board members mr willie philips and mr philips are going to give a little bit of his background and we kind of this want to show that we want to highlight a few discussions with the bad drive being   and also the changing demographics willy little bit about yourself and and some of the boards that you sit on and this discussion on economic parity well first of been on numerous boards been on was the chair of the human will for community action which is a commission that sincerely deals with poverty issues and one of the issues that we deal with is community block service grants and that was due to actually women and i allude this because mrs brown is one of those people that but i'm here on the basis of many of these women like her as well as mrs brown and i've always saw the very fact is that even despite the fact that men like to claim themselves as being leaders i've always have had the real privilege to work with very strong powerful women and particularly african american women with that said she was the former chair of the of that particular commission been on the i've also been on our cd board which you know which is a resource community development board i mean  her and that was something that i think is giving me a whole overview in terms of economics more so i'm also on the loan board which is essentially a city more that is responsible for recommending funding for businesses in berkeley which is something that's very important because many people are aware of this particular particular resources available but it's people in particular businesses that receive the funds really are kind of like those that have been on the inside but it's something like that that is really important terms of being able to make a critical link between knowing what we says are out there and in some form how to be able to get those resources and that's something i think in being an equity issue is that who has the resources who are able to basically receive those resources and why they get those and so you know you sit near our corner and it is a problem statement things from policy link it says america continues to be more  economy equity justice and fair inclusion into a society where everyone can participate and prosper no longer under a more imperative it is an economic of policy links that you sent me that in the context of that what do you think are the economic imperatives and as you talked about it we want to bring you on because you are trying to develop a  to resources many times what happens is there's a barrier between those and we sit on a board that represents some of those issues  instance in housing the tickler those people who usually end up benefiting from it are not like us i mean i've been on various particular projects and r c d resource community development represents over four hundred million dollars asset base the very fact is that when they do developments that could amount to thirty million dollars multi unit projects there are not any black architects there are no contractors that concerns me acis so more as a board member but i asked as well as being able to provide jobs to be able to provide an income for people and for the most part when you look at those inequities it's how do you make those connections how do you link people that are in my neighborhood which are on decreasing in terms of african americans that the crease is from thirty percent in the one nine hundred seventy s to some say eight percent know it also wouldn't amount to the  that many people do not see berkeley as a place to live because they cannot afford that many people do not have jobs in order to be able to provide for their families in peace back on that discussion ago and its goal was to help lower income students of progress and to college now that program may still exist but my understanding and my feeling is become more  program and more involved with folks that are of that lower economic ilk so what we find is the programs that we're used to calif policy to education being cut back or totally different aspect of education of learning of gold skill orientation my point is that the economic issue is education issue it's a health issue it's a housing issue it is starts with economics but it dovetails into so many things you're correct there was a little carry on to what you just mentioned before one of the but ticklers legacies of of actually johnson's administration was to create a level field where he was dealing with poverty education was one part of that analysis of economic opportunity but more important that he also had another carry on called the reinvestment part of that and that time socially disadvantage it's evolved to social demands because we don't like to use the word actually african american or blacks or inequity it so is now broadened that term to is social disadvantage and what that really tailed was what now or the attributes of housing affordable housing the attributes of funding through what we know was micro enterprise even in terms of the board than that i'm on and terms of being able to give loans revolving loans all of those things were part of the attributes of the johnson administration and for the most part what happened what it was opt and sense that you had various particular people who were sophisticated and they were able to make it into a job provided for certain but took a class and what has happened over the years of service actually come exonerated winner exactly and not only that it became an issue where if you have the certain particular latitude in terms of education through it you'll pee you know economic opportunities you could actually become one of those gatekeepers and those gatekeepers became very similar to those people who were the same people that were keeping those people from coming over here like to keep this real you know for  forty nine point one main americans go hungry and households headed by black and non white from the u s d a the discussion of food security i have a friend who could only get fifteen dollars with a food the latex of economics plays itself out in the food security and education and safety all those things or befitting to say that there's a matrix that if you don't have housing you don't have food to eat on the table that you don't have even the the security of being able to have a stable home that obviously ends up being an economic issue of course and it's something that i think a lot of people become very isolated because they specialize in education they specialize in housing they speciali and health they specialize in food security they specialize in all these areas but when it really comes down to it is being able to bring that matrix into perspective and i have a clear dialogue  part of the solution is that you have to broaden the specs from you have to be able to create a template that opens up dialogue between people who normally don't discuss some of these issues because they all in some form or another ties into the economic equation one of the issues that you mentioned even in