0: Most powerful word in the English language for a reason,
especially for black people. And then Patrick Jones goes,
and so I got very angry. I yelled at him, I told him to get the F out,
and then I ended up leaving to get some air and get some space and calm down and
went back in.
And then Patrick Jones goes and defends his first amendment right?
Basically says that if there's nothing wrong with him saying the N word and
using that type of hate speech, that type of rhetoric. And then I,
I out of turn spoke to Patrick Jones and said, so it's okay to use the N word,
but it's not okay for me to do what I'm doing right now, is what you're saying.
You're defending this man in his Nazi hate speech.
And then Patrick Jones calls the sheriff over to es escort me out.
And the sheriff said, he's not doing anything illegal.
And so Patrick Jones called the security guard to come escort me out.
And so I grabbed my stuff and I walked out and I just,
this is why I am the way I am, the way I fight,
the way I've been fighting in this county for so many years because of racist
crap like that.
And for the chair of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors to side with that
level of racism, it's, it's so disheartening. It, it,
it makes me feel like we are not, like progress isn't happening.
That the fact that that type of hate speech can be sided with,
and that I'm going to be escorted out for standing up and saying that,
saying something like that is wrong because I broke decorum rules.
You know what? I also have a first amendment in that building. My taxes,
pay for that building.
I've contributed a lot of my time of my life speaking out in that building.
And to be escorted out,
even the sheriff came out and spoke to me and said that he didn't agree with
this, but he has to do his job. Um,
and if that's the system where, that's his job is to escort the person out, the,
the, the African American person who had to sit there and listen to that type of
hatred, then this <laugh>,
I don't know if we're ever gonna get ourselves out of this crap. So <laugh>,
I'm very angry. I'm very livid right now. Um, I'm not even allowed on the, uh,
the board chamber property for the next 24 hours apparently.
So now I lose my ability to speak during my three minutes because Patrick Jones
thought it was okay to cite with racism.