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Narrows the wealth gap and how is the resonating with folks you have been reporting on? >> it's a big deal. one thing that tulsa illustrates well is the violent dispossession of black americans through violent means and then the redlining and all the ways you can generate wealth. so the idea of providing access to homes, that will certainly generate some degree of shrinkage. that means a lot for the folks here. where you're hearing more calls for reparations hooismt we have a specific injury the death toll, unable to recoup losses through insurance, so it sounds great from the ground, but unle...

Including marsha fudge, acting director of homeland security, who is here with us today. [ applause ] because today we're announcing two expanded efforts targeted towards black wealth creation that will also help the entire community. the first is moy administration has launched an aggressive effort to combat racial discrimination in housing including everything from redlining to the cruel fact had a home owned by a black family is too often appraised at a lower value of a similar home opened by a white family. and i might add, and i need help answering this, and i can't figure this one out, c...

Not just from this tulsa massacre in which black businesses were burned to the ground, homes were lost, you know, hundreds of residents fled this city, but also the decades of systemic racism and policies that followed in cities like tulsa. it's a broader agenda that addresses the effects of policies like redlining or urban renewal, which had a devastating effect on black communities like the ones in tulsa, and so it's an important part of the big picture. he's going to be talking about increasing the federal government's contracting with minority businesses, proposals that will have to go thr...

Are folks relating what is happening now to what happened then, the complicity in it all, the targeting, on a different scale, of course. >> reporter: without question. part of it is, take a big step back, and say, how can america heal and repair? people say reparations. so far, look at evanston, illinois. you try to find a community that has experienced a specific kind of injury, and they show the government was complicit. in oklahoma, white citizens were deputized by police, and they were bombed from the sky. and these weren't just one-offs, black folk were targeted with violence, and redlin...

Acknowledgment. after that comes understanding the true economic devastation that started with the enslavement of black people. then was perpetuated through the jim crow era. the economic harms. red lining. gentrification. all of those harms have to be accounted for in a way. there's hardly an appetite for it. they couldn't take the election of a black president. they couldn't take the election of a first black woman vice president. there is a visceral reaction. it is historic, systemic and problematic. >> the concern ner commission specifically, gelani, when you read that today, so many of th...