Title:Angela Glover Blackwell | NPC18 Closing Keynote
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قسمتی از متن فیلم: This afternoon speaker is going to speak on an important subject that resonates with myself APA and all planners that that of advancing economic and social equity Angela Glover Blackwell started policyLink in 1999 and serves as its CEO under her leadership policyLink uses public policy to improve access and opportunity for all
Low-income people and communities of color particularly in the areas of health housing transportation and infrastructure huh that lines rather well with what we’re working on here at APA Glover Blackwell previously served as the senior vice president at the Rockefeller Foundation where she oversaw the Foundation’s domestic and cultural divisions she’s
The co-author of uncommon ground race in America’s future ladies and gentlemen it really is my pleasure to welcome Angela Glover Blackwell [Applause] hello thank you Well it is my pleasure to be here I spent a little time looking over your program and was really so pleased to see how much of it focused on issues of equity and inclusion I want to talk to you about some things that you know challenge you a little bit perhaps about
Things you don’t know and help you to have some tools that you can take home to be able to really become a champion for advancing racial equity in your community in your work whatever it is that you’re doing you probably heard that the mission of policy link is to
Advance racial and economic equity by lifting up what works when we think about these issues of racial equity we start off thinking about things that you know for sure you know about the inequities in this country you know that the wealth of people who are white the
Median wealth of the white household is 13 times that of a black household 10 times that of Latino you know that unemployment is a constant problem in black and Latino communities the unemployment rate in the black community is consistently more than twice that in the white community so that even as
We’re getting close to and some would say well within full employment in the right community the unemployment rates in the black community would be startling if they were national we would be very worried and yet that just persists we know that people of color in this country are more likely to be
Exposed to toxins where they live we know that transportation is a huge problem people who are Latino african-american but through those communities sometimes you find 20-25 percent of people do not have access to a car totally dependent on public transit that is often inadequate and when we make huge investments in public
Transportation we often aren’t thinking about what the people who use it most actually mean we know that it is a scary was in this country that in black communities it is often impossible to find fresh fruits and vegetables that are sold in communities because of the absence of grocery stores and other
Places to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables we know that when people who are black and Latino go to the doctor and the doctor says but you really need to do is exercise but often when they return home the streets are not safe the parks are not usable if there are any
Parks at all we also know the people who are black in this nation even if they are not poor recent researches underscored this are more likely to live in communities where the majority of people are large proportions of the people are poor we were actually at a
Point where we know that where you live in America is a proxy for opportunity you tell me what your zip code is and I can tell you way too much about you including how long you are likely to live and so in that context we are faced
With a dilemma why is it that with all of these disparities we are not energized about making sure that we’re doing something about it because the truth of the matter is we also know what works we know what works we are quite certain because we have
Proven it again and again but one of the things that makes a tremendous difference is for people to have access to good jobs that pay family-supporting wages that they can access because they live near those jobs or because there’s a public transit system that can connect
Them with those jobs we know that people who have higher education and higher training are more likely to be able to engage we understand that even if you have education and you are black you are not able to achieve at the same levels in terms of income and promotion those
People who are white because of racism institutionalized race some structural racism and that we need to get rid of all of those racism so that people can actually get the full benefit of their education we know that if we want people to reach their full potential we have to remove barriers
Removing institutionalized racism is one of those barriers but there are remnants of this institutionalized racism like this disproportionate incarceration of black men growing incarceration of black women growing incarceration of Native Americans and Latinos we have reached crisis proportions with black men so we know that being having a criminal record
Is a barrier to employment and participation we need to remove those barriers we need to stop this incarceration but we also need to make sure that people who have been incarcerated when they return to communities that they are welcome that they can participate in the democratic
Process and vote that they can live in housing in neighborhoods where their families are if that is what they choose to do so that they can get jobs asking people to disclose that they have a criminal record before they even looked at for a job it’s a huge barrier we have
To remove those barriers but we also have to develop communities of opportunity you have all heard about the Harlem Children’s Zone and the amazing work that happened in Harlem focusing on a hundred blocks and making sure that every child had the opportunity to reach his or her full potential the results of
