(upbeat pop music)
(choir vocalizing) ♪ It's a crazy world that
spins round and round ♪ ♪ We're always pulled apart ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ It's a crazy world that spins
round and round and round ♪ ♪ Filled with lies and
then we never talk ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Hold that thought,
take a moment to listen ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Understand before you're understood ♪ ♪ Just be kind, take a moment to care ♪ ♪ When the world spins round and round ♪ ♪ Love will slow us down ♪ ♪ Together we can be so much more ♪ (choir singing in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a
little understanding ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate love, have a conversation ♪ ♪ So open your mind
and let the sun shine ♪ (choir singing in foreign language) (choir vocalizes) ♪ You say A, but they only hear B ♪ ♪ Stop scrolling that feed
and take a minute to breathe ♪ ♪ One goes left, the other goes right ♪ ♪ Why discriminate and then incriminate ♪ ♪ When we radicalize one another ♪ ♪ Then we demonize each other ♪ ♪ Reason is lost, prejudice reigns ♪ ♪ And a crazy world spins
round and round, yeah ♪ ♪ Hold the thought, take
a moment to listen ♪ (choir singing in foreign language) ♪ Understand before you're understood ♪ ♪ Just be kind, take a moment to care ♪ ♪ When the world spins round and round ♪ ♪ Love will slow us down ♪ ♪ Together we can be so much more ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a
little understanding ♪ (choir singing in foreign language) ♪ Liberate love, have a conversation ♪ ♪ So open your mind
and let the sun shine ♪ (choir singing in foreign language) (choir vocalizing) (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a
little understanding ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate love, have a conversation ♪ ♪ So open your mind a let the sun shine ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a
little understanding ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate love, have a conversation ♪ ♪ So open your mind
and let the sun shine ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a
little understanding ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate love, have a conversation ♪ ♪ So open your mind
and let the sun shine ♪ (choir vocalizes) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) - What an uplifting performance! Thank you to Favianna Rodriguez
and the Ndlovu Youth Choir for sharing your art
and your voices with us. My name is Soledad O'Brien, and it is my honor to be your host today. Welcome to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's sixth annual National
Day of Racial Healing. We renew our commitment
to this important work at the start of every year, and on the heels of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a reminder of our duty to
celebrate and to continue the legacy of action for equal
rights and justice for all. Reflecting on the past year, I'm reminded of an old
saying about progress: "It doesn't get any easier,
you just get better at it." From the enduring challenges of a virus that has disproportionately impacted our Black and Brown communities to the devastating biases that continue to produce
disparate outcomes everywhere, in our schools and neighborhoods,
in our courts and prisons, the fight for racial equity, certainly, hasn't gotten any easier and yet our hands have grown steadier and interconnected in this work. Our voices have grown louder
and clearer in their message. Members of our communities
have organized to take up space in calling for change and
making room for healing. They built coalitions
to strengthen movements and our communities. In 2021, a record number of
women and Black women CEOs made the Fortune 500, young activists led
charges for voting rights, climate justice and racial
justice on and offline. For the first time in
our country's history, Indigenous People's Day
was officially recognized by presidential proclamation, and after a year of increased violence and hate directed at their communities, Asian Americans made
history at the ballot box in cities across America. And there's much more work to be done to continue this progress. While we cannot physically
share the same space today, I'm inspired by all the
incredible organizers, activists, and community leaders
joining us in conversation, and as viewers from across the country. In bringing together the
diversity of our perspectives and learning from the wisdom
of our lived experiences, we can shape the future into
one that's brighter, better, and more just for the next generation. For more than eight years, as the first female and
African American president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, La June Montgomery Tabron has
been spearheading that work on behalf of children and
families in communities in need. From early childhood education to equitable employment opportunities, and community empowerment,
under La June's leadership, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has made systemic change possible. She believes that racial healing
is the foundation required to create the conditions for all families and children to thrive. It is with great gratitude
