cooked: survival by zip code transcript

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Public health departments in Boston, and New York City, and with 200+ staff at the Cook County Department of Public Health (Chicago), City and County Directors of Racial Equity and Resilience offices in Milwaukee, New York City, Chicago, and Boston, Disaster preparedness and emergency management officials in Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Madison, the Bay Area, and New York City, Environmental justice and grassroots activists and community-based anchor institutions in Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Washington DC, and Wilmington, July 18: Porter Sanford III Performing Arts & Community Center, Decatur, GA, June 5: First Unitarian Congregational Society, January 20: UC Davis Growing as a Community Racism is a Public Health Crisis webinar, October 21: University of Michigan Community Scholars Program, September 21: GASP, whose mission is to advance environmental justice in the greater Birmingham area. MPH, F.A.C.P. Click here to watch. Simeon also edited the documentaryVessel, about the Dutch abortion activist Rebecca Gomperts and her organization Women on Waves. Time Periods: Post-Civil Rights Era: 1975 - 2000 Helfand focuses on Chicagos heat wave to look at how a weeklong tragedy is really a story about the slow-motion disaster caused by race and class inequality. No, $1, $1.1200:00:58,002 --> 00:01:00,997I'm afraid you getlucky to get it for $1.1300:01:00,998 --> 00:01:04,081(slow, somber music)1400:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,439[Announcer] LowerManhattan, Staten Island,1500:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,109for the last place youhave to leave, mandatory.1600:01:33,110 --> 00:01:35,369[Judith] Personally,I'd never really had to grapple1700:01:35,370 --> 00:01:36,913with disaster preparedness.1800:01:38,150 --> 00:01:39,809That is until Hurricane Sandy1900:01:39,810 --> 00:01:41,949was heading towardsmy home town.2000:01:41,950 --> 00:01:44,072And are you readyfor this hurricane?2100:01:44,073 --> 00:01:46,299I got my batteries,I got my flashlights,2200:01:46,300 --> 00:01:47,795I got my candles, I'm good.2300:01:47,819 --> 00:01:49,463All right, did you fillyour bathtub up?2400:01:49,487 --> 00:01:50,529That I didn't do, no.2500:01:50,542 --> 00:01:52,758Do you know why we're supposeto fill our bathtubs up?2600:01:52,782 --> 00:01:54,564- No, I don't, never did.- I don't either.2700:01:56,070 --> 00:01:57,399If ever there was a moment2800:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,369for an emergency plan anda well-packed to-go kit,2900:02:00,370 --> 00:02:03,179this was it,but I didn't have either.3000:02:03,180 --> 00:02:06,479So, I relied on my ability to go3100:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,016to my family inWestchester County.3200:02:08,040 --> 00:02:08,959Mom.3300:02:08,983 --> 00:02:11,67418 safe miles fromthe eye of the storm,3400:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,633where last minute preparednessshopping started early.3500:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,339I just got luckyon the generator.3600:02:20,340 --> 00:02:22,769I became number 99out of a hundred.3700:02:22,770 --> 00:02:24,587There's no more generators.My name was on3800:02:24,611 --> 00:02:26,321the list, that's howI ended up with them.3900:02:26,345 --> 00:02:27,960I was here this morning at 5:30.4000:02:27,984 --> 00:02:30,129- What time were you there?- I was there at seven.4100:02:30,153 --> 00:02:31,029What were you doing?4200:02:31,043 --> 00:02:32,983And that's how Icame to find out that4300:02:33,007 --> 00:02:34,969my big brother Alex,a computer engineer4400:02:34,970 --> 00:02:39,858and competitive sailor, wasalso a closet disaster master.4500:02:39,859 --> 00:02:41,577The reason you haveto have a generator4600:02:41,601 --> 00:02:42,949is so you can run the sump pump.4700:02:42,950 --> 00:02:44,591Without thatyou're, you might as4800:02:44,615 --> 00:02:46,229well just kissyour house goodbye.4900:02:46,230 --> 00:02:47,679[Judith] How do you run it?5000:02:47,680 --> 00:02:48,512On gas.5100:02:48,513 --> 00:02:50,595- [Judith] How much do you have?