Thank you.

So we're just gonna re roll.

We're not gonna vote on the thing.

Okay, yeah.

Right now, this is an informal gathering of some people who happen to be on the Beyond Apology Commission.

Okay, um, so we can we can move the agenda around accordingly.

Yes, yes, so they're ready.

Yes, you're alive.

All right, so I was gonna say good morning, good afternoon, good afternoon, everyone.

Uh this is Beyond Apology Commission.

Um, and today is May 15th, 2026, um, and it is 1 05 p.m.

Um, let's see.

We do some roll call.

We know uh Commissioner Armstrong is here, Commissioner Evans, Vanessa Hall Harper, uh commit um Commissioner Mason.

Is she online?

I feel like she's a oh she's in our no, I'm not looking at Commissioner Monday, Crystal Reyes, Commissioner Greg Taylor, Commissioner Taylor West, President, and myself is present, Dr.

Corency Wilson, that's it, Commissioner Keith.

Commissioner Theresa Dooney.

And am I missing anybody?

No, don't you give me?

I guess what I'm saying.

Um Commissioner Monday is present.

I'm on the zone.

Oh, okay.

There you go.

Good afternoon.

All right, so we're gonna go ahead and call this meeting to order, and we can go ahead and start with uh just taking a couple minutes looking over the meeting minutes from March 20th.

That's the last time I met.

I guess we did, yeah, March 20th, 2026.

We can't vote on anyway.

Yeah, we can't vote on them.

We don't have a quorum.

Let's vote on the next one.

Yeah, so we'll vote both on, and we can still read it.

And I skipped over the ancestral acknowledgement.

Commissioner Dooney, you were supposed to come and hit my hand on that.

Would you like to go ahead and lead us into our start?

Meetings of the minds with a moment of silence or a moment of reflection.

So with hearts full of gratitude to our ancestors who come together.

This time to build a future for our descendants.

May our ancestors flame burn within us, illuminate our way, and teach us to see the light of God's wisdom that serves as a beacon of light to keep us grounded from both nearby and distant challenges.

We are exactly where we need to be right now.

The ancestors' legacy inspire us to faithfully in your life, give us awareness and open up the doors of communication, open up the doors of understanding, open up the doors of restoration.

That's a building inspiration for the next generation.

Maybe we'll be and I would just like to add that um we honor the legacy of some pillars that we've lost in our community.

We've lost uh our former state representative Don Ross.

Uh we lost Bobby Eaton as well, and I would just like to uplift Vanessa Vanessa's mother, who she lost on Mother's Day.

Uh so we want to lift her up also in our thoughts and prayers, and her father as well, who has stage four cancer.

We want to lift him up as well too.

So if you see Vanessa, just give a good hug.

She needs it I'd like to call her mom's name what was her name Ruby Ruby Ruby Hall.

We don't order, we are officially at quorum and then we are officially in forum now thank you, Miss Aaron.

So um, Madam President, I move that we have the minutes accept the minutes for the previous all right I accept okay all in favor to accept the meeting minutes for March 20th of twenty twenty six uh any of those scare me any any of those all right so we have a special guest just to note you guys also have meeting minutes for um the two days of the summit since you all were that was officially a meeting and you were in the forum so um there's an additional document in there front and back for the two days of the summit to approach that it's it's very simple bare bones but since that technically was a meeting as well in forum discussing commission related business um if you would we accept the uh Lancaster University meeting minutes of the Beyond Apology Commission that was held on April 25th 2026 I'm not readiness can we go back and fill out what we did so that we can keep the so that we know what we did at the conference.

Well you wouldn't put that in the minutes.

Maybe you can do an addendum or for record keeping purposes but you all could put out all we're doing is recording that we in lieu of a traditional meeting.

We use that as a meeting to record that we actually met as a committee okay that's awesome okay so we can do that but the meeting minutes were from uh for beyond apology April 24th 2026.

And I would recommend doing the 24th and the 25th.

Okay 24th 25th it's front April 24th and April 25th got you okay all right then I move the meeting second then I move the week so we do not special meeting minutes from April 24th and 25th for the Beyond Apology Commission at Langston University.

Alright in it all right all in favor thank you thank you so much.

So we have we have a special guest today um from Liberating Minds um Mr Francisco has been a community advocate um as long I mean gosh I don't know how long I've known him um but for a good time and I'm always just um amazed at his work um and he travels everywhere as well with his work um and so I'm gonna give him the floor to talk about liberating minds liberating minds was also one of our sponsors for the uh reparation summit and so uh thank you so much for that and the floor is yours all right thank you so much uh Christy and uh commissioners um really appreciate the opportunity to come and speak to them I'm sorry that I couldn't be there in person um I've been I traveled up there two weeks in a row to be on uh in depth with Dion's podcast uh and so my guest take was was asking for you know uh a little recruiting so appreciate the opportunity to just join virtually but uh we'll be up there soon uh the end of the month and hope to hope to see many of you um so yeah like like Christy said my name is Aurelius Francisco for those who don't know me I know several of you but I I'll just give a a brief introduction um I'm born and raised in Oklahoma City uh I went to college at the University of Oklahoma uh I was heavily involved on campus as a student activist uh you may or may not know oh you had no shortage of of anti-black racist incidents uh for years and into today and so because of that, students often spoke up, and uh I was a part of that lineage of of activists on campus who were trying to um address institutional racism and push our university to make some structural changes to better support black students uh and other marginalized students on campus.