to La June and the foundation that I'm here today, and I'm looking forward
to the conversations and the work ahead. We'll be hearing from La June as well as our incredible performers and panelists momentarily. Throughout the event, we invite you all to visit DayOfRacialHealing.org,
to download our action kits and learn more about how to
get involved in this work. Don't forget to use the chatbox as well, and help us continue
the conversation online using the hashtag, #HowWeHeal. And now, here to open with
a land acknowledgement, please join me in welcoming Hip Hop Artist and Fancy Dancer, Supaman. (gentle music) (Christian speaking in foreign language) - Hello, my good relatives. My name is Christian Parrish
Takes the Gun, aka Supaman, I come from the Apsáalooke
Nation in Montana, or the Crow Nation, is the
mistranslation of our people. My Apsáalooke name is
Awe aakeen baa aachile, which means good fortune on mother earth. My clan is the Ashshitchite,
which is the Big Lodge clan. And it is my honor to
be joining you today. I wanna give thanks to all
the elders of my people, the Apsáalooke, past and present, for watching over this land where I am now in Southeastern Montana. Before we begin a process of healing, it's also customary for
us to uplift our medicines and start off in a prayerful way by smudging with the medicines
of sweet grass or cedar or whatever different medicines
that different tribes use to start off in a prayerful way. We uplift these gifts that
the Creator has given us. Some of these gifts we've inherited in the form of languages also. Stories, food, songs, or dances, the traditions of our people, which in themselves are a form of healing. They give us strength, remind us of the resilience of our roots, and inspire us to move forward in a world that tried to erase us. As we gather here today, it is essential that we ground ourselves in a
foundation of truth-telling, acknowledging the unseated
territory of Native peoples at events like this, is
a way of paying respect to the communities who, for generations, lived on and with the land we now occupy. The mountains, the rivers,
the plains, the prairies, the elements, trees, stone,
soil, they all tell a story. They tell the stories of the people whose, centuries of stewardship, nurtured the places we now call home. But they also bear the scars
of conflict and coercion that went into acquiring these lands, and are part of our history too. In reflecting on our past and learning from the stories it tells, we empower ourselves
with the wisdom necessary to do the work of justice
and reconciliation. I would now like to take a
moment to remember our relatives who have recently transitioned
because of the Coronavirus. Like many communities that have experienced systemic
oppression and exploitation, the Indigenous community
was hit especially hard by the effects of the pandemic. And as we remember those who
have transitioned during COVID, we must also name the other ongoing epidemic
afflicting our people, that continued and largely ignored disappearance of our Native people. We will not rest in our search for them or in our pursuit for justice. For them, and in solidarity
with the Murdered and Missing Indigenous People
Movement, and for all those in the First Nations
communities mourning today, we lift up their memories. Though we cannot recognize all the peoples who once lived in each of the locations represented at today's virtual gathering, all of us can do that
important work on our own. I encourage all of you to take a moment to look into the Indigenous
history of your area. Learn the names of the
people, their languages. Learn about their culture,
traditions, their practices. Seek out and support the work being done all
across the country today to repair the various harms
caused by the loss of land, and the conflict brought
upon Indigenous communities. We are all here because we
believe in the power of healing, because we believe that, together, we can create a more
just and equitable world for generations to come, A'ho. (gentle calming music) - Over the past five years,
we have come together, as individuals, communities,
and organizations, to acknowledge the values
we share as people. Together, we have worked to
restore our trust in each other, together, we have built
authentic relationships and inspire collective
action on how we heal from the effects of systemic racism. Last January, in the wake
of the violent insurrection that occurred on January 6th, hundreds of thousands of people joined us at this virtual event, and through more than 100 local events held across the nation. When we create safe
spaces, where truth-telling and uncomfortable
conversations can happen, we have hope that healing can happen. That is how we advance racial equity. We are so honored to be back together for this sixth annual
day to continue the work to create a more racially
equitable society. Racial healing is that work. Today, we begin to move
from conversation to action. You'll hear from an array of subject matter
experts and practitioners who will share their
insights and solutions on the themes of racial
healing and solidarity, and how we create a path forward