- I'll show you.5200:02:50,596 --> 00:02:54,109We have 10, 20,we have 25 gallons.5300:02:54,110 --> 00:02:56,549This is for a drill,this is for the search light.5400:02:56,550 --> 00:02:58,259Ellen's phone, my cell phone.5500:02:58,260 --> 00:03:00,169We can chop ourselvesout of the house.5600:03:00,170 --> 00:03:01,670We can also dig ourselves out.5700:03:03,078 --> 00:03:04,919By the way,do you like our escape?5800:03:04,920 --> 00:03:06,209[Judith] Are you serious?5900:03:06,210 --> 00:03:07,699Are we allowed to come to you6000:03:07,700 --> 00:03:09,273if you have power and we don't?6100:03:09,297 --> 00:03:10,340We'll let you.6200:03:10,364 --> 00:03:11,420- OK.- But besides,6300:03:11,444 --> 00:03:13,422we could always come get you.That's why the boat.6400:03:13,446 --> 00:03:14,488- In the boat?- Sure.6500:03:14,493 --> 00:03:15,883You're gonna putmom in that boat?6600:03:15,884 --> 00:03:17,389[Alex] If we have to.6700:03:17,390 --> 00:03:18,455I'm not telling her that.6800:03:18,456 --> 00:03:20,293- Don't tell her.- It'll freak her out.6900:03:21,860 --> 00:03:26,369You would not believe yourson, he has a boat7000:03:26,370 --> 00:03:31,308in case we can't get out,he could come and get us.7100:03:31,309 --> 00:03:32,909(laughing)7200:03:32,910 --> 00:03:34,612He has a boat?7300:03:34,613 --> 00:03:37,089[Announcer] In the meantime,evacuations are really moving7400:03:37,090 --> 00:03:40,009[Judith] Whichfortunately, we didn't need.7500:03:40,010 --> 00:03:42,346[Announcer] More downedpower lines in Babylon, with7600:03:42,370 --> 00:03:44,509explosive results and waterpoured into the streets7700:03:44,510 --> 00:03:46,279of Great South Bay.7800:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,530[Judith] Electricitywas a different story.7900:03:49,990 --> 00:03:52,073Mom, the lights keepgoing on and off.8000:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,632- Mike, you OK?- [Mike] Are you OK?8100:03:57,633 --> 00:03:58,465- Yeah.- OK.8200:03:58,466 --> 00:03:59,939And Judy's with me, I'm fine.8300:03:59,940 --> 00:04:01,567And I have,I have everything I need.8400:04:01,591 --> 00:04:02,800- Good, all right.- Good, good.8500:04:02,824 --> 00:04:04,326All right,so that'll do us right now.8600:04:04,350 --> 00:04:05,768Yeah, that's all,what can we do? 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"57600:30:09,810 --> 00:30:13,239It's true, but it's farmore true for some areas57700:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,429than others,and that kind of language57800:30:15,430 --> 00:30:17,939just obscures what'shappening in the city.57900:30:17,940 --> 00:30:21,089It makes it impossiblefor us to understand58000:30:21,090 --> 00:30:22,229what happened here.58100:30:22,230 --> 00:30:25,189If this were a storyabout what cities can do58200:30:25,190 --> 00:30:29,479in an acute emergency toprevent heatwave deaths,58300:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,409it'd be an open and shut case.58400:30:31,410 --> 00:30:33,059But it's a much deeperstory than that.58500:30:33,060 --> 00:30:36,559It's a story about thesedeeper social fault lines58600:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,559that make some membersof a city vulnerable58700:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,819and keep others protectedand blissfully ignorant58800:30:42,820 --> 00:30:45,329about what's happeningto people who live58900:30:45,330 --> 00:30:47,131quite close to them.59000:30:47,132 --> 00:30:50,299(light digital music)59100:30:56,910 --> 00:30:59,349We want to make surethat all Chicagoans59200:30:59,350 --> 00:31:01,860take appropriateprecautions for dealing with59300:31:01,861 --> 00:31:04,711extreme heat and humidity.59400:31:04,712 --> 00:31:07,159(people chattering)59500:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,779[Judith] Ever since1995, when the temperatures59600:31:09,780 --> 00:31:13,819start to rise, the city rollsout its heat emergency plan,59700:31:13,820 --> 00:31:16,979which over the years hasbecome a model for other cities59800:31:16,980 --> 