The Harlem Children’s Zone are extraordinary under the Obama administration something started to call Promise Neighborhoods to try to take those basic principles and apply them broadly in the Promise Neighborhoods program across this country has proven to be very successful we know that creating communities of opportunity works so with all of this
Knowledge why is it that the wonderful things that you have been talking about at this conference that we talked about if the policyLink conference in Chicago about ten days ago that you read about that you see on the public interest segments that are done on the PBS newshour that you read
About in magazines they’re always a one-off it’s always an exception it’s always something unusual that’s happening how could that be that we have these disparities that I talked about that we have this deep knowledge about the kinds of strategies that can make a difference that we have examples of
Things again and again and again and yet they remain a one-off examples like an Oakland California when after years and years of having an abandoned army base that was just vacant nothing happening there quite dormant after years of that happening they finally decided to make a logistics Center and because the
Community got engaged because city government was responsive the community and the city government of Oakland were able to come up with a plan to make sure that this massive investment if they were going to make would which was scheduled to produce about 3,000 jobs would also help with some of the
Disparities that I talked about and they were very deliberate about it the first thing that they did is a year before they broke ground they opened a job training center in the area of the city where unemployment was highest where people needed jobs most so people started getting trained but year before
A job was there that’s one thing they did the next thing they did is they said they would not use temporary employment agencies because you know so often when a community is doing something there aren’t going to be a lot of jobs a temp agency comes in brings a lot of people
From the outside they do the jobs and then they disappear so that they were actually creating jobs permanent jobs for people who would live there they made sure that at least a portion of the jobs would go to people who were hard to employ long-term unemployed people who
Were veterans people who have been formerly incarcerated deliberate about that all new apprenticeship programs would go to local residents and they would make a special effort to hire locally that kind thing makes a difference the Oakland army base is a wonderful example but there are examples like that in other
Places right here in New Orleans is a wonderful example I imagine you may have heard about it New Orleans under mayor Landrieu’s leadership has been very deliberate about doing something about violence in New Orleans particularly the murder rate that was so high in the in the black
Community but what he noticed once they started doing that work was that so many of the young men and older black men were unemployed 52% of all black men in the city of New Orleans were found to be unemployed in 2011 and so the mayor and his staff through a partnership with
Community and a deliberate strategy set out to make sure that the anchor institutions that the kinds of jobs that get produced by the hospitals and the hotels and the universities that they were conscious but one of the things they ought to be doing is addressing this unemployment problem they brought
Examples from all over the country policyLink actually helped to identify some of the examples from other places and with that deliberate strategy in just a couple of years they have been able to reduce that unemployment rate from 52 percent to 44 percent and I’m sure it will continue to go down an
Example of what we know using the principles and focusing on the issues that are there another example is in the twin cities that we know transportation is a key to opportunity good public transit can actually connect people the opportunity throughout the region with Minneapolis is getting ready to do the
Green Line that would be connecting a major thoroughfare that connects the Twin Cities at first there was very little thought about the communities that are being left behind there’s not a thought about what the disruption of the line would do to the of color and women entrepreneurs in the area very little
Thought to making sure the sis Yu Jin vestment would be able to connect people to opportunity even if communities that were left behind because of the advocacy of communities all of that was changed that stops we pretend that we’re not anticipated in the beginning they made a point to make
Sure that the businesses that were being disrupted would be compensated and able to benefit a wonderful result now this is just part of the thinking so they don’t just think about safety and usage they think about what’s the racial equity impact of transit decisions that example has been out there for some
Years but yet it does not stand it across the board in Florida a real effort has been made to make sure that 1/3 of old low-income and public housing is not placed in their toxins so that people are not exposed to pollutants that can be damaging to their health and
That issue that I talked about in terms of access to healthy food you all know about this but the the healthy food financing initiative a national initiative really grew out of the Pennsylvania fresh food financing initiative that made a conscious effort to put resources and communities that were underserved when they first started
Doing this of Pennsylvania in 2004 governor Rendell with 30 million dollars into an economic stimulus package to try to get more grocery stores and other things that would provide fresh food to underserved communities into that package and it was a tremendous success it got picked up under the Obama
Administration and the healthy food financing initiative came into being it’s provided more than a billion dollars over 100 efforts across the community and it’s really showing that we can solve this problem and this is an important problem not only is it important to get fresh fruits and vegetables in communities but getting