and achieve racial equity. There's a role for all of us to play. I've been so inspired by our
next generation of leaders, many of whom are watching us live today, because together you realize that this moment of racial reckoning doesn't have to be a moment, it can become a movement of solidarity, where we heal together and build a world that is not just a better
one, but an equitable one. I'm delighted to welcome
one of these young leaders, Connie Brownotter. Connie is a student leader
at Montana State University, and an Indigenous activist from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. What I love about Connie's leadership is that she starts from a place of love, mutual respect, and empathy. Connie has been with us before, and I'm excited to catch up with her. Before we get started, I want to know how you are feeling and managing
during these tough times. You have a lot of things going on with being an activist and a student. How are you doing? How are you healing now, both
spiritually and emotionally? - I'm still growing every single day. I feel like it kind of stemmed, though, from focusing on that individual healing, that individual spiritual
growth that I wanted for myself, and that emotional growth
that I wanted for myself. And I had to start with me,
I had to start internally, and just a lot of changing my
habits, changing my mentality, the way I think to myself
or think about myself. And I think I've been doing good. - I always feel like the
next generation of leaders are more politically, socially,
and culturally engaged than ever. I know you value and respect
your culture and traditions. I recall you saying before, that is hard to balance
your aspirations to lead, while also respecting
the world you walk in. How is an intergenerational
approach helpful to you in this work? And how can we make sure the voices of young people are heard? - As a young person, it is my responsibility to use my voice. It is my responsibility
to take up some space, and if someone invites
me to sit at the table, I will gladly take a seat. One of the things that
I like to consider a lot when I think of my work is how can we get perspectives
from different backgrounds? Not just from the youth, but
valuing the words, the wisdom, the knowledge of our elderly people, people who already know
what works right now and what doesn't work. And what fresh ideas can
we bring into the scene, and how can we address and
assess risks and changes? So the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has been working on a lot of
these issues for many years. What knowledge can you share
for those who want to continue and build upon this work in the future? - Thank you, Connie, for that question. Yes, we have been at this
for a very long time. I believe it's been our entire existence, but the most important thing
that I think we've learned and we value more than anything, is to make sure that the
authentic perspectives are those voices from the community. And we know that we must be
in service to those voices. I would like to hear
from you about the issues that are most important
to you and your community. What are the systems and
structures that need change? How can we work to ensure voices
from Indigenous communities are centered as well as
leading the conversations aligned to these issues? - I do wanna acknowledge that Indigenous people in this country face many unique barriers
that are a direct result of this nation's history of
colonization and violence. I feel like addressing
that reality of our history is that first step to
that healing process. So when you meet a Native
person, like myself, and you ask me, "How does it impact you
on a personal level?" I can tell you exactly why
I am the way that I am, the way that I think,
the way I was raised, and it's tied to the
history of this nation and colonization, and violence, and power issues, and inequities. But through my story, you'll see traces of that
history there, for sure, but you'll also see the ways in which I've overcome
a lot of those challenges, the ways I've been supported in growing from these hardships, the ways I've exhibited
resilience in my daily life, the ways that I uplift others, and the way that I am a
positive force of change. And I don't feel like my
history has to be my future. - I'm so happy to have
you here with us today, and to just feel your energy, even though we can't be
in the same room together. Where do you get your inspiration from? What inspires you and keeps
you motivated to do this work? - I draw my energy, my power from like reflecting on my culture, my heritage, my background,
the way I was raised, the values that were instilled in my day-to-day life as a child, to being a young adult now. I feel like I have an obligation to honor the legacy that
my ancestors gave to me. And I'm here, we're here as Native people, we're living, we're thriving,
we're not going anywhere, and we have voices, voices that matter, voices that carry weight. And I feel like there's
change within our reach within this generation,
and I see my community and I see my peers, I see
myself, as part of the solution to a lot of these issues
that we face, collectively. - I'm just so impressed
