At an event in Atlanta, Georgia, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) promoted Biden Administration policies to increase economic opportunity.
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00:00 >> Hello Atlanta!
00:10 I'm about to preach you we believe in call and response you have to do better than that.
00:15 Hello Atlanta Georgia!
00:20 Let's give it up for vice president Kamala Harris.
00:23 Thank you vice president for joining us to commemorate this historic and important investment in our community.
00:33 And thank you to my brother and partner Senator Ossoff and Congresswoman Williams for your cooperation and your leadership on this important project.
00:46 Let's be very clear today is a day of celebration.
00:51 It's a day of celebration because at last we start down the road of repairing and revitalizing and reconnecting neighborhoods in the heart of Atlanta.
01:07 Neighborhoods that have been historically black communities torn apart by highway construction.
01:17 Between 1955 and 1966 that's when they stopped collecting the data.
01:24 But between 1955 and 1966 some 1.2 million Americans displaced by this highway construction.
01:34 It went on until 1974 so we don't have all the numbers.
01:38 But 55% of them African Americans although we're in this 13% of the population they call it urban renewal the question is at whose expense.
01:48 And so this is about making it right.
01:53 This is about repairing the damage that was done.
01:58 This happened in Atlanta we centered on this project the Stitch.
02:03 Let's hear it for the Stitch!
02:04 I like that term by the way Stitch that makes me think about Grandpa's quilt.
02:13 That's good word that's good word for the soul.
02:16 But this happened in communities black communities all across our country.
02:20 The neighborhoods where I grew up Dallas and Manta Jordan there's an energy that went right through my neighborhood and I didn't know the history of that.
02:28 How it literally separated our communities and destroyed the entrepreneurial ecosystems that were there.
02:35 Separated the land but also separated the people.
02:39 And so this means a whole lot for all of us right down the street from Ebenezer Baptist Church.
02:46 Where I still serve as senior pastor just a few blocks away.
02:50 Many of my parishioners have long connections to this community that has been divided.
02:56 Many of their stories and their family stories are rooted in the displacement experience all of those years ago.
03:05 And so for many Georgians the Stitch is about bringing people back together.
03:13 It's about expanding opportunities to work and to live with dignity and righting historic wrongs to pass down a better world to our children.
03:26 My personal hero Ambassador Mayor Reverend Andrew Young is in the house.
03:32 Give him a round of applause.
03:35 [Applause]
03:39 But that was the work of the movement.
03:41 The movement was about the Stitch.
03:44 It was about repairing the damage.
03:46 It was about breaking through the barriers of segregation and ironically right along the heels of that movement while that movement was happening the land was being separated and the people were being divided.
03:57 And so that's the work that we continue to do.
03:59 I'm so grateful to play a role in making it a reality.
04:03 This is what delivering for Georgians looks like.
04:06 And it's just one more example, just one example of the Biden-Harris administration and all of us in Washington centering the people in the decisions that we're making.
04:20 That's how we got this historic funding for the Stitch through the Bob Morrison infrastructure bill.
04:28 And that's how we continue to stand up for people and center people time and time again.
04:34 That's how we capped insulin for seniors at no more than $35 an hour a day on the first of August.
04:40 That's how we invested more than seven, listen, seven billion, with a B, seven billion dollars in historically black colleges and universities.
04:50 That's how we canceled more than $150 billion in student debt for more than four million Americans.
05:00 And how we're pushing to do even more.
05:02 The Stitch, this historic federal investment, all of these deliverables represent the good that we can accomplish when we put politics aside and center the people.
05:14 I want to keep working with the president, with the vice president, and my fellow Georgian lawmakers to keep delivering these strong investments and make sure the work we're doing in Washington works for the people of this state.
05:28 Thank you once again for being here.
05:30 Thank you, Madam Vice President.
05:32 And let's keep pushing.
05:34 Keep the faith.
05:35 And keep it up.
05:36 [Applause]