Grocery stores and underserved communities is key an anchor institution a place where people can get their first jobs a place to get fresh fruits and vegetables a reason to walk in communities lots of things come when you do that and yet this still remains pilot program still remain something
That is not reaching every community there’s still lots of communities that don’t have access and so all of these examples that I’ve just given a wonderful examples but you’ve got to ask yourself how could we have so much knowledge knowledge about the disparities knowledge about the principles that make a difference
Knowledge about examples that are working all over this country and still we are leaving people behind one reason is because as a nation we have failed to come to grips with this issue of race and racism when you think about it racism predates the founding of the nation itself but it was already
Embedded before the nation was even founded and we have continued to leave people behind to discriminate against people to place people in untenable positions in terms of trying to reach their full potential because of race now I have been saddened and grateful for some of the recent things that have
Happened that have entered the kitchens and the dining rooms and the workplaces of people who are unaware of the racism and the institutional racism that exists the thing that just happened at Starbucks had people talking all across this we all go to Starbucks we all go to Starbucks and many people particularly
People who were young and right think nothing of going into a Starbucks it’s a place to sit a place to get out of the noise of the street to talk on the phone a place to be able to study where maybe you’ll run into other people to go and
Sit in the Starbucks has become part of the culture unless you’re a black man and we see what that can do there right after that didn’t get as much attention but many of you probably heard about it two black men got to leave it whereas through the gym in New Jersey just for
Being black came in someone brought a guest with them asked to leave now when you say that just for being black people don’t believe it people don’t believe it these they must have been doing something there must have been a reason and I understand why white people react that
Way because that’s their reality but if you gave me I asked to leave a Starbucks it would have been because they were doing something if they had asked to leave a gym it would’ve been cost though they’ve been disruptive in some place some way if they got stopped by the
Police and it turned into an altercation it was because they were impolite and heaven forbid if they were killed by the police it would have been because they were doing something extremely dangerous so I understand why white people ask that question but you have to pay attention now and understand that what
You are seeing is real and it happens all the time I was sharing with someone just last week talking about what happens in the gym I was talking to a person who I often do riding with white woman and I was telling her how I have
To keep these things away from my all consciousness in order to do my work and to stay focused as years ago I remember being in New York City and walking down Madison Avenue breathing I was not planning to buy anything I was just walking down Madison Avenue and there
Were lots of shops I thought I would just go in I had time to kill one shop after another would not buzz me in it took years for me to return to Madison Avenue because once I realized what was happening the idea of strolling down Madison Avenue was no longer than
Pleasurable notion to even walk down the street was a reminder of how racism is so institutionalized when I think about this notion that when you live as a proxy for opportunity it reminds me of my own growing up I grew up in a segregated st. Louis Missouri in the
۱۹۵۰s and the early 60s when my family moved into the house that I grew up in we were the second black family to move into what had been a white working-class hood the first black family having moved in the day before I Austin have repeated
This that I know that I grew up in a powerful family because our presence caused all the white people to move out now even when they moved out and black people moved in the infrastructure stayed for a while there was a grocery store that were too in fact walking
Distance I remember walking with my mother and my brothers both we shop there were wonderful parks there was a public swimming pool there were parts that were close by there were parks that were a few blocks away there was a drugstore it didn’t take long for all of those things to
Disappear and so I know firsthand what it feels like and therefore I am glad that the media and Twitter and all of these things are causing people all across this country to begin to know firsthand that this exists but we have got to come to grips with this we have a
Deep racism in this country a lot of it is in people’s hearts but much of it is in the institutions it’s in the systems it is just there and it is operating every single day and because we have not taken on that racism that is one of the
Reasons we are not applying what we know to make a difference because for too many people who are decision-makers who are voters there is not this sense but there is a problem that needs to be corrected we have allowed ourselves to think the people are being left behind
Because of their own bad decisions the people are being left behind because they don’t have what it takes to be able to make it in this country the people are being left behind because it’s their fault and until we get out of that mindset that has been reinforced by
Media the stories we tell each other in the stories that we refuse to tell ourselves in each other we were not going to take what we know and apply it at the scale that we need it but when we start to make that connection one of
The things that we have to do will be done and that is we will make the moral commitment to do the right thing when we make the moral commitment to do the right thing we will be on the right path and that’s not the only reason that we
