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SAN LEANDRO EQUITY PLANRECOMMENDATIONS//CULTURE <br />20 >>>>>Younger community activists continue to draw a through line <br />from San Leandro’s racist legacy to its current challenges with <br />race and equity issues. <br />Yes, for many, there continues to be a negative racist narrative for some parts of <br />San Leandro that continues to color its present—particularly among younger <br />activists and stakeholders. <br />While many believe these issues are solidly in the City’s past, many <br />community members and activists still do not believe the City has done enough <br />to formally acknowledge, account for, and/or properly renounce its past. <br />Among many longstanding employees and residents in the City, there is a belief <br />San Leandro has changed for the better over the last 20+ years—whereas there <br />have been people who previously held racially regressive views living/working for <br />the city, many are no longer around and have been displaced by a far more di - <br />verse cadre of employees and residents. <br />There is wide acknowledgement of San Leandro’s racial history—as cited by its <br />previous status as a “sundown town”, as a former haven of the KKK organiza- <br />tion, historical red lining practices, and past housing discrimination policies. <br />FINDINGS <br />“We just want to hear ‘we’re sorry’—it took them 10 months to have them <br />make a Steven Taylor day. We just want them to use the words.”