 So we're going to be facing the east this evening. We're having a service center this evening. You want to stay on this camera. You have one more control on this camera coming this afternoon. OK. It's also not much recording. Zoom you up. We'll do it every time we gather. OK. To a college. Key word. Part of the plan from the beginning. People who are here for this place. Generations. Generations. That would be the quick. So we give honor to those folks who have welcomed us into this space. Please. Here. Yes. Today. Actually. That says it's up to the audience going in and out. Yeah. He's a termination. People that we want to hear from. Or this evening. When you're using the box. Hold it up here. So it's right under your mouth. I'm not using it anymore. Did you tell anybody else? Because the audio is fading out. This is not working. Can you hear me now? OK. All right. My prayer for this evening is that time that we're in which can only be described as a crisis of clarity will remain with us for a long time. We have all dealt with some degree of solitude for the last four months. Some of it works. But through that solitude. We've got. We've got the ability to focus on the importance of us. And as we've seen some of the structures of our economy and our government. Be rattled to the ground. It also has allowed us to clarify. Some of the conditions of the city. Some of you check in on that for a generation or more. When it comes to rebuilding. I think it's important to note that the clarity and focus that we've been given in this period of time through this pandemic. And the Taylor. And so many others that came before them. Would give us the courage to build a more just more resilient more equitable community for everyone. That is our charge. That is my hope. That's my prayer. And that is my commitment to you as your mayor. And to you as my mayor. We have a really good experience with this crisis. And working together as we know very well, San Antonio's to do. We will build a city. That is resilient. For the next generation. God bless you. For that equity that we all see so very much. Thank you very much. Thank you to all the organizers. For being here tonight. I think that it is time that we understand that those two go hand in hand. As people are looking for help, they also want action. And I just want to commit to you as this council, along with the mayor, I can't do any of them. I'll bring equity to our city. Truly, truly thanks to all those partitions who are all taking incredible time. The city has seen so much suffering. Many people are crying out for justice in the streets. They protested. There's nothing more patriotic than wanting your community to grow. The attention is being paid to the protest. One soldier is a war against racism. And those courageous people are the people of the Black Lives Matter movement. They are taking on the burden of the black lives of them. They have given their all. They pay off from being soldiers. Black lives never mattered. You have given all peoples one. You know that skin is not racist. For all the people that were turned into white, like Jordan, Fred King, or some others, for the purpose of relieving white supremacists, for indigenous people who were turned into Indians, and for Africans that lost their men they showed them. Zula, by another institution specifically, we've heard of African-American black, the way American should be killed by the police. Texas's loop is the largest intrusion of these murders from the years 2013 to 2019, 157 blacks were killed in Texas. 123 died while in SHPD custody, and it's been included between 2005 and 2015 and senior period. The majority being black. We are members of George Brown, George Jackson, Stephen B. Cohn, Solomon Melando of South Africa, Hector Sanford's court, Noble Cooper, cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the police officers in San Antonio, Charles Roundtree Jr., Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Alando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Eric Brown, Justin Hyland, and dozens of others who are vigilante, who have fallen untouched. It is your will, Lord, that we are together together, here as one family, for reason and for crime against humanity. Fill the hearts of mankind with the fire of their love and understanding of righteous judgment and with the desire to ensure justice for all. By sharing the good things you give us, may we secure inequality and freedom for all our brothers and sisters throughout the world. May it be an interdivision, police brutality, white supremacy, and unjust war. May it be a drawing of truly human society, built on love and justice, and not on the false idea of white supremacy and skin color. May the true history of this city be told, and how it was built on the ideas of racism, what we should have said against brutality, against police brutality, and did not say, for all of the things we could have done to prevent police association from creating an oppressive system that is unaccountable and did not do, for all of the things we could have thought over the years to prevent the unfair taking of our city dollars while social justice suffered and did not think. We beg forgiveness and strength to fight against injustice in spite of ourselves. But today, Lord, the spirit of unity for the cause of Black Lives Matter prevails has shown across the world, and we salute and honor the courageous soldiers on the front line in the battle against racism, Black Lives Matter movement. This movement is over 400 years in the making and has come to this pivotal moment. We ask you, Lord, for victory against our oppressors in the name of Jesus, our Lord. Amen. Our nation, talking to community members and being a caring friend isn't enough. And even being, as I've been talking to a lot of people now, it's to be brave, like the prophets before us. All of us, no matter what your color, your gender, your religion, all of us need to be brave and stand up for what we know is right and just. We all have to be responsible for each other. And so the prayer I offer this evening is this holy one of blessing. Make every have we let this be normal for so long. Wow. Make us brave, brave enough to stand in discomfort and to really listen, brave enough to open our eyes and see the discrimination, the cruelty, the violence, brave enough to open our mouths and stand up for fairness and justice, to stand up against apathy, reluctance to change, stand up against fear to change. Make us committed enough to embark on the long term, arduous journey that lays before us. Let this be the moment in our lifetime when we decide, every single one of us, to be dissatisfied enough, brave enough and strong enough to make our world as passionate enough to no longer believe we should. So I will do the best of these thoughts that I realize that were in the middle of this trauma suicide, syncopated, suicide, syncopated, synastas break from trying to merely survive. My synastas are starving for breath. They break into rhythm. They break into rhyme out of story. They sing, crying, starving for breath and breathing. My speech around these words, suicide, syncopated, synastas, is it 1962? It sounds like it. 2020, what year is it? Why do I still cry for my black sons? Why am I shutting down, starving for air? I can't breathe, my heart beats out of rhythm. I still find words, words that are held together by the breaking and breathing words that are wrapped in very good songs, words sang among my strong black women, words sang and words are offered as we listen. Only listen, not to respond. Queer black women, black women, my knees are torn. St. Martin's Church regrets that she can't be with his wife, but she asked us to share these words from St. Martin's Church community, which is adjacent to Transylvania. We have a move for the witness of our San Antonio community to stand ready to partner with our brothers and sisters to work for a more just community. We will listen and actively engage in what is necessary to work for a more just and peaceful city. We pray in lament and solidarity with our black brothers and sisters and look for a society that reflects the dreams of God. We confess our own complicity and pray for humility and courage as we move forward together in compassion and love. Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving spirit may so move every human heart and especially the hearts of the people of this land that was hidden, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear and hatred cease. That our divisions, being healed, we may live in justice and peace. Can we take a deep breath of courage? Can we take a deep breath of courage that will help us heal, help us see? Greater God, my spirit, I pray that this evening to be with us always as we journey from this place might be certainly have the courage to face those viruses in our faces and that's always greater than theirs. Here is human beauty and so we ask you to call us all back at Good Red Road, at Heal and Fulfill Street, at Community and Love. Mind in the drama, the ones that represented in our hearts in the drama we might hear now, remind us that all of our hearts are connected, that we are all relieved, that all of creation is yours, is connected, because you have connected with us. Might we continue to help others heal, might we continue to heal from those viruses of racism and might we eliminate this virus that so much feels than are certainly if things. With the opportunity to be part of the healing of the flux, I get to be Indigenous theologian with a good reading on behalf of the leaders here in the city. Passion is in Antonio as well as a great place to be shouldn't we give thanks for all of your presence here in this space and might we grow stronger in prayer each day and might we depart here in strength by this witness by this crowd. Thank you.