who
are
behind
everything.
That's
making
this
happen.
It's
just
short
I
just
want
to
live
over
love
which
you've
also
thank
you
so
much
and
yes
and
I
wanted
to
balance.
For
my
wife,
my
name,
so
that's
Mia
Logan.
It's
awesome
again.
C
So
the
libation
ceremony
that
you're
going
to
see
there's
many
different
versions.
Many
different
variations
I
could
easily
facilitate
it
for
an
hour
and
still
not
have
enough
time
I'm
going
to
do
an
abbreviated
version
and
in
the
interest
of
time,
I'm
going
to
kind
of
do
it
a
bit
rapidly
so
that
we
can
honor
everyone's
time
and
time
to
eat.
So.
C
An
ancient
tradition,
it's
non-religious,
so
no
matter
what
your
faith
is,
no
matter
what
your
denomination
is
you're,
not
welcome
to
participate
in.
It's
not
only
for
black
folks,
for
everyone.
Vibrations
is
a
tradition
that
you
would
find
in
ancient
American,
Native,
American
cultures
in
Africa
and
Asia,
and
also
in
parts
of
Europe.
So
it's
part
of
a
human
tradition
to
honor
our
elders,
honor,
our
ancestors
at
the
organ
of
libation
in
certain
parts
of
Asia.
They
might
pour
rice
in
certain
other
parts
of
the
world
that
might
pour
wine.
C
If
anyone
saw
it
moving,
Cooley
High,
you
want
to
remember
that
they
were
pouring
some
for
the
brothers
and
sisters
who
weren't
here.
They
know
that's
an
ancient
African
tradition
of
foreign
libation,
so
it's
an
honoring.
That's
essentially
what
we're
doing
that
foreign.
B
C
C
We
give
thanks
to
our
African
ancestors,
who
were
the
creators
and
our
generators
of
civilization
without
them.
None
of
us
would
be
here
in
this
civilization
that
we
have
here
today
and
we're
talking
about
civilization,
we're
talking
about
human
culture
and
human
civilization,
not
just
the
civilization
of
black
people.
So
to
those
ancestors,
we
give
thanks
by
pouring
Innovations.
C
We
honor
our
ancestors
who
were
taken
stolen,
bought
so
from
Mama
Africa
to
those
who
came
across
the
transatlantic
slave
trade,
known
as
the
mahapa.
The
mahapa
means
the
great
tragedy
for
those
who
were
taken
and
who
came
on
that
voyage.
We
want
to
honor
those
who
did
The
Germ,
who
did
not
survive
the
journey.
We
want
to
honor
and
recognize
those
whose
Souls
sprinkle
the
floor
of
the
Atlantic
Ocean.
As
we
stand
here
today.
We
want
to
honor
them
by
Point
vibrations,.
C
To
those
ancestors
who
did
survive,
how
do
we
know
they
survived?
Because
we
are
here
all
right
now,
so
we
give
thanks
to
them
for
their
resilience
for
their
strength,
for
their
hope
for
their
prayer,
for
their
belief
and
for
their
sheer
no
strength
to
be
able
to
survive
on
the
tragedies
and
the
horrors
that
they
did.
We
honored
them
by
born
migration.
C
C
To
those
ancestors
who
came
all
the
way
North
to
many
different
communities,
many
different
municipalities,
most
notably
to
Evanston
Illinois.
We
want
to
acknowledge
them
and
thank
them
since
the
late
mid-1850s
onward.
They
found
their
way
here
in
many
different
ways,
through
many
different
pathways
through
many
different
struggles,
but
they
made
it
and
they
were
part
of
this
community
since
the
Inception
of
this
community.
So
we
want
to
honor
her
by
pornographers.
C
To
those
ancestors
in
Evanston,
though
many
of
us
knew
to
those
who
come
from
many
of
our
families,
we
want
to
acknowledge
at
least
some
of
it
we're
not
going
to
call
out
their
names.
If
you
know
their
names,
you
can
simply
repeat
their
name
after
I,
say
it
or,
you
can
simply
say
ashay
the
after
I
called
their
name,
and
these
are
just
some
of
the
great
Latin
epistonians
who
are
now
our
ancestors
Adam
Perry
Josephine
Taylor
Wayne,
Twiggs,
Dr,
Elizabeth,
Garnett,
Butler,
Charles,
Boyer,
foreign
Mr,
Burton,
Dr,
Charles,
Thomas,
Dr,
Harold,
Lloyd,
family.
C
C
We
honor
them
by
pouring
like
faces
and
to
recognize
the
son
of
our
elders,
who
have
also
paved
the
way,
those
who
are
still
living
today,
I'm
going
to
call
out
just
some
of
the
names
Amanda
Johnson,
the
Morris
Owens
Carlton
Jerry
size
4..
