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Council Member Hanif's remarks on racial segregation and xenophobia

3:23:10

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72 sec

Council Member Shahana Hanif addresses the exhibit on racial segregation and responds to the previous interaction with Jackson. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the history of racial segregation in housing policy and criticizes the nativism displayed earlier in the hearing.

Recommends that everyone read the exhibit to learn about decades-long racial segregation built through policy
Highlights the ongoing efforts to address segregation through community organizing and tenant rights movements
Criticizes the nativism displayed earlier, noting it fosters xenophobia and social division

Shahana Hanif

3:23:10

Thank you, and great to see so many of my constituents here testify, and I guess I'll start first with redesign the red line.

3:23:24

Thank you so much.

3:23:26

For taking me through the exhibit a couple of days ago, and it's still it's still downstairs, and I I recommend highly recommend that you all really read through the exhibit to to learn the decades decades long segregation racial segregation that had that had been built through policy and has residually just been in place.

3:23:53

And counsel after counsel, admin after admin, have attempted through the support of community organizing, tenant organizing, tenant rights movements, to lift the segregation.

3:24:05

And and and this also speaks to the kind of nativism that, you know, was shared with you Jackson that that additionally fosters xenophobia and all types of social division and exclusion practices.

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