by your leadership. Definitely, definitely a model
for what truth, storytelling, and healing is all about. So thank you, I've been
honored to speak with you. (gentle calming music) (ocean water sloshing) - Welcome to the Shores of Awawamalu, the place where the sun first
hits on the island of Oahu. We're here to honor our
ancestors, our Indigenous people, and the Native Hawaiians of Hawaii. This morning's Oli, or blessing, speaks about the metaphor of a fog lifting and a beautiful lehua blossom arriving and showing its presence. When you receive this Oli or this chant, please think about someone that
you haven't seen in awhile, someone that you may
have not even talked to during the COVID months. Imagine them arising from
that fog and from that mist. The things that we put
out into the universe really do manifest, and so
please welcome this Oli Aloha imagining that racial
healing will be lifted, that we will become the people
that we see beyond that. Mahalo for all of you to
joining in this morning. Please think about your loved ones, please think about each other, as we journey toward racial healing. (Dr. Diane chanting in Hawaiian) Aloha, please enjoy this wonderful day. (gentle calming music) - Thank you, Dr. Paloma,
for your welcome chant, and thank you all for
joining us here today. My name is Julissa Calderon. I am an actress, I am an
activist, I am an Afro Latina, and I am extremely honored to be here today with
some incredible people to moderate this discussion about racial healing and solidarity. Growing up in south Florida, I spent my childhood
embracing my Latina heritage. My Blackness was not something that I
ever really acknowledged until I was older and understood. I wasn't considered
Black in my neighborhood because I spoke Spanish. There is still so much
internalized racism and colorism that we need to unlearn, but
now I embrace that identity because it allows other
people to understand it. I am proud to be a Latina, I
am proud of my African roots, and I am proud to be an example for all the other Afro Latina
girls across the country. Now, I told you that I was
here with some amazing people, and I want to introduce
someone who is an expert in what I've been talking
about, in advocacy and building solidarity
across racial lines. His name is Kent Wong, and he is the director
of the UCLA Labor Center. Kent, thank you for
being with us here today. - Thank you so much, Julissa, and so great to be with you today. My work has really very much been at the intersection of economic
justice and racial justice, and they are deeply interconnected. The modern labor laws
that guide this nation were developed in the decade of the 1930s during the Great Depression. And while this was a huge breakthrough to, for the first time,
provide basic rights for workers in this country
to form and join unions and to collectively bargain, it was also deliberately exclusive of many groups of workers, especially women, people
of color, and immigrants. My beginnings as a boycott organizer with the United Farm Workers of America taught me that the very foundation of the United Farm Workers
of America was an alliance between a Filipino-American
labor organization and a Mexican labor organization that brought to birth the
United Farm Workers of America under the leadership of
Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and my good friend, Philip Vera Cruz. I have seen the power of
multi-racial organizing that lifts us all up. Especially now during the pandemic, this is the racial
healing, the solidarity, and the economic and racial justice that our communities desperately need. - And I know you talked
about collaboration, and that is an extremely powerful tool, not only in the work of racial healing, but in every pursuit of
racial equity and justice. And for more building strong coalitions, I'd like to turn to Linda Sarsour. Linda is an activist and organizer. She's also the co-founder
of the Women's March, "until freedom and empower change." Linda, thank you as well for being here, and for lending us your voice, and just for fighting for women like me. You've spent years organizing
at the grassroots level. How have you built
intersectionality into your work? Specifically, how have you
approached this truth-telling and these uncomfortable conversations across race and ethnicity in your work? - I've been doing this work
for about 20 years now, since the horrific attacks of 911. And I got to see the very
community that I'm from, people who look like me, who look like my father's,
like my brothers, literally targeted by law enforcement. I watched men in our community detained, separated from their children. And that is really my radicalizing moment. So I started understanding that
intersections of oppression: anti-Black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism. It really was, for me, became
like this tree of racism, and all of us were kind
of branches on this tree. And in order for this tree to live, we have to all come in solidarity and that's where the roots come from. It's not possible for us to
always believe the same things or to show up in the same ways, because we are different
