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
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
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
real consensus. some folks tarrytown because it s a symbol of white supremacist violence, an abstract form of violence, infrastructural racism that, they have to live there. i was talking to folks that were around when claiborne avenue was lined with big old oak trees and businesses and people playing and lovers holding hands and now it is and debris and crime. and so how do you put a community back together again when you know the same forces still exist? and when that money comes, 99. 99% the chances, it s not going to one of the things that has happened right now, and this is the first time it is happening 50 is one point you trillion dollars has been laid on the table to rebuild road roads and bridges and airports and waterways. and this is the first time that president biden s bill actually does this four billion dollars is dedicated to projects that will re-connect communities that are very similar to the one that is
and i remember reading in the newspaper that katrina did what no other force. they got black people out of the city. ran through the black community so that other communities can exploit and extract the resource and get them from the cities to the suburb but also to manage in that community. and certainly there is a concern. but i think one thing is interesting. you talk about, there is no real consensus. some folks tarrytown because it s a symbol of white supremacist violence, an abstract form of violence, infrastructural racism that, they have to live there. i was talking to folks that were around when claiborne avenue was lined with big old oak trees and businesses and people playing and lovers holding hands and now it is and debris and crime. and so how do you put a community back together again when you know the same forces still exist? and when that money comes, 99.99% the chances, it s not going to one of the things that has happened right now, and this is the first