00:31:20,719also struggling to adaptto an ever-warming world.59900:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,659The plan includes amulti-million dollar60000:31:22,660 --> 00:31:26,479emergency command center,reverse-911 calls,60100:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,379and vigorous public messaging.60200:31:28,380 --> 00:31:31,239We really need eachand every neighbour,60300:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,099every single personon every single block,60400:31:34,100 --> 00:31:36,439you know wherethese seniors are.60500:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,479If you cannot reach out to them,would you please call 3-1-160600:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,189and give us their address,we will go and help them.60700:31:44,190 --> 00:31:47,603You could literally save alife, so thank you so much.60800:31:49,110 --> 00:31:51,710{\an8}[Judith] What do you thinkof the heat emergency plan?60900:31:52,666 --> 00:31:56,175{\an8}I don't know whatI think of that.61000:31:59,622 --> 00:32:00,840(laughing)61100:32:00,865 --> 00:32:03,989We could call it a povertyemergency plan instead61200:32:03,990 --> 00:32:07,433or a remedyingsocial evils plan,61300:32:08,306 --> 00:32:10,435I wouldn't mind those things61400:32:10,460 --> 00:32:14,283that got more to the rootcauses of the situation.61500:32:15,210 --> 00:32:18,989The underlying dynamic inthose same communities,61600:32:18,990 --> 00:32:20,959things like racism and poverty,61700:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,909which determined who would liveand die during the heatwave,61800:32:24,910 --> 00:32:27,213of course continue to exist now.61900:32:27,909 --> 00:32:29,827[Judith] Do you thinkthey're addressing that?62000:32:29,828 --> 00:32:33,849Do I think the city isaddressing the extreme poverty62100:32:33,850 --> 00:32:36,399in communities ofcolor in Chicago,62200:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,168is that what you're asking me?62300:32:38,169 --> 00:32:39,292(laughing)62400:32:40,372 --> 00:32:41,697Don't be ridiculous.62500:32:44,390 --> 00:32:47,557(children chattering)62600:32:52,330 --> 00:32:55,580(relaxed upbeat music)62700:33:19,424 --> 00:33:22,321[Man] Gonna stayout of the water now.62800:33:22,322 --> 00:33:23,905Well that's good.62900:33:24,925 --> 00:33:26,386[Man] Please don't write me up.63000:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,328[Officer] Please back away.63100:33:31,329 --> 00:33:34,279Everybody back upoff each other.63200:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,665[Child] Why y'allwanna turn it off for?63300:33:36,666 --> 00:33:38,835(people chattering)63400:33:38,836 --> 00:33:40,795[Woman] It's low, it'slow, that's what it is.63500:33:45,605 --> 00:33:48,855(light, serious music)63600:33:55,956 --> 00:33:58,750[Judith] A decade afterthe heatwave, Eric Klinenberg63700:33:58,770 --> 00:34:01,290was still trying to get peopleto learn the core lesson63800:34:01,294 --> 00:34:02,667of that disaster.63900:34:03,310 --> 00:34:07,025{\an8}10 years ago, more than 700Chicagoans died in the heatwave.64000:34:07,050 --> 00:34:09,469{\an8}But you say that's notreally the entire story.64100:34:09,511 --> 00:34:12,825{\an8}What you wanted to knowwere the underlying social,64200:34:12,850 --> 00:34:14,175{\an8}human dimensions to this, right?64300:34:14,199 --> 00:34:15,867{\an8}That's right,we have this term, a natural64400:34:15,891 --> 00:34:17,370{\an8}disaster that we'reall familiar with.64500:34:17,394 --> 00:34:20,105{\an8}There's certainly nothingnatural about the way they died.64600:34:20,105 --> 00:34:23,076{\an8}What I'm more concerned aboutis our collective failure64700:34:23,100 --> 00:34:25,999{\an8}to address the everyday crisis,64800:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,399{\an8}the disaster in slowmotion if you will.64900:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,209{\an8}If we look too muchfor the scapegoat65000:34:30,210 --> 00:34:31,849{\an8}we'll misleadourselves into thinking65100:34:31,850 --> 00:34:33,784{\an8}we're not all kind ofaccountable in