Black folks are getting the covid19 virus at a. Higher rate than white folks. If you dont see how the killing of george floyd and the protests that followed are tied to reparations, you may need to go back and watch every single else of united shades of america. Then you will see we are way past time for reparations. Did she just get naked for beads . Its not even mardi gras. Most people come to new orleans for this. Weirdly colored drinks loaded with alcohol. This isnt the whole story of new orleans. It is a big, vibrant city with a large story to tell. Well talk about the parties. Were talking about reparations. You might want to mix yourself a stiff drink. As the race for 2020 starts to heat up, so is the debate over reparations for slavery. Its coming, everybody. Chris knows it reparations for africanamericans congress has the duty to do the right thing and a bunch of people who want to be president know it. Hive and well in every aspect time to start the National Full blown conversation about reparations. I agree. Of course, you do, bernie. Okay, reparations arent exactly coming yet but it looks like the United States is finally ready to have the discussion to talk about reparations. Meaning that the United States would pay back black folks for all the free labor it got during slavery and all the damage done to the black Community Every day since. And there is no other place to have that conversation than new orleans. Theres no city in the country that combines the best of americas blackness with the pain of managers racism and the pain of watching white folks exercising all their rights. Ive been coming to new orleans since i was a kid. I just vacationed with my family here. I know this city and its history. As much as its been identified as a party city, you can turn a corner and feel like youve walked smack dab into the antebellum south. Dont believe me . Just as i pulled into town, new orleans was hosting the reenactment of a slavery rebellion. At least i think it was a reenact many. They looked serious. It was in 1811 and i dont have to tell you, it was not successful. We all know slavery didnt end in 1811. The new york artist dread scott is the one who came one the idea. This is not a project about slavery. I dont want to dress up as a slave. Im dressing up as a liberated person. Im dressing up as person fighting for liberation. We came to pay homage to our an assess toward. As far as dressing up, it was that an easy decision to make . It was emotional. I feel like, what do i have to cry about . They sacrificed. So for me. The least i can do is pay them back. Singing the songs and chanting. How was the walk . Exhausting but we made it. They didnt give up, so why should i . I was just walking. And all of a sudden, look. My tear ducts started filling up. Whats going on . Ive marched all over the city. You see a lot of people here. Powerful stuff. I also had a white guy who i think was hired to help. Even at the rebellion reenactment, white people walk through the shot. Even rereenactment, white people hey, look. I really dont want to spend too much time on the reparations episode talking about slavery. If were going to talk about it, lets to go someone who has recently changed the conversation. This is Nicole Hannah jones. New york times Racial Justice reporter and creator of the 1619 project. The 1619 project is named after the year when the first 20 to 30 enslaved africans arrived in virginia to find out how much worse things could get. An unvarnished look into the history of slavery told through pictures, poems and much more. It is an amazing thing about this country. The past matters only in the way we want the past to matter. I say it all the time. You cant say that the declaration of independence Still Matters or the constitution Still Matters but 1619 doesnt. But slavery doesnt. Jim crow doesnt. We cant pick those parts of us that we think really define who we are as americans if theyre good. But ignore those things that also define us as americans if theyre bad. Thats the whole purpose of the 1619 project. Not to tell a history but to answer that most common question that black people get, slavery was a long time ago. Why dont you get over it . Thats the thing. From the moment the emancipation proclamation, the 13 amendment, america was working to get black folks as close to slavery as possible. We cant just do it flat out but we can put them in jail and take away their rights to vote and still have to pay them a living wage. Yes, you can learn to read but we can make your schools so bad so you wont learn at the same rate. Yeah. We can ensure your book doesnt have a teacher or a book. You have the right to read. Just not the ability to be taught to read. So many things in modern life can be traced back to slavery. We cannot be liberated from it if we dont acknowledge the role that it plays right now. To me, reparations has to be three pronged. Recommitment to strong enforcement of civil rights laws. You go get this economic payment but we know black people still face discrimination in every aspect of society. The housing margaret, the job market, criminal justice. And then i think there needs to be a really large investment of resources into the black communities that have had that wealth extracted and have been denied the ability to live like other americans. And i think anyone arguing for reparations that is not arguing for a cash payment is basically as racist. I like that. I thought you were going to soft pedal something. No. Its only when it comes the black folks that were so concerned how people will spin. If they can spend it responsibly. I say this jokingly. If i want to spent my recommend ragss on all gooxucci, thats m right. Were very suspicious of that. If you hurt me in my car you made me suffer money. And that may be way bigger than the actual money owed. We get that in everything except racism makes you illogical. So all of these concepts of law and morality that we understand, everywhere else, when it comes the black folks, oh, hell no, i dont get it. What will money do . Why should i have to pay you . I never owned slaves. You didnt have to. If the government, if you can inherit wealth, which we all understand, then you also inhear it debt. vo with tmobile for business, your business has an easy choice. The largest 5g network. Awardwinning customer satisfaction. Insanely great value. Choose. Any. Three. Ready when you are. Youve been avoiding. Like people. And pants. Ings but dont avoid taking care of your eyes, because were here to safely serve you with new procedures that exceed cdc guidelines and value your time. Visionworks. See the difference. We embody that deep rooted history within our city. 