poking about making sure that they have spaces we're not property when they had finished their rebuild and so on so we're definitely camping and lobbying them and talking with them to make sure they don't forget about us and so yeah that's i mean right  to see more minorities in golf tiger woods is probably the last minority that was on the professional to and there should be more not only as players but also as technicians right and that's what our t i is doing heaven these kids learn the camera skills video production etc and i'm also a member would score which is the division of small business administration i meant to people who want to start up businesses  and get the resources that will allow them to get the money so they can expand that business as the downfall of a lot of businesses that don't have enough startup capital but i'm in a position right now to help the people that want to go into business and be a part of the community john school and not to just be joining another meeting or have a place to go a john sc because there were there was not one africa kind of american part of that establishment i joined in that sense brought in africa can americans to be on the board of school by having more of us at this business downtown and we also have an office on rainer avenue we allow other effort americans to have access to those resources that are with the small business administration where they don't have to go downtown we have an office on rayna avenue and you can contact me through some form and i'll get the information out to you but i've been and integra part of this community for over thirty years and i'm just  doing what i do helping people and i love it it's my call and i've answered the call yet one thing i would like to just discuss here is we have been discussing actually about golf yeah it's seems that you know when we look at it it's just it's for r golf is not for rich people it will improve your golf was for rich people i never would have played act never would have played i got started in god when i was eight years old in the south where black people weren't supposed to play golf but i had a dad who was a former thinking person at that time and he introduced me to golf by him introducing me to golf i was able to play golf f in his high school i played golf with the navy and it's public golf is for everybody tiger woods has done more to bring minorities and people of color into golf than any other person before him black people didn't want to play golf they thought it was a white man's sport and it is not a white man's ok but but at the time they they used to set the balls on and he figured out a way to fashion a piece of wood into a tee we can stick it in the ground set the ball on top of that and he just created this this this t and he never got credit for it it's amazing that he never got credit for it but that's how it started yes no rule t's not something that use throughout the they that that he would have done in golf they don't get credit for and it's it's long been thought of as a white man's bill but is not gaap is for everybody and the diversity in golf is so low right now that i'm doing my part to bring in mor al it was started by joe lewis the boxer and his son took it over and it is your main do for at risk kids these programs get these kids into golf for you they don't need money all they need to do is come into the program by coming into the program is the carrot because kids that hit something you know but with the first tee learning life skills is a biggie that's where you learn how to just learn more about yourself how to learn how to get along with your playing partners you know how to be sociable skills that they don't really teach in high school right now there's so much to learn by coming into the first team and just getting involved like i said you don't need money to get involve with a priest he you don't even need golf clubs all you need to do is show up and express a desire to learn the game i have  hundred eighty six not only as a teaching professional but also i own the restaurant there for ten years and since then there's not been ever been a another person of color to own a restaurant i don't know why documentary and i was going to put on free stress reduction workshops because we are what i actually want to do was bring a heel into the community because there was a lot of stress there and that's address they used yeah that stress stays in the body yes and the technique that energy technique similar to occupants are but without the needles you only have to use the two fingers and just tap it and believe it or not but doing that you are bringing new energy into your brain it's good afternoon it is an honor to be here today it is an honor to be at the swearing in of sam as the next director of our office of planning and community development you know i am so happy for sam is here and i'm happy because of the work he's done in boulder and chicago and san francisco but not just because of the work he's done but how he's accomplish what he has done and i think it's really going to be helpful to us in seattle he believes in our vision of the new office and he does what he does does he he can accomplish will use a complex by cordoning in planning with housing and job centers and open space transportation he's known for breaking down barriers integrating land use design and environmental sustainability we have an amazing opportunity as the city grows and as the changes in this we meet our commitments to open space to transit into affordable housing to do it right to work with communities noddy's separate twenty eight separate city departments and offices but is a coordinated city that reaches out to communities and they can reach out to us