He
Praises
Oliver,
Rowe,
Nathan,
caliberton,
praying
Joy,
Don,
Walton,
Janet,
Alexander,
Charlene,
Cheryl,
Butler,
Denise,
Martin,
Baptiste,
Rose,
Johnson,
Terry,
Shepard,
Betty,
Sue,
Esther,
Judith,
Treadway,
Bob,
Reese,
Willie,
Shaw,
okay,
Jerry
seisborne,
Don,
Mitchell,
Bennett
Johnson,
and
many
many
many
many
others.
Some
who
I
see
here
today.
C
Latest
technology,
my
glasses
and
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
the
labor.
The
land
that
we
are
on
of
our
Native
American
brothers
and
sisters
will
be
here
before
many
of
us
are
here.
We
want
to
acknowledge
the
over
65
000
who
live
in
the
Chicagoland
area
today,
who
consider
this
still
to
be
their
home,
those
of
the
Odawa,
the
Ojibwe,
the
monogamy,
the
whole
Chuck,
the
Potawatomi
and
many
others.
C
C
And
as
far
as
the
labor,
the
help
to
build
this
land-
and
this
is
the
last
portion
of
the
ceremony
I'm
here-
to
acknowledge
and
pay
respect
to
the
late,
formerly
enslaved,
African
people
and
invite
us
all
to
acknowledge
the
United
States.
As
we
know
it
was
built
on
the
often
Freedom
expense
of
kidnapped
and
forcibly
enslaved,
African
people.
C
We
remember
those
who
toil
on
the
ground
or
many
of
our
homes
are
our
Parks,
our
community
centers,
our
theaters,
our
museums,
businesses,
business
districts
and
places
of
worship
that
have
been
built
on
land
that
was
once
Native,
Americans
and
land.
That
was
built
by
the
forced
labor
from
slave
African
people.
We
acknowledge
all
the
immigrants
lately
past
and
presence,
including
voluntary
and
involuntary
trafficked
and
undocumented
people
who
contributed
to
the
building
of
our
nation,
continue
to
serve
in
the
labor
force.
C
Today
we
are
convinced
to
their
labor
their
sacrifice,
their
resilience,
their
soul
and
knowledge
and
the
destruction
of
too
much
of
their
culture.
We
acknowledge
the
multi-generational
trauma
that
is
felt
and
witnessed
here
today.
We
pay
respect
to
their
ancestors
their
elders
and
extend
our
recognition
to
their
perceptions.
A
A
A
A
A
D
I
guess
if
I
were
now
I'm
going
to
one
of
the
things
that
I
would
not
find
out
here
at
A,
Moment
Like
This
is
just
before
I
did
the
prayer
I.
D
D
D
Television
and
one
of
them
was
a
congressman
Walters
of
Washington
DC.
He
had
been
there
before
and
I.
Never
will
forget
him
saying
these
words
and
we
were
all
together
in
that
slave
and
I
wish
I
knew,
which
one
it
was
if
it
went
for
me.
I
wish
I'm
good
when
I
think
about
this
moment
here
and
evolution.
D
Just
before
I
say
that
I
want
you
to
know
my
prayers.
Only
a
half
page
I
want
you
to
know
that
I
never
heard
of
Evanston
until
2003
and
I'm,
not
exactly
sure
why,
in
a
nutshell,
in
1892
my
mother's
grandma,
Alice
Jones
relocated
to
Evanston
from
Southwestern
Michigan.
She
would
later
marry
Dr
Charles
Fox
and
they
serve
this
community
until
they
died.
She
in
1959,
before
I
was
born
in
1986..
D
So
that
is
about
an
interfaithful
gracious
and
loving
Creator
God.
We
come
with
thankfulness
parts
of
gratitude
and
the
minds
filled
with
infinite
possibilities
that
all
things
are
possible.
We
come
perched
on
the
precipice
of
hopes
that
have
been
realized
and
dreams
that
are
yet
coming
true.
We
thank
you
for
this
particular
moment
in
history
and
this
specific
space
and
place
that
is
Evanston,
but
now
now
o
God
upon
this
place.
That
has
now
become
the
epicenter
of
reparations
in
the
United
States.
D
We
are
a
part
of
the
primary
left
ventricular,
a
order
that
runs
to
the
very
heart
of
this
nation
and
those
who
are
here
today
led
by
Robin,
Simmons
and
others
are
pioneers
of
a
moment.
That
is
deeply
transformed,
where
at
the
very
beginning,
not
over
100
meters,
strength
racing
with
all
of
our
energy
to
the
deadline.