your first particular question was why is it important to to to have a s while the bosal important thing that i see in this is that you're bringing people who normally don't talk to each other on the class spectrum and i'm not talking about jess inviting jess the o of wells fargo who happens to be in san francisco i'm not talking about inviting jess the the the chair of the federal reserve i'm not talking about inviting those people discuss about these issues they need to be addressing is a will is issues that are on the ground floor people who are affected by that like for instance yesterday we went to see actually an opening for a project in which resource community development developed in terms of a rehab thirty year old property in which in some form or another they're making people's lives better by being able to make make make the housing that they're more habitable but at the same time when you look at the real equation some of the people that should be at the table are those very people that live in those housing and that's the lacking is that i grew up in berkeley i'm going to u c berkeley i know that there are many policy people in berkeley and all the people that i explained before like janet yellen who happens to be a u are all part of being able to discuss issues that could affect people and it's not just on the level of berkeley surprisingly enough berkeley is not the center of the universe you kidding buckley happiness to be a place where they are many people that are involved in policy that happen to be both in clinton's administration as well as as the present min another eleven million are underemployed or forming are stuck in jobs that pay under minimum wage the financial collapse reveal proudest of slow in an equal growth in place decades before the recent crisis but masked by a though this group of folks has got a special work and why should they be working here when good folks like myself can't get a job well that's part of the the problem is that you have a much wider gap between those that have and those that they don't have so i'm going to be clear the economics of this fuel the racial in this and i don't think the racial and crime and housing their food clothing shelter issues well let's pay all of us here we're not that far from chattel slavery ok i recall my mom who live grandfather's older brother was a slave i know that what indicate the very very fact that even despite the fact that that's just two generations that we still have that same mentality race still plays a very firm on role in the economic chain of things why african americans are not able to get jobs why they're not able to even for us outside of the area of being creative and being able to contribute to society when they are already downtrodden and they're conditioned to believe that they're not able to see the only reason why people can see the very fact is the only way they can see out is be able to be a rap star or to be a sensually a sports figure when the reality is are those spots a very exclusive and even what that said they were in fact is that those options are not available to them because their environments or very very small the flip side of course of that  physician or lawyer or teacher are now in conflict with folks that view you as a threat from a electoral standpoint and that threat is founded on the base of it myself racial undertones about the elect of africans belittle han all those things that are totally untrue well think about where in less than a mile from the university i grew up in self berkeley the realities are how many kids how many black kids actually go through the university's campus less known go there get to a point where you realize the contradiction between berkeley's liberal status and it's lacking that in terms of the contradictions growing up in berkeley gives you a certain particular insight about what berkeley really is when you look at the level of even black students graduating from berkeley high school less known going to black colleges when you look at the very fact is that the level of economic disparities when you look at the issues where african americans are not able to live in berkeley when you look at the issues in terms of the health but tickler issues that are in despair in terms of the people that are actually being able to have health care having asses to it it all equates to the reflect is that we're looking at this contradiction that many policy makers are not able to to wrap their of the their heads around because of the fact that we're living in the fact that we are from that free speech movement and we where african americans are geared towards each thought that possibly he would have a better opportunity in the marines because you would have to pay this high price goes to u c l a and we know that and was a to promote investment in building wealth in minority communities provide access to economic information regards to technology and training it was also taught to community development all these layers provide economic in this economic things that you'd like to see in your summit what i like to see is a gathering of people from different backgrounds talking about solutions if i have the answers to that i wouldn't least i wouldn't i wouldn't be in fear i wouldn't be here in terms with you sold the very fact is that getting people in a dialogue in a structured dialogue that you are looking developing and slice out this economic pie always think it's funny that from a discussion around affirmative action in providing contract before there was even even with the displaced of a farmer they were providing that many contracts to people of color less than five percent so to cut into five percent and say don't you don't need them this is all a fair play for a fair playing field and that's my discussion we've had this discussion about why is it that blacks can't get together why is it that there's always the issue it was designed to be an issue i want to give you the fog of war the most important thing to this is creating the bridge for people to talk and there has to be a dialogue that has to be honesty within that dialogue about what are some of those issues what are the bridges that keep us from not being able to come up with solutions and i think that being in berkeley and being on the isle scores because i live a block up from oakland that we can be a model for that dialogue perhaps we may not solve all the solutions in one gathering but the very fact is bringing that dialogue in context is critical i don't think there's has been anything of this nature that is occurred how we go how do you you can conversation i'm glad you like me to throw my little pieces in because we've got a totals in i want to thank you for a green light to a very very dark world i think you as a visionary  seeing hair brought a wealth of experience and working behind the scenes i'm glad we get a chance to see you now behind the scenes but because you work so much to do so many things to speak for the speaker for those who do have a