understanding that we will coordinate among ourselves our interaction with them i i so look forward to him heading up an effort that will involve so many departments as we reinvent in rian vision how we plan and how we do community does the development issues before us are going to be tough but i know he can do those issues and i want to congratulate sam and i want to think of jill for her willingness to join us here as part of the seattle family congratulations and with that council member johnson  so happy and overjoyed today to be here in support of sam's confirmation about a big smile on my face all the humanity and it's in no small part because we finally come to this day that i've been hoping for for months and months now as  that is dealing with big significant issues like education like displacement like managing new growth to have someone with sam's technical skills and expertise but also his incredible bedside manner leading this department that is in charge of managing all these thorny technical and important community issues i can think of so no one better fit to lead the city in this department and then sam as if i'm just very excited to be a part of that team sam for those of you who may not know of both a bachelor's in  it's an honor to administer the oath of office to sam today and he's joined right by his wife she'll so we're going to get right down so in the past few weeks i've met with many of you and i've had the opportunity to meet with my stuff other department heads and members of council in doing so i've come to better understand the planning challenges we all face today today as one of the country's fastest growing cit seattle faces complex challenges as plans for the future climate change global economy migration and immigration can often create and expect that impacts to establish neighborhoods this requires new thinking about city planning this challenges are not unique to seattle but what is unique is the way seattle has tried to address the issues and has taken a very proactive approach to innovative design in planning policies and address the challenges through planning that i that i think is worth of the city's spectacular city as well as its very rich history i'm very i'm very much looking forward to working with the mayor of the city council and other city departments as well as a diverse communities of seattle and including the business community three other guys a great vision of a vibrant equitable and sustainable city again and really very orner interest for this exciting opportunity i'm also very grateful to the many individuals and organizations of the seattle community for their support and well wishers over the past few weeks i might make a special thanks to those who are here today and most of them include some they're so it's very special for me because of those reasons as well finally i'd like to thank my family and friends for their support and my wife not only for his support but also for how quickly accompany me as my career took us to the fantastic cities of boston san francisco chicago boulder and now seattle told me that seattle is an exciting new chapter and perhaps the best city we've lived in so far because it has everything we loved in those other great cities in one place and have been culture diverse neighborhoods incredible natural beauty thriving arts and business communities and most important the population committed to positive social change i couldn't agree with her more thank you oh world dr paul jackson and i'm sitting in the studio multimedia resource training institute located in the prominent at twenty third in jackson and seattle and the center area and today i've got a good friend of mine murders learner so i'm done a lot just by coming down here and just watch and director and paul how they do this stuff because it is really foreign to me but if you want to learn it and i think it's free i mean to about the property yeah yeah yeah so they really need a place to set up shop again you know because it's a valuable asset and i don't think that it will be done away with because it's too valuable to be just  because i used to be etc sci these have a studio over there but down the street just down the street in fact yeah but they don't have one there anymore and at central you can get actually get a degree in film production years ago ok state pull the funding for the cost of that central can then kind of move it over to north seattle but if you're in the city you don't have to cross a bridge just the traffic here and see how it got worse and worse and worse it's gotten worse yeah getting it so know where i could have gone and got the services that i that i needed in a way else i don't know you know maybe a place but not in this community not a place that's public you know might be some proper citizens that are able to do this included dr quinn taylor who is a research history professor at the universe of washington he's written tons of books about the migration of african americans the west coast and particularly in seattle and he's over the best web site called black passed out org which recently got recognized because they have so much content i think they are the website that has the most articles written about african american people of africa will be asked for and so black passat org and he's a professor at the u and just retired and so he's one of the people i've interviewed of at the astronaut looks and holder who was and was an air force ok and even though he didn't make it into space was his flight was scheduled after the design there  other company i can from my cellphone now actually facebook live stream ok before i was using you stream but actually we're doing now is using you tube and so at the through one hundred building