mayor of new orleans, who now works the with the biden administration as a senior and visor on infrastructure spending. mayor mitch landrieu is the author of in the shadow of statues, a white southerner confronts history. also with us -- one of the coolest names you are going to. get who worked on the claiborne corridor in the mitch landrieu administration and now a equity officer for the -- equity -- mayor, mitch landrieu we will start with you. -- [applause] i'm going to put you in the hot seat, because this is the challenge you tear down a highway and whether it is here or in over town or in miami or in five points at denver, -- came in and black meat is got displaced. now you have a community that is, there you tear down the highway, you impact him in a more negative way. you can't necessarily do that. you do the improvements --