D
But
we
are
in
a
marathon
of
relay
Marathon,
a
brand
new
event
where
we
have
begun
the
race
and
are
moving
now
to
turn
the
reparations
of
baton
over
to
metropolitan
areas,
from
California
to
Massachusetts,
from
Georgia
to
Wisconsin,
under
divine
presence.
We're
asking
that
you
guide
us
safely
and
carefully:
may
we
be
United
in
the
spirit
in
purpose
and
with
undeniable
resilience,
that
any
historical
wrong
can
be
amended
to
a
contemporary
right.
D
Injustice
in
days
of
old
can
be
turned
to
Modern
Justice
for
the
left
out
the
leftover,
the
misused
and
abused
come
in
this
moment
to
pause
and
acknowledge
the
hundreds
of
thousands
and
millions
you
did
not
make
it
to
this
moment.
Bleach
light
bones
lying
on
the
bottom
of
the
Atlantic
Ocean
the
grizzly
horror
of
action
that
beatings
and
lynchings
that
took
so
many
and
yet
on
this
25th
day
of
August
2023,
we
are
representatives
of
the
dreams
of
those
who
died
before
us
bless
such
a
moment.
D
A
A
So
if
you
need
help
with
getting
a
plate,
if
you
don't
have
somebody
with
you
to
do
that,
then
please
let
me
know
about
if
we
could
start
in
this
corner
to
Sheet's
table
three
table
and
then
we'll
do
the
green
table
there.
The
three
of
the
tables,
I
guess.
A
A
The
preparations
program,
the
ordinance,
was
planned
to
work
under
our
own
Affairs
for
imaginately,
but
he
certainly
was
quick
to
take
up.
The
mantle
would
be
to
support
us
to
advocate
for
us,
and
it's
really
been
wonderful,
to
have
really
embrace
the
program
along
the
way
and
I.
Thank
him
for
being
here
with
us
and
he's
going
to
give
us
some
more.
B
E
I
want
to
begin
if
you're,
allow
me
to
thank
yous
I,
know
some
of
the
people
I
think
I'm
about
to
think
that
we
think
already,
but
I
just
do
the
support
and
the
knowledge
the
remarkable
work
by
a
lot
of
different
people.
That
brings
us
to
this
evening.
First
of
all,
to
the
reparations
committee
to
our
leader,
council,
member
I,
guess
we'll
call
her
account.
Council,
member
Robin
who's,
Simmons
council
member
Christy
Harris,
who
has
thrown
herself
into
this
work.
B
E
E
E
Finally,
I
do
want
to
say
that
when
I
talked
to
bears
from
other
cities,
they
they
know
about
our
reparations
program
and
they
have
a
lot
of
questions.
They
know
about
Robin
who's
Simmons
that
usually
veterans
Carter,
speak
and
have
been
inspired,
but
then
they
also
have
all
these
technical
questions
and
many
of
these
communities
are
big
cities
like
Detroit
and
San
Francisco
and
Atlanta
and
they're
they've
got
whole
armies
of
people
on
their
staff,
who
are
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
make
this
happen
and
they
they
want
to
know
who's
our
army.
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Something
else
that
has
to
happen
is
that
those
who
were
harmed
needs
to
be
willing
to
partner
with
us
and
accepting
our
effort
to
repair
and
I
want
to
be
clear.
Nobody
owes
us
that
nobody
owes
us
that
right,
amen.
Now,
yeah
you've
chosen
to
walk
with
us
in
that
journey
of
repair
and
I.
I
really
do
not.
Thank
you
enough
for.
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My
own
family
background
on
that
exact
subject,
because
it
and
I
think
about
this
all
the
time
my
mother's
parents,
both
survived
the
Holocaust
and
their
their
parents
did
not
survive
the
Holocaust
and.
B
E
E
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Without
acknowledgment
prepared
to
walk
down
this
town
of
trying
to
allow
them
the
chance
to
repair
that
one
and
I
carry
those
two
examples,
but
hey
those
two
stories
from
my
own
possibility
when
I
think
about
the
work
for
me
today,
I
know
that
nobody
owes
us
anything
anybody
to
whom
the
Opera
operations
could
say.
I'm.
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B
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A
So
what
we're
going
to
do
is
make
sure
that
everybody
can't
take
the
blocks,
because
we
have
a
few
more
events
that
we
have
to
use.
But
you
can
take
the
flowers
and.
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A
A
A
B
A
A
A
A
A
A
One
last
thing:
the
thing
the
camera
here
is
actually
Nightline,
so
if
anyone
is
interested
in
willing
to
be
interviewing
the
recipients
and
their
family,
the.