we've gotten some community conversations about education about about jobs housing and about crime ok and so those are the ones we've been working on i'm trying to work on on this whole medical cannabis situation hopefully we can do it before july because the state's going to mpressed with the displayed m m r t i i don't know they put on workshops and seminars yeah yeah well i see that now and then i didn't know that ok yeah so here i have twenty wonderful thing and so so they also go out interviews of people they've done a documentary on the sounders they didn't want on the seahawks ok they did one on the esoteric in the community because the reconstruction of your son's terrace and the demolition of the building and how it's affected a lot of the small  out of work yeah because of the traffic has been diminished diminished that diminished has been the straw eradicate it eradicated if you have to if your business is a walk small business and eighty percent is it because of people walking into your business but now yeah you can go to the city and ask for you know some support on that and get it but there are some things paperwork they have to go through to the get them i see this place as a learning center not only not only for the cameras know that they can do that and that's that's my call is to be a great man is used to do that because i know the potential in every kid every person is that and i know how to unleash it and get it out ok so that everybody can make an offering don't to the community but to the world right the facts are so that's i think that can happen within these walls you know officers when they move yeah i was a teacher i had my first job teaching was first grade for yeah and none of the i'm for you but it's the they've never had a person of color teaching white kids ok didn't bother me at all i needed to work right i did ok and so far it's so for it's been the best if you can call it a job of ever had because i never was never so passionate about sharing what i had learned right you know and i got people just sharing it wow you know and i think we did i think you did a video with me at the library and me talking about it i got it at home yeah yeah i mean talk about that experience ok and the title of it was unexpected joy because i didn't know what to expect that's right you know and i was i was critiqued at the press to come and see if i knew what i was talking about yeah i bet i know early seventies or and in the s it was someone asked if he was is by was a doctor you know but they asked this kid said what do you want to when you grow up he said i want to be an art teacher oh no so that was a compliment to me yeah and i it was it was good you know yeah so i'm a teacher and i love it i just followed the path and it has evolved but now i'm back my deal is to just add more value to people's lives because i know was there m quarter i think the city of seattle has a meeting of other people in the media diverse participants and they have this time at the guard for community center and so we're in this community center and we're having conversations name anyway so we're in a meeting where it's out about the media that they do radio and television and newspapers primarily and a site had his car stolen not the car but the contents of a copy of his car which included some cameras a laptop and hard drives and so on and a green screen lighting system restore one of his truck and so the material part is not so bad because it's material that can be replaced what was really really tragic is was the hard drive because a lot of that content months and years of content was on those hard drives never do interviews and we just mentioned some of the things he did with the yes of communities small businesses a lot of that content was on those hard drives that got stolen and so we're talking with the insurance companies where we need money to replace those things and so we're having a fundraiser this august to how people come and donate and volunteer and sponsor the studio that's one of things that we need to have and that need to happen this summer or fall summer and so that's one of the pitches that we're going to do and if there isn't to the actual relocation that's something else we have to worry about because of the rent and so depending on where roof over here and inside and yet you know and saying after twenty years that once you have a twenty seven years have been no african americans not one not one could join the small business program score it's amazing that's why i joined ok so i could bring in more people there's nobody there to look that looks like them here you know and they seem to you know and i was lucky enough to be there when some would come in and i look inviting and they would come up talk to me you know and whatever you know but now we have an office all winter avenue where they can in the twenty third in jackson prominent facility that discussed person five oaken and so we're looking for people to help support us so we can still do what we do which is top help and teach the current and future generations  about technology and about media and the importance of media because i mean only five companies own all the the recording studios five i think it's five i think it's four or five companies all like mainstream yeah you know yeah yeah those types of things ok and so to be nonprofit to be in the mainstream public access provides people the ability to tell their own story and so that's one of the things that multi media  know from after american standpoint we code switch right so we know how to street talk but then we saw we know how to talk proper right and there's a whole stereotype of acting white and i kind of stuff and talk and proper but our grandparents are beat