natural disasters come through and the idea was to build the community back to where it was before, and you can t build it back to where it was before or you are ready to face the same situation again, and we mean that in terms of infrastructure, bridges, tunnels, dams, and we also mean it in the human infrastructure piece of this, so to that point a 2019 study found black americans living in communities hit by disasters that year lost $20,000 in wealth, and white americans in the same area gained more than $126,000 in wealth. how does your plan address disparities like that? this is such an important point that you are raising, because what we see over and over again is the communities that are most disproportionately burdened are the black, brown and indigenous communities that are not at the table for
municipaliies that need these kind of workers. i want to underscore the use of the word resilience. the model used to be one of these natural disasters come through and the idea is to build a community back to where it was before. you can t build it back to where it was before or you re ready to face the same situation again. meaning in terms of infrastructure, bridges, tunnels, dams, and also in terms of the human infrastructure piece, right? so to that point, black americans living in communities studied in 2019, hit by disasters that year lost 20% of health. white americans in the same area gained more than $126,000 in wealth. how disease your plan address disparities like that.
national voter protection action fund and susan del percio, msnbc political analyst who is herself a veteran political strategist. well, good evening and welcome to you both. don, i got a tough one to start with here. there were several no votes on the part of the democrats, so names like presley, talib, omar, aoc, i don t know if you ve been to aoc s district, the infrastructure there isn t perfect. not everything gleams. how is she going to go back to new york and say, nah, we re good with infrastructure? i voted no? because the people trust her. the people in her district trust her and know her enough to understand why she did it and did it because she didn t feel like the human infrastructure piece was there sufficient that she would be that she would be confident in going back and get full throated support.
infrastructure there is in perfect. not everything gleams. how is she going to go back to new york and say, noah, we are good with infrastructure i voted no? because the people in her district trust her, and know her enough to understand why she did it, and she did it because she didn t feel like the human infrastructure piece was there, significant i know if that should be confident to give a full-throated support to this. she also do this because she s an astute political operative, and she understood that the votes would be here without her. aoc, younger she, is is equally savvy, and understands that if the vote was needed to pass this infrastructure bill, she would have been on the east side. so what she did was a statement vote to show that she wants the democratic party to go further left, to not assuage to the moderates in the house, and the republicans, i inc. continue to edge right word, she feels like
in 2019 and the climate portion of the bill is so essential because who will get hurt first by climate change when the water levels rise and floods and fires intensify? indigenous people, people of color. now, the bill just has to pass. that s it. and it might have been dead in its tracks if progressives hadn t had folded and voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill yesterday. congresswoman corey bush made it clear on this show last night saying congress would not truly represent the american people, all of the american people if they voted only for infrastructure. if we re only talking about the bipartisan infrastructure package, it will set up white men. will some people of color get help? yeah. we re basically setting up white men, we re leaving out immigrants, black women, brown women, so many others part of the human infrastructure piece and i won t do it.