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 fellas 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 acknowledge, thank and honor the Indigenous People for hume thi
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 acknowledge, thank and honor the i
done the folks i ve talked to, asian american folks, of real visceral fear that something has changed or something feels more threatening in the atmosphere. how do you think about that moment right now, what it causes are and how we talk about it in ways that are honest and sort of bridge passed some of the clichés? yeah. thank you so much for reporting on the hate crime, i think that this is something that a lot of our community members are aware of in terms of the erasure of what continues to happen around ancient american struggles. i think we would be doing an injustice to all of our community struggles if we failed to connect the dots, back to the 1800s. this is not a new phenomenon, where we are living in a state of oppression. i think that for so long, because we are immersed in the narrative of mock minority mid, a lot of people think that asian americans communities at large of doing better than most. and i think that is such a harmful rhetoric that is invisible lies so m
narrative of mock minority mid, a lot of people think that asian americans communities at large of doing better than most. and i think that is such a harmful rhetoric that is invisible lies so much of the pain and depression that so many asian americans have been experiencing. not only on the streets, but systemically. whether it is a duck man black asian americans, there is a whole plethora of people fighting against oppression in different ways so i think it is an opportunity for us to broaden the scope of conversation and not just talk about the anti asian hate crimes that happened today but also more broadly, over the historical time period. in terms of how we have been oppressed in different ways and indifference fears. you know sharon, i want to bring you into this