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last september one of the worst racial disturbances in the history of the city of san Francisco took place in an eight block area. Up and down third street here in the Bayview Hunters Point area. The focal point of the entire disturbance was in this building right

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across the street, the Bayview Community Center at the corner of 3rd and Newcombe, right after the disturbance was over, there was talk about, we've got to do something for that area and the question is what has been done and to find out if anything has been

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done. I talked with Mr Harold brooks, who is the executive director of the Community Center, well above the efforts of the people in the community themselves. Uh Carlton, the only thing that has happened has been a lot of talk and a minimum of positive action. What

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about the condition of the building? Inside? What kind of shape is it in of the building is in very bad shape because most of the equipment and things was damaged or so during the disturbance, and very little of it has been replaced since that time. We

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do not have adequate space for storing equipment are for are things that the young people are, are using and we do not have adequate equipment for the programming that needs to be done in the area now. How about as far as the youngsters last year who

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took part in the demonstration here in the disturbances? Didn't some of those youngsters get jobs? Uh, yes, there was supposedly to have been 2000 jobs and some went to work for the government, some for the post office and some for the chamber of commerce, uh, jobs.

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The chamber of commerce that located most of those jobs were meaningless because there was no preparation for the young people. The employers didn't understand them and the young people were trying to adjust to a new situation. And so in the last two or three months, I've

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had more and more young people gathering on our corners and coming in asking for jobs and what are they going to do this coming summer? The people who live here want to do something. They've come up with an idea and now it's up to the government

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and up to the city of SAn Francisco to help them carry out their plans. This is Carlton cordell reporting.