some way.65200:34:34,191 --> 00:34:36,809And my biggest concernnow is that if we refuse65300:34:36,810 --> 00:34:38,859to come to termswith this crisis,65400:34:38,860 --> 00:34:41,869we'll doom ourselvesto experience it again.65500:34:41,870 --> 00:34:43,469(deep, somber music)65600:34:43,470 --> 00:34:45,059[Judith] And we did.65700:34:45,060 --> 00:34:47,409Just six weeks afterthat interview,65800:34:47,410 --> 00:34:50,909the crisis we refused tocome to terms with in Chicago65900:34:50,910 --> 00:34:54,879repeated itself in New Orleansand all along the Gulf Coast66000:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,873while the whole country,and much of the world, watched.66100:35:00,346 --> 00:35:03,545{\an8}(slow, somber music)66200:35:03,570 --> 00:35:06,459{\an8}Like millions of others,I spent that Labor Day weekend66300:35:06,460 --> 00:35:09,789{\an8}glued to the television set,watching whole neighborhoods66400:35:09,790 --> 00:35:11,593{\an8}disappear under water.66500:35:15,060 --> 00:35:18,249One natural disaster,plus crumbling flood walls66600:35:18,250 --> 00:35:20,859in the city's mostvulnerable neighborhoods,66700:35:20,860 --> 00:35:24,687added up to one bignational revelation.66800:35:24,711 --> 00:35:26,091We're gonna talk about something66900:35:26,115 --> 00:35:27,349else before the show's over too,67000:35:27,350 --> 00:35:29,599and that's the bigelephant in the room,67100:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,729the race and economic classof most of the victims,67200:35:32,730 --> 00:35:35,689which the media hasn'tdiscussed much at all,67300:35:35,690 --> 00:35:37,003but we will a bit later.67400:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,559[Judith] What had seemed tome to be a one-time tragedy67500:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,623in Chicago, all at oncebecame an appalling trend.67600:35:48,050 --> 00:35:50,393Life and deathdetermined by zip code.67700:35:52,780 --> 00:35:55,439And this movie,which started out being about67800:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,599one specific heat disaster,turned into something else,67900:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,850something more complicatedand uncomfortable.68000:36:03,260 --> 00:36:06,803About the impact of generationsworth of racism and denial.68100:36:08,910 --> 00:36:13,019Denial that even after Katrina,was still going strong.68200:36:13,020 --> 00:36:15,869What's the guesstimate costof rebuilding those levies?68300:36:15,870 --> 00:36:20,479The bill is $2.9 billion,which will give us,68400:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,579send us a long way to repairingand upgrading the levies,68500:36:23,580 --> 00:36:25,569making them real categorythree protection,68600:36:25,570 --> 00:36:28,233which apparently they weren't,we learned the hard way.68700:36:29,499 --> 00:36:32,582(slow, somber music)68800:36:34,940 --> 00:36:37,289[Judith] Back in Chicago,where it was predicted68900:36:37,290 --> 00:36:41,199that by 2050 the weather wouldfeel more like Baton Rouge,69000:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,759Mayor Daley inaugurated hisofficial climate action plan,69100:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,519starting with a $2.5million project,69200:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,026built on top of city hall.69300:36:50,590 --> 00:36:53,089{\an8}So what you'll seebehind me here is actually69400:36:53,090 --> 00:36:54,699{\an8}the green roof on city hall.69500:36:54,700 --> 00:36:58,359{\an8}We're 12 stories above thecity, and as you can tell,69600:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,559{\an8}it's kinda like a prairie,you can hear the crickets,69700:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,109{\an8}you can see the butterflies,69800:37:02,110 --> 00:37:03,810{\an8}there are birdsthat live up here.69900:37:05,088 --> 00:37:07,839So what we've donehere, and I'll show you,70000:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,539we've created anurban heat island map.70100:37:10,540 --> 00:37:12,539We can see the hot spots70200:37:12,540 --> 