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Well, the governments lackluster response after katrina is still about reparations. And it was definitely lack luster. No matter what bush said about female. Brownie, youre doing a heck of a job. Even though the seventh ward which at the time was a black working class neighborhood, might not be the first area you think of when you think of katrina, it has a katrina story to tell. This is the activist who grew up here. Yeah. I deal with stuff like this. Youll forgive him if he doesnt seem all that impressed with me. Hes done it before with better company. Most notably, with spike lee in his film, when the levies broke. I like interviewing here because the new orleans you see now is not the new orleans i grew up in. If you look at this area here, prior to katrina, this whole area was a Public Housing development. All of this was public house. When the storm came, we got very little water. But they declared a national emergency. Came with guns and state police and theyre lining buss on the interstate as far as the eye can see. Told you to get on the bus. You didnt even know where you was going. So they put all the poor people out. And many of those people found out they wouldnt ever be able to go back home because the city tore down their Affordable Housing and did not rebuild it. It age right. What is this now . Thats private now. Did you feel live back there . You can live back there if you have money. The government said they wanted new orleans to be more anoon. And the way to do that was, to get rid of poor people. Now with 100,000 fewer black people live in the city than in 2000. People think katrina was a national disaster. Katrina was a national man made disaster. It was a natural event that men turned into a disaster. The seventh ward evacuation and the tearing down of the Public Housing in an area that barely got any water was an effort to push black people out of neighborhood is not the official line of local government. What . Today we made a unified decision to move forward every citizen has a right to return to the city. Unified . Im pretty sure a lot of new orleans go folk wouldnt describe it as unified. When they wanted to go hole, their home was gone and the city wouldnt build new ones. Unified. So you can see it through the response of katrina. To me, the link to slavery is so clear here. Its a good modern example of how ruthless people with money and power can be when it comes down to making sure they stay on top and we stay on the bottom. What is this . Thats my Elementary School i went to. Yeah, youre pointing at something totally empty. Whats that . Thats where i used to go to school. And now its nothing. Now its nothing. When was it torn down . After katrina. When you take down all that housing, no more kids to go here. Everything was anchored by Public Housing. So you want to change the scope of new orleans, the first thing is to get rid of poor people. So when they tore down Public Housing, they made the first step toward redefining the whole he essence of new orleans. If i was to give you the power to repair all this, whatever magic you need, the reparations wand, what would you do . I think the debt to black folk is so high. We would break america. They wrote out a check. Insufficient funds. Yeah. When we talk about the concepts of recommeparations, then we ha talk about how well go after reparations. It has to be more than us asking the congress. Us trying to go through the courts. You have to build a Peoples Movement thats so powerful, you shape the roots of america. People say they want you to be peaceful and nonviolent. I might be nonviolent but i age gonna be peaceful. You can forget about that. 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A hub for activism and a place to talk. There is a lot of angst, a lot of anger, a lot of hurt. Not just financial but a lot of folks, especially elders, that passed after the storm. People say, well, thats heart break. I really believe it was exacerbated by the situation. The lack of response. Were adjusting to new orleans. I see you over there listening. Ear hustling. Thats my spot. If you will step into this. All of this is affectinging, not just the physical body but the spiritual body. Thats why coming here matters. We have some of the most amazing conversations here. This is my other side. Okay. Kamau. How are you doing . Oh, thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. If anyone wants to join us at the table, what is your role here . You know what . I havent the foggiest idea. What is my role . Yeah, thats it. This is a classic black book store conversation. Fast moving. Dropping knowledge and pre tense. Whether you can keep up or not, believe me, it is all about reparations. Thats pretty much what every store like the is. This is a poor state, a slave state. Ive heard that said. It is a slave state. Not was a slave state. Yes. Very clear present tense. Look at the. At a situation, the gentryification. When people move in, they change the tax base so people cant faye new taxes so they have to leave their community that theyve been a part of for generations. And then people that i was so used to seeing in the streets, at the grocery store, where you been . And they say i couldnt afford my house anymore. Some neighborhoods are currently seeing up to 300 increases in property value. Many long time residents cant afford the taxes that come with this increase so theyre forced to sell and move. Just another way that lower income people get pushed out of neighborhoods theyve lived in for generations. So if i give you the magic reparation wand and you can wave it and make it all happen, what do you do in. Build my community more. I would love to have more mom and pop. It is like you want reparations to repair the black communities to where they were. Every black nablgd had its own down section with black owned business thats served the community. This is conversation version of a new orleans jazz jam session. People come and go, the conversation changes but the music keeps going. When black folk had communities and they were thriving, policies and programs were implemented so that was destroyed. So our come possibly of it has to include policies and procedures and equitable or fair treatment. In order to get tom, everybody has to sit at the table. Black, white, yellow, brown, woman, man is that a chair being pulled out . When you put that together, everybody there, black people, white people. Do we have to put the orange guy at the table . For me he has to be there. Thats why we have the space. So we can discuss that. I would invest toward eliminating the Current School system that has 100 Charter Schools. All the Public Schools are Charter Schools . Every last one of them and thats by design. Who lous Recovery School district, r. S. D. , was created after Hurricane Katrina and tasked across the state. Their solution, close down every Traditional Public School and replace them with public Charter Schools. Today, 100 of the new orleans Public School students to go Charter Schools and theyre often a long commute away from home. What in the name of john oliver is happening and the other weak know of not having neighborhood schools. Children get up at 5 30, 6 00 in the morning, to be at the bus stop to get to school that starts at 8 00. If the butt doesnt pick them up, the parent has to find a way to get them to school. If they dont, theyve