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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
top line to what that work is, what it looks like. it s all about improving the lives of the most honorable children. but we know that children live within the context of their families. families must support, them communities must be equitable places for families to live and thrive and 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, after. i would love for you to explain to me what a healing circle, whether it, is what is it look like. you have conducted them. what does it look like in a healing circle? first we come to recognize the layers that sit within us and they have to consider the reflecting on and then doing. with things that we learned along this? that we learn from our ancestors. we are here because of the sacrifices that they made and how they contributed to our presence today here and one of the things that they left for us was this tradition of gatherin
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
Has some work to do. but that safety of first recognizing, who are, we who do i come from? who do i belong to? what are the things that i inherit that are painful? what gifts do i carry? and how do i transform that for the benefit of others? that is, in essence, what happens, through targeted questions and reflective practice. and these are relatively small gatherings of people. how do you think about scaling something like that or scaling conversations like that, like he went through when you were mayor here around some of the confederate monuments? we actually did it with the help of la june montgomery tabron and kellogg. to those comments earlier you think about folks in this with so long of us and is minnijean sitting there, i was just a little girl not too long ago, and you are looking at the descendants of plessy versus ferguson. it happened right there, listen 300 yards from a. so when people say it was a long time ago, it was like