00:37:14,869and then we planttrees in those areas.70300:37:14,870 --> 00:37:17,469'Cause one mature tree hasthe air conditioning effect70400:37:17,470 --> 00:37:20,889of 12 room-sizeair conditioners.70500:37:20,890 --> 00:37:23,479So these strategiesprovide a huge impact70600:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,069in actually realcooling of the city.70700:37:27,070 --> 00:37:30,237(light digital music)70800:37:40,980 --> 00:37:43,053We're pretty faraway from city hall.70900:37:46,650 --> 00:37:49,050{\an8}I don't know about anyrooftop gardens out here.71000:37:50,489 --> 00:37:53,656(light digital music)71100:37:57,810 --> 00:38:00,269This is the blockthat I lived on71200:38:00,270 --> 00:38:03,119from the time I wasone or two years old71300:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,713till I was about 14.71400:38:05,690 --> 00:38:08,273Used to be a churchhere that burned down.71500:38:09,518 --> 00:38:10,903Used to be a house here.71600:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,593This house was nextdoor to where we lived,71700:38:17,630 --> 00:38:19,623and we lived right here.71800:38:21,540 --> 00:38:24,687And this whole blockwas full of houses.71900:38:27,230 --> 00:38:30,859I can start to evensee the faces of people72000:38:30,860 --> 00:38:32,033that I grew up with.72100:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,029Summer day like today, whenI was growing up around here,72200:38:37,030 --> 00:38:39,939would be full ofpeople out and about.72300:38:39,940 --> 00:38:44,123Kids playing,adults coming to and from work.72400:38:50,410 --> 00:38:53,023There were all kinds ofthings up and down Halsted.72500:38:55,130 --> 00:38:57,529It was this vibrant place to be,72600:38:57,530 --> 00:38:59,253there were two movie theaters.72700:39:01,032 --> 00:39:03,959There was a Sears store,and in the basement,72800:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,210Hellmann's grocery store.72900:39:06,470 --> 00:39:08,939I used to get thelist from my mom,73000:39:08,940 --> 00:39:11,553and then I'd walk up hereand get whatever she wanted.73100:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,409Only downtown hadmore economic activity73200:39:17,410 --> 00:39:19,983than the 63rd andHalsted Street corridor.73300:39:21,740 --> 00:39:25,719It's just been anincredible 50 plus years73400:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,153of watching whathappens to a community.73500:39:35,370 --> 00:39:37,819If the heatwave happenedwhen I was growing up,73600:39:37,820 --> 00:39:40,373I think the outcome would'vebeen a lot different.73700:39:41,860 --> 00:39:45,109When it got really hot, peoplewould sleep on the back porch73800:39:45,110 --> 00:39:46,293or sleep in the park.73900:39:47,520 --> 00:39:48,993People felt much safer.74000:39:50,050 --> 00:39:51,809I mean,imagine going from feeling like74100:39:51,810 --> 00:39:53,239you can go sleep in the park,74200:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,040to feeling like you can'teven put a fan in your window.74300:40:02,030 --> 00:40:03,740Yeah, and some ofthis is privately owned74400:40:03,750 --> 00:40:08,750but a lot of this land isowned in fact by the city.74500:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,903Just acres of vacant land.74600:40:16,590 --> 00:40:18,013Acres of potential.74700:40:21,702 --> 00:40:24,952(gentle, solemn music)74800:40:46,570 --> 00:40:49,733Every day I cutbetween 25 to 30 lots.74900:40:50,720 --> 00:40:54,640Rats and mice and people canhide off in these bushes.75000:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,440{\an8}And this type ofneighbourhood over here,75100:40:58,430 --> 00:41:00,483{\an8}they can break outand get a hold of you.75200:41:04,180 --> 00:41:07,199The richer theneighbourhood, the less lots.75300:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,759Like in Pill Hill,there's no lots.75400:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,569Maybe two or three,but over here,75500:41:12,570 --> 00:41:14,533we got maybe about 2,000 lots.75600:41:15,770 --> 00:41:18,539[Judith] Since 2005,the city of Chicago75700:41:18,540 --> 00:41:21,019has spent well over $20 million75800:41:21,020 --> 00:41:23,943on maintaining overgrownand abandoned lots.75900:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,529I have one question.76000:41:28,530 --> 00:41:31,459What can you imagine themdoing with these empty lots?76100:41:31,460 --> 00:41:33,893Honestly,around my house they rebuild.76200:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,233Put Section 8s back up.76300:41:37,070 --> 00:41:38,613But that's the bestI could think of.76400:41:39,620 --> 00:41:41,719All right, but I got toget back to work, you all.76500:41:41,720 --> 00:41:42,820Y'all have a nice one.76600:41:47,822 --> 00:41:49,093I see you getting out that way.76700:41:49,118 --> 00:41:50,155(laughing)76800:41:52,307 --> 00:41:53,350All right.76900:42:02,332 --> 00:42:05,415(slow, somber music)77000:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,919[Judith] Orrin told methat much of the vacant land77100:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,179on the south and westsides of the city,77200:42:13,180 --> 00:42:15,759and the slow motiondisaster that's unfolding77300:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,423in those communities, can betraced back to another map.77400:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,729This one, created by theFederal Housing Administration77500:42:23,730 --> 00:42:24,883in 1940.77600:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,109The neighborhoods whereblack people had settled77700:42:28,110 --> 00:42:31,369were shaded in red,and declared ineligible77800:42:31,370 --> 00:42:34,019for federally-insured loans.77900:42:34,020 --> 00:42:36,349The only way peoplecould buy a home78000:42:36,350 --> 00:42:39,149was through a practicecalled contract buying,78100:42:39,150 --> 00:42:41,249which was essentiallya high risk,78200:42:41,250 --> 00:42:43,351and usurious installment plan.78300:42:43,352 --> 00:42:46,269(person whistling)78400:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,109[Orrin] Whitespeculators bought homes78500:42:49,110 --> 00:42:51,469and then resold themto black families78600:42:51,470 --> 00:42:53,959for two or threetimes their value.78700:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,149But the black familydidn't own the house78800:42:56,150 --> 00:42:57,823until they fully paid it off.78900:42:59,610 --> 00:43:02,539If I have you in a contract79000:43:02,540 --> 00:43:05,989and things go along and youget laid off from your job79100:43:05,990 --> 00:43:08,079or you miss a month,you could do it on one month,79200:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,209or miss two months,then you're outta that house,79300:43:10,210 --> 00:43:13,479I evict you, and then I canrecontract that same house79400:43:13,480 --> 00:43:14,523to another family.79500:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,719[Orrin] Most people hadto work two or three jobs79600:43:20,720 --> 00:43:21,903to make the payments.79700:43:23,370 --> 00:43:26,410Often, they couldn't affordto maintain the houses79800:43:27,652 --> 00:43:31,226so a lot of those structuresneeded to be torn down.79900:43:32,970 --> 00:43:35,259So when the federalgovernment made it illegal80000:43:35,260 --> 00:43:37,909to give mortgages inthe black communities,80100:43:37,910 --> 00:43:39,369it was a political decision80200:43:39,370 --> 00:43:41,327to disinvest fromthose communities.80300:43:42,410 --> 00:43:44,539You have banksmaking the decision,80400:43:44,540 --> 00:43:46,849your house isn't worthreplacing the windows,80500:43:46,850 --> 00:43:49,468so we're not gonna give you aloan to replace your windows.80600:43:52,420 --> 00:43:54,219We're not gonnagive anyone a loan80700:43:54,220 --> 00:43:56,923to buy your house from you,that's a disinvestment.80800:43:58,370 --> 00:44:00,269We're gonna close thesestores and move them.80900:44:00,270 --> 00:44:01,709And that disinvestment happened81000:44:01,710 --> 00:44:03,410with the changesin manufacturing.81100:44:04,930 --> 00:44:07,803You don't have steel workersin Englewood anymore.81200:44:09,630 --> 00:44:12,733You don't have people