 gentlemen, let's take a solemn moment. Thank you for your cooperation. Your mic is over there by the speaker. Thank you, thank you very much. I'm your MC. Today, my name is Zao Tao, standing next to me is my co-host. Her name's Shal. Yes. Good morning everybody, and standing next to us are the more shows of today's parade. I'm very excited to be an Asian American Pacific Islander, cultural and the Indian American. All generally the past three years have been challenging for Asian Americans, but I believe in their strength and resiliency, and they will overcome whatever comes their way. But they cannot overcome each everyone marching together and hand in hand and appreciating each other as one community. So thank you, Mayor, for preparing this first ever historical parade. Let's take this first step to find unity in diversity together. Thank you very much. To see the surge of the unsettled disease, that's the suffering of the Asian people have been going through every day. So here I hope everybody to stand together against racial discrimination and hate crimes. That's what it is. The Commission of Community Affairs Unit. Now think about this for a moment. This is the first AAPI parade of this magnitude in size. When the two of them came up with the idea, they heard so many reasons why it should not have happened throughout the years and why it couldn't happen. But I know only one reason why it should happen. They should happen because this community has given so much to the city and to be able to march and celebrate. This is your way of showing not only your political strength, but it shows how you are very much part of the fiber of this city. And so we only have one message to everyone. Get this done. We will march and have a parade when it is in our message that we stand against Asian hate. We stand against anti-Semitism. We stand against hate to other ethnic and cultural groups. Our brothers and sisters from the Sikh community. Hate has no place in New York City. We respect each other. So I'm happy that this year is the first year that we have the AAPI. And now I'll ask you a question. What is the fastest growing group in New York? And proud of this community, trying to write immigration laws that let many more Asian Americans and Asians and Pacific Islanders come to New York and come to America. Because the more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders we have in New York, the better New York is. But I am so proud to be here with all of you. And salute you, the future of America and the future of New York.