Should do the right thing that we are becoming a nation very rapidly in which the majority would be people of color this shows you the demographic change in the nation from 1980 to 2050 the gray line being people who are white and you will see what has happen from 19 from 80
To now and then you see that between 2040 and 2050 we become majority people of color this is very important the whether people like it or don’t like it it’s inevitable this is not a result of illegal immigration this is births this is the natural population shift that happens the median
Age for people who are Latino in this country that is the blue is 28 the median age for people who are white is 42 that one data point tells you all you need to know since 2012 the majority of all babies born in this country have been of color Latino Native American
Asian mixed african-american it’s been several years now that we have had a public school system in which the majority of the children are of color by the end of 29 team that’s day after tomorrow the majority of all children in this nation 18 and under would be of color by 2030
The majority of the young workforce will be of color about 2040 for the majority of all people living in this country will be of color now when we think about this one thing that is pretty obvious is that what happens to people of color will determine the fate of the nation
When you think about one of the things that has made this country really strong and really stand out on the global stage is its vast and stable middle class that vast and stable middle class has been absolutely responsible for so much of what you think about when you think
About the things that have made this an attractive place where people think of homeownership when they look at the suburban communities when they think of the school systems all the way from elementary schools through higher education when they think of the entrepreneurial spirit that has been so
Present we may think of the inventions and the leadership all of those things are be related to this vast and stable middle class if people of color don’t become the middle class there be no middle class there be no middle class but when you think about people who are
In the baby boom years and they’re thinking of retiring and the retirements that they’re going to have based on the equity in their homes thinking about those issues who’s gonna buy those homes people who are having children people who are trying to get in their schools people who are still in the ascendancy
In terms of the plan and that’s people of color that’s gonna be very important if democracy is going to continue to thrive it’s going to be dependent on people who are going to be the future but fate of the nation is dependent on what happens to the people who are going
To be the future so when we think about it in addition to the Marlin narrative it has also become a national imperative that we do something to make sure that everybody can participate prosper and reach their full potential that’s what equity is and this country is very dependent on it and there’s
Another reason the other reason that we need to apply what it is that we’ve learned is because one of the things that is characterizing this moment that is very troublesome is toxic inequality there was years ago that we started talking about inequality and people talked about the 99% and everybody
Thought that would just go away that was a fad the 99% discussion went away but inequality did not we’ve understood more about inequality in the years since 2010-2011 we understand that inequality has become toxic Halloween out the middle class baking in poverty completely stalling economic mobility
One of the things we know globally from a study done by the International Monetary Fund is that for every 10% decrease in inequality looking at a hundred countries there was a 50% lengthening in the period of growth my friend’s mom Laura pastor and Chris Benner have written a book are just
Growth in which they have looked at a hundred regions within the United States and they found the same thing reducing inequality extends growth what would happen in terms of growth and the economy if we actually were able to deal with racial disparities this map by the
Way shows that all the growth that is happening in this country is a result of people of color 92% of the growth that took place between 2010 and 2020 was because the people of color this is the growth from 2010 through 2040 but this is the slide I wanted to show you this
Slide shows that in 2014 if we have gotten rid of racial disparities in income that doesn’t mean everybody makes the same it means that the bell curve low income to high income there are no racial disparities the GDP in 2014 would have been two point four trillion dollars higher two point four trillion
Dollars higher you get rid of inequality and you actually are able to get to an equitable prosperous inclusive nation equity it turns out is also the superior growth model think about it I put that slide up so if you want to know more about that data you can go on the
National equity atlas and policy link and they’re just rings of data about the chip shifting demographics about the economic indicators of well-being and what the benefits are if we actually were able to focus on race discrimination and do something about it and get rid of it so here we are at a
Point where we finally need to come to grips with the racism that predates the founding of the nation and respond to the moral imperative to create a fully inclusive society that we need to be thinking about the nation and understand that the things that we hold dear are
Dependent on people being able to fully participate and the people who need to fully participate or overwhelmingly people of color we need to focus on that but we also need to understand that getting the equity agenda right has become an economic imperative that if we really want to continue to have a