people, we grew up differently, we are from different communities. I believe that unity is not uniformity, that we can organize in a space where basic principles
are what we adhere to, dignity for all people, that everybody deserves
to live in this world safely and free from targeting, that we all don't just
survive, that we thrive. And that doesn't require you
to be part of a political party or be on the left or the
right, that just requires you to be someone with basic
humanity and dignity. - I want to go ahead and pass the mic now as well to Dr. Denese Shervington. Dr. Shervington is the founder and CEO of the Institute of
Women and Ethnic Studies, and a professor of psychiatry at the Tulane University
School of Medicine. You wrote an important
book on racial healing. "Healing is the Revolution,"
and it came out in 2018. And a lot has changed
in the world since 2018, although it was only a few years ago. But so much has impacted our
world, specifically COVID. How has COVID challenged or reaffirmed what we knew about racial
healing before this pandemic? - What we have seen with the
pandemic is just the exposure of just multiple layers of inequities. And for me as a physician, of course, that turned
up mostly in health. We now have to have the conversation about extensive, preexistent
and visible inequities in the face of this invisible
threat, the pandemic. But what has happened with the
toxicity of white supremacy, and to me, one of the major issues there, is that the people who are othered are perceived as being inferior. When one group claims superiority, that usually is at the
expense of the other, and the other then is
seen as not deserving. Racial healing as individuals
and as a community, I think it requires us to
get back to that deep knowing that we are one, that we
have to care for each other, and that our liberation happens together. - I'm going to redirect this, again, to talk to Mr. Kent Wong. What do you feel are the most
pressing issues right now with the current climate and where do you think we go from here? - We are in the middle
of the worst pandemic in over 100 years. And the tragedy is that
not all within our society are facing the pandemic in the same way. The pandemic has also seen billionaires making billions in profits. The stock market is
shattering new records. The housing market, especially
the upper end housing market, is going through the roof, literally. We have millions and millions
of people in this country who are food insecure, who are facing homelessness
and the threat of eviction. So this is the reality that we face. And when we talk about racial healing, it is how can we
understand the commonality that brings our communities
together, and at the same time, understand very conscious
and deliberate moves to try to move in the other direction and to pit us against one another. The solution must be to understand the deep roots that bind us together. When we stand together and advocate for, work for
racial and economic justice, we can achieve wonderful things together. And so that is the
spirit of racial healing that I keep with me every day. - How do we keep the momentum
that Kent just spoke on, how do we keep this momentum
going for the long run? - So we have no choice,
but to keep the momentum. There are people currently,
right now, today, who are still impacted by
homelessness, by poverty. We still have Black and
Brown people being killed at the hands of law enforcement
across this country, at the hands of gun violence
across this country. We have people in our
communities who die everyday because they don't have
access to adequate healthcare. It's about what is injustice,
and what are we ready to do to get justice for our people? There are people in our communities who, it's not that they're voiceless, it's that they don't yet have
the tools or the platforms to fight for justice for themselves. So they count on organizers,
and activists, and academics, and people, and labor unions, and others to do the kind of grassroots
work in the communities. Our people everyday count
on us to be on the streets. That's why for me, I always say to people, "When do you stop doing this work?" And I say, "Well you stop doing this work when you stop loving your people." - Non of us can underestimate the power of personal
connection and share community. That's what it's all about. What I want to start
with. Dr. Shervington, I was wondering if you
could share your perspective on what the charge is. What can people do to move
forward with truth-telling and healing as essential steps
to achieve racial equity? And can you share actually
practical examples for those listening? - It really means starting to understand what the root causes of racism are. You'll be surprised how many of us in our communities in BIPOC communities don't understand the history of where the separation started, many of us don't know the history. And in particularly in the
African-American community, many of us don't understand, from scholars like Brian
Smedley, who talked about race as culturally invented by other humans to show up human difference and then to use that as a mechanism to limit access to
privilege, power, and wealth. And then in doing the work,