working atCampbell Soup factory anymore.81300:44:14,230 --> 00:44:16,529Then what happens is,your community sinks.81400:44:16,530 --> 00:44:17,709It doesn't happen overnight,81500:44:17,710 --> 00:44:22,333but it happens,certainly, at a pace.81600:44:27,060 --> 00:44:28,870[Jeremiah] Come on'round here, Cass.81700:44:28,871 --> 00:44:29,871Come on.81800:44:32,903 --> 00:44:34,398[Colleen] All right, you ready?81900:44:34,399 --> 00:44:35,816[Child] Mm-hmm.82000:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,839[Judith] Colleen and JeremiahScott were not even born82100:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,589when the red lines were drawnaround their neighbourhood.82200:44:44,590 --> 00:44:46,803But the repercussionsare all around them.82300:44:49,875 --> 00:44:51,806{\an8}- This is the first one.- This is the first one.82400:44:51,830 --> 00:44:53,164{\an8}- Right here.- It's the first one.82500:44:53,188 --> 00:44:55,107{\an8}- That's the second one.- This is the second one.82600:44:55,131 --> 00:44:56,796{\an8}And then you can justcount 'em as you go.82700:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,592That's number three.82800:45:01,162 --> 00:45:05,029This is number four, and it'sright next to the school.82900:45:05,054 --> 00:45:07,229If my daughter wasto go to school here,83000:45:07,230 --> 00:45:09,922she would have to walk pastall these abandoned buildings.83100:45:09,923 --> 00:45:12,279- Just to get to school.- Just to get to the school.83200:45:13,675 --> 00:45:15,177- Wait a minute.- This one right here.83300:45:15,201 --> 00:45:16,486Now, did you see that?83400:45:16,510 --> 00:45:20,679This building righthere, come on now,83500:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,387a school surrounded byabandoned buildings?83600:45:25,437 --> 00:45:27,600That don't make no damn sense.83700:45:28,542 --> 00:45:31,625(slow, somber music)83800:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,783It's just you don't reallyeven think about it,83900:45:49,002 --> 00:45:52,759or really comprehend it I guess,84000:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,029until you have to explainit to somebody else.84100:45:56,030 --> 00:45:59,933Then it's like,it's just right in your face.84200:46:02,349 --> 00:46:05,141I was upset aboutthose right there.84300:46:05,159 --> 00:46:08,023Look at that, boarded up.84400:46:09,180 --> 00:46:11,939All, the school is surrounded.84500:46:11,940 --> 00:46:15,029What do you think about whenyou see abandoned property?84600:46:15,030 --> 00:46:18,253It's abandoned,forgot about, left out.84700:46:32,890 --> 00:46:35,419None of this is rocket science.84800:46:35,420 --> 00:46:39,729We all know what it takes tomake a healthy neighbourhood.84900:46:39,730 --> 00:46:42,359It doesn't require you tohave mansions on the street.85000:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,889It requires you to havethe grocery stores,85100:46:44,890 --> 00:46:47,259the coffee shops,the restaurants,85200:46:47,260 --> 00:46:49,509the beauty parlors,the barbershops.85300:46:49,510 --> 00:46:52,669These are all institutionsthat help make streets safe,85400:46:52,670 --> 00:46:54,839they provide places forpeople to go for help.85500:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,139They provide places,certainly in the wintertime85600:46:57,140 --> 00:46:59,899and summertime,for cooling and heating.85700:46:59,900 --> 00:47:02,983(slow, somber music)85800:47:10,130 --> 00:47:15,156This map is in a sense,an exemplar or a model85900:47:15,180 --> 00:47:20,099of all of those issuescoming together in one place.86000:47:20,100 --> 00:47:23,553For example, communities thathave no supermarkets in them.86100:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,769If you map out vacantlots, violent crime rates,86200:47:28,770 --> 00:47:33,770was it diabetes, breastcancer, and on and on and on.86300:47:35,390 --> 00:47:40,099And so, map after map aftermap shows the distribution86400:47:40,100 --> 00:47:43,403of the highest mortality andmorbidity throughout the city.86500:47:46,530 --> 00:47:49,109These are thingshuman beings created.86600:47:49,110 --> 00:47:52,709Let me be really clear,racism is not a disaster,86700:47:52,710 --> 00:47:55,949it's something that humanbeings invented and created86800:47:55,950 --> 00:47:57,489and keep healthy.86900:47:57,490 --> 00:48:00,229Segregation is somethinghuman beings invented,87000:48:00,230 --> 00:48:02,953specific human beingsfor specific purposes.87100:48:03,820 --> 00:48:05,609The health inequities that exist87200:48:05,610 --> 00:48:07,860are not accidents,they're created by people.87300:48:11,590 --> 00:48:14,409[Judith] So the slowmotion disaster in Chicago87400:48:14,410 --> 00:48:17,249was the direct resultof public policies87500:48:17,250 --> 00:48:21,573that effectively divided thecity into haves and have nots.87600:48:22,670 --> 00:48:26,349And it was precisely theselife and death inequalities87700:48:26,350 --> 00:48:29,869that motivated Dr. Whitmanto step down from his post87800:48:29,870 --> 00:48:32,789as the city's chiefepidemiologist,87900:48:32,790 --> 00:48:35,529to lead the SinaiUrban Health Institute.88000:48:35,530 --> 00:48:38,853His goal, to close thehealth disparity gap.88100:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,219We've done study afterstudy and published it88200:48:43,220 --> 00:48:45,409in all of our mostprestigious journals,88300:48:45,410 --> 00:48:50,099showing not only that blackpeople and other poor people88400:48:50,100 --> 00:48:53,249have much worse health,but in fact that the differences88500:48:53,250 --> 00:48:56,379in health and measures ofhealth are growing worse88600:48:56,380 --> 00:48:59,019everywhere we look in Chicago.88700:48:59,020 --> 00:49:01,087And, the reason that'shappening is because88800:49:01,111 --> 00:49:03,280the rich are getting richer,the poor are getting poorer.88900:49:03,300 --> 00:49:05,079And the poor are notonly getting poorer,89000:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,889but they're gettingsicker as well.89100:49:07,890 --> 00:49:11,170Life expectancy in the loop,where we're sitting now,89200:49:11,580 --> 00:49:14,709{\an8}is 81 years,and for black communities89300:49:14,734 --> 00:49:17,326{\an8}throughout Chicagoit was 65 years.89400:49:17,649 --> 00:49:21,16316 years differencein life expectancy89500:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,399and you could walk fromone community to the other.89600:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,809One of the strongestcorrelates of bad health89700:49:26,810 --> 00:49:28,929for black people,it's been shown over and over89800:49:28,930 --> 00:49:32,119in the literature,is segregation.89900:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,669We are one of themost segregated cities90000:49:34,670 --> 00:49:35,773in the United States.90100:49:36,610 --> 00:49:40,369If black people in Chicagohad the same death rates90200:49:40,370 --> 00:49:44,649as white people,3,200 fewer black people90300:49:44,650 --> 00:49:47,369in just one yearwould have died.90400:49:47,370 --> 00:49:49,819What number is 3,200 like?90500:49:49,820 --> 00:49:54,307A very prominent number incurrency in this country.90600:49:54,331 --> 00:49:56,708[Woman] Number of people whodied at the World Trade Center.90700:49:56,750 --> 00:49:58,418Thank you very much,the number of people90800:49:58,442 --> 00:50:00,309who died on 9/11.90900:50:00,310 --> 00:50:04,569Now just think aboutour response to 9/11.91000:50:04,570 --> 00:50:08,419Literally billions,even trillions of dollars spent,91100:50:08,420 --> 00:50:12,379and yet, here's 3,000deaths in just one year.91200:50:12,380 --> 00:50:15,65910 years, that's 32,000 deaths,91300:50:15,660 --> 00:50:18,616just from racism inthe city of Chicago.91400:50:18,617 --> 00:50:21,950(plane engines roaring)91500:50:36,122 --> 00:50:37,624[Judith] Watchingthe annual air show91600:50:37,625 --> 00:50:40,229along Chicago'smajestic skyline,91700:50:40,230 --> 00:50:42,369celebrating themilitary daredevils91800:50:42,370 --> 00:50:44,829who are poised to protect us,91900:50:44,830 --> 00:50:47,269I couldn't help butthink about the disparity92000:50:47,270 --> 00:50:48,773Dr.

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