Prosperous economy we need to invest in people who are going to be the future think about the entrepreneurial issue people who are Asian Latino and african-american are three times as likely to start small businesses as people who are white who do we need to lend capital to who do we need to
Connect your education and the best ideas out there really we need to encourage to be to follow their entrepreneurial spirit so that’s the economic system of the nation it remain vital everything it is that we’re thinking about is there and yet the wonderful examples that I cited remain one-off we continue to think
About we didn’t do to help minority communities we continue to ask are there any things now that we have gotten the project funded now that we know where we’re going to put it now that the investors are in place are there any things we can do to help the people who
Are being left by we need to be asking those questions on the front end we need to always be thinking about equitable development for all the reasons I just talked about and what this equitable development require it requires intentionality about dealing with the racial and the economic disparities in
Our communities so that we start with that intentionality it requires that we put together the issues focused on people with the issues focused on place so we don’t make transportation decisions without asking who needs to be connected to regional opportunity where did they live what do they need we need
To really make sure that we’re putting the people and the place issues together we need to ask what are the disparities in our community are the white rural people in the community who are being left behind or their native american people or Native Nations that are being left behind or their inner-city
Communities where black and Latino people are being left behind we need to ask these questions about what are the disparities that make sure that our investments and our building and our planning are consciously reducing those disparities and everything that I’ve talked about the deepest knowledge about
This is with the people who live in communities being in partnership with them making sure that their voices that their wisdom that their knowledge is actually guiding those are the things the development that will move us along now I’ve given you lots of reasons I
Want to give you another one is if you need another one because you you’re convinced aren’t you but here is another reason if we focus on equity just and fair inclusion into a society which all can participate prosper and reach their full potential if we focus on equity we must take into
Account everything that I’ve said and apply the best that we know but the benefits of focusing on those who are most vulnerable will actually reach us all and I call that the curb cut effect when I mentioned I’m sure planners more than many audiences as I talked to about
The curb cut effect know exactly what I’m talking about those cutouts in the curb that are there because of the advocacy of people with disabilities people in wheelchairs because even as they were able to gain rights they couldn’t realize those rights if they couldn’t maneuver around the communities
Of which they live and so through their advocacy starting in Berkeley but it’s spread across the country we now have thousands and thousands and thousands of curb cuts in communities all across this nation how many times have you been pushing a stroller and been so happy you
Didn’t have to pick that contraption up to go from corner to corner how many times like me if you’ve been pulling one of those roly’s and made by train because you didn’t have to break your stride how many times have you had your shoulders go down when you’re a new bike
Rider aged six seven traversing the community sidewalk to sidewalk because of those curb cuts how many times workers had their burden lightened whether they were pulling carts of pushing wagons because of those curb cuts it is a classic example of when you solve a problem for the most vulnerable
With specificity and authenticity you solve problems for everybody let me give you some other examples here’s another one that has to do with the streets bike lanes bike lanes are there after years and years of years of people lamenting the fact that people on bikes were constantly victims of automobile
Accidents with automobiles they started installing bike lanes and it’s been proven again and again that not only do those bike lanes save the lives and injury to people on bicycles but they improve safety in general they organize traffic again and again and again we have seen that seatbelts seatbelts
Started for advocacy to protect the lives of children but how many people have had their lives saved the numbers are in the hundreds of thousands because of seat belts when you start by focusing on the most vulnerable with specificity you come up with strategies that benefit
Us all not smoking you know how that started through the advocacy of flight attendants now I remember I don’t know how many of you do when I remember when winning you could smoke anyplace and how miserable it was to fly somebody next to you might be smoking then they had the
Bright idea to create a smoking section which was a real joke wasn’t it and it certainly didn’t do anything for the flight attendants and then the flight attendants hooked up this an advocate advocate for consumer advocate and they were able eventually to get smoking stopped on airplanes and that started
The movement of no smoking in public places how many lives has that saved again again and again you start with the most vulnerable you do it with authenticity and specificity it benefits everybody there would be gold standard of the curb cut effect is the GI Bill and I say
Would be gold standard because the GI Bill was implemented in a discriminatory fashion it wasn’t that it didn’t include black people they included them but they left it up to local communities to decide if and how to disperse the funds so we know what happened we know what happened black people suffered
Tremendously in terms of not being able to take advantage of it but it is no exaggeration to say that the GI Bill made the white middle class in nineteen for for when GI 16 million of them were returning there was a conversation about the fact that a few of them are going to
