foundation. the national day of racial healing town hall, live from studio being new orleans. now joined now by chris hayes and join all right. good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event creating, 60 years ago by our sponsor of the w. e. case kellogg foundation. the specialties held every year on the day after the dr. martin luther king holiday. if you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. it is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an art experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by water neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. our colleague jermaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fella s the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a gathering place and trading hub of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. and so we want to a
studio being new orleans. here now is joy reid and chris hayes. [applause] all right. good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event created six years ago by our sponsor, the wk kellogg foundation. this special day is held every year the day at their dr. martin luther king holiday if you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. it is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an art experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by water neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. our colleague trymaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fellas brass band. fabulous. the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a gathering place and trading hub for people of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. and so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor
a safe space that we learn from our and chester s and we are here because of sacrifices that they have made and how they have contributed to our presence. and one of the things that they left for us was a tradition of gathering, seeing one another, and beginning to understand how i position myself in the conversations that we are in, in proximity to whiteness, and what do i have to do in order to reflect and uncover how until complicit and what work i can do to transform that complicity so that we can grow and heal together in these circles, do people does it ever turned into an argument? no, no. are people allowed to give their and pc thoughts about how they might be feeling about cultural change, et cetera? different communities have different facility of language. and today, we were talking about our communities, in the latinx community, that has not developed the facility of language. so yes, there may be instances where things are said that, for those of us t
trymaine, thank you for that. there is a lot of ways to foster healing. the first is that there is always accepting that there is work to do. one way to start that working through a healing circle, a powerful safe space in order to promote healing within a community. it is about getting to know your neighbors, asking questions, maybe even changing your mind. and joining us now is lejune montgomery lebran we also have hector sanchez flores national come padres network. and back with us, former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. people not familiar with the work the foundation is done on racial healing. what is your intro top line to what that work, is what it looks like? it s all about improving the lives of the most vulnerable
And back with us, former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. people not familiar with the work the foundation is done on racial healing. what is your intro top line to what that work, is what it looks like? it s all about improving the lives of the most vulnerable children but we know that children live within the context of their families and families must support them and committees must be equitable places for families to live and thrive. so our work is all about improving the lives of children and structural racism impairs the ability for children and families to thrive. i am curious, hector i would love to you to explain to me what healing zerkel is, what does it look like you have conducted them. what happens and healing circle? first, we come to recognize the layers that sit within us, that we have to consider reflecting on and in doing. what things have we learned along this process? and a healing circle it creates