Have difficulty getting integrated back into society the guess was that it would be about a hundred thousand who would need some special attention it turned out that eight million of the 16 million returning GIS took advantage of the educational component and many more took advantage of the mortgage assistance we
Have had presidents senators professors lawyers doctors Nobel laureates all of whom because of the GI Bill the GI Bill and the mortgage assistance allowed for the suburbanization of America think of the jobs on the infrastructure and the housing and all that took place that’s right America moved to the suburbs on
The GI Bill the GI Bill allowed for the development of the community college system that barely existed before it came into in place the GI Bill designed to help a tiny minority of vulnerable returning veterans turned out to be just what the nation needed the curb cut effect here’s
Another another example of the curb cut effect the when you think about the issues of public transit prob’ly talk about that a couple of times in this speech sixty percent of those who use public transit are people of color the when we develop public transit systems that really connect people to
The region the employers benefit the small businesses benefit the region’s benefit we connects the whole thing this is just extraordinary and what happens when we don’t respond to those who are most vulnerable I’ll tell you what happens the opioid crisis that we have right now that we have had a discussion
In this nation recently about what’s happening with many white vulnerable working class families we work disappears when hope disappears drugs often are the only thing that people have to turn to work disappeared in the black community earlier on there’s a matter of fact you know people
Have often said that what happens in the poor black community in the vulnerable black community is the canary in the coal mine it was true with the housing crisis it was true with the economic term that we’ve seen in terms of jobs disappearing and when jobs disappeared
In the black community crack took over the EM Junius Wilson has written about what happens when work disappears crack took over it devastated the black community what was the response lock him up lock him up three strikes you’re out huge incarceration the crisis that we had now in terms of incarceration
Started with this reaction to drugs we tried those of us who are close to public health and think about Public Health we tried to say it was a health crisis but no one would listen and so we had a crack epidemic we responded with punitive punishment locking people up
The thing that caused that epidemic has crept into the larger society as inevitably will do we now have economic crisis and white working-class communities around this country we have an opioid crisis people are dying by the thousands at last we’re having a human response people are looking at the
Health aspects of it at last people are understanding you can’t deal with a problem like that with incarceration and judges courts are all looking at alternatives to incarceration the experience that we’re having that with this opioid crisis is what happens when we don’t focus on the most vulnerable
You’ve got this problem and it lands in your laps this absurd that this one has this could be avoided we have to take seriously we have to take seriously that the fate of the nation the future of the nation depends on people like you making this your life’s work not as an
Not as if we have a little extra money not as a late thought about what we could have done not as a philanthropic gesture with all the money that gets made from doing something else but it has to be front and center and when we do it that way everybody will benefit
The nation needs the solutions that low-income people of color need the same things that I’ve talked about in terms of good jobs and capabilities and removing barriers and building healthy communities it’s not just what people of color need is what all people need who are trying
To get a foothold we’re trying to move forward but when we think about what people of color need in order to fully participate it is not just a people of color response it will help everyone we have become vulnerable as a nation we’re a vulnerable nation and the fate of the
Nation is dependent on us getting it right this time I think that we’re a lucky nation because we get gifts as a nation even when we don’t deserve them what the what the nation’s want all across this world they want a young population Europe is really wringing its
Hands about its aging population the population here is still young because people of color have helped to make it young and can keep it young we’re a lucky nation what do economies need whatever they think about how to really be vibrant they need people who are energetic they need people who have got
Skin in the game who are part of the economy people who need a public education system that work people who need Safe Communities for their children we have what we need to be able to take advantage of all of these things the entrepreneurial spirit that I’ve talked
About families trying to figure out how to make communities that are really safe for raising children what could be more important in a shrinking globe than to be a global nation in this country with all of its diversity is a global nation connected to the of the world through language through
Kinship through custom so the work that I’m challenging you to do to make sure that every decision is actually guided with the intentionality of inclusion to make sure that every strategy pulls on the best that we know so that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel to join with
People all across this nation who are determined to get it right this time this is a crucial moment for America the issues that we have run away from the issues that we have refused to face our front and center in our faces we have a moment don’t lose it thank you [Applause] [Applause]
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