then we have to understand how that racism turns up in
our minds, in our bodies, and how it can even
diminish and extinguish, to me, the beautiful light of our souls and a kind of inherent jouissance that we have about our existence. - Racial healing means action. Dr. Martin Luther King,
and the Freedom Riders, and the people that staged sit-ins and put their lives on
the line for justice. So we are all the
beneficiaries of that movement. We have to engage in the
fight for voting rights. We have to engage in the fight
to end mass incarceration, and the criminalization
of communities of color, and especially Black men. And we have to engage in
the fight for full rights for 11 million undocumented immigrants, who are our essential workers and who are locked in an
apartheid-style system, where forever they're denied basic rights as human beings within our society. When we talk about racial healing, it is a collective action. It is an action that binds us
together and grows a future, where we can envision
the beloved community that we all seek. - Sometime it's just about
being there for somebody that may not have somebody other than you. That is the most powerful form
of solidarity, showing up. Well, we gotta get back to the basics. It's about your neighbors. You can't go heal Chicago if you can't heal your street in Brooklyn, if you can't even have a conversation. You don't even know who
the person down the hall that lives in your apartment, you don't even know their name. We're taught individualism in America, every man and woman and
person for themselves. So there's a lot of
unlearning that we have to do. There's a lot of ways for us
to show up for one another. And I think that that's the essence that we've been missing right now, and also the rage that we bring. You know, our anger comes from love, and it comes from a
place of wanting to heal. I just want people to know
that don't be ashamed of rage, rage in the face of injustice,
that's a normal process. - We all share the air that we breathe, the oxygen that we need to live. And I think from that
space, if we could all tap into that truth of our humanity, that we belong to each other, that we responsible for each other, that as human beings, we cannot
survive without each other. - It is so important for all
of us to recognize the ways that our identity and our
experience are shaped and shared by the world that is around us. And I'm sure that anyone that's watching and anyone that's listening has been inspired by each
and every one of you today to fight, and to continue, and to look for the hope in the future. Thank you. - Thank you.
- Thank you. (gentle calming music) (bright upbeat music) - [Man] Flint is lint is
an amazing, beautiful, and complex city. - If you ever need to be
encouraged or inspired by the real grit of humanity,
you will find that in Flint. - The water crisis was
a moment in our history, the Flint City history,
where 100,000 people, that includes aging seniors and 10,000, zero to five-year-olds, were exposed to lead in
their drinking water. - When most people think
of the Flint water crisis, they think of lead, but it was
really much more than that. It started with a crisis of democracy. That really created a crisis of trust in government at all levels. - How do we remediate these types of environmental injustices? How do we move forward
and working together for low to moderate-income areas, Black and Brown communities? We definitely have to value each other as human beings first. (gentle calming music) - The water crisis really
acted as a catalyst. It provided an opportunity to really have meaningful
conversations about race. - The underpinnings of truth, racial healing, and transformation teach us that we've placed the hierarchy on the value of human life. And how that shows up in our society is people have differential
access to healthcare, or goods or services or quality housing. - We began to bring in
healing practitioners to support the grounding,
that's gonna be necessary, to see one another in our common humanity. - How do you begin the
process to do your work while other people are doing their work, and you're willing and
open enough to do that? - Multi-sector problems
require multi-sector solutions. The ways that we had to partner to get through the water crisis was also the system
that we needed to build, to be able to respond to whatever crisis comes in the future. - We developed a partnership
with the City of Flint around a public housing initiative called Choice Neighborhoods. We have undertaken the COVID-19 task force on racial inequities. - Post George Floyd, there
were a number of commitments around what we would do to engage police in the
most authentic ways, to support police engaging community in the most authentic way. - We had our entire local police force participate in the healing circles. - And that also allowed us to look at some very specific changes
in policies and practices that we're going to elevate. We're going to put forth a
report to the police chief and support advocacy around healthier environment
for police to serve in. As a racial healing practitioner,
it's part of my role to create a space for
people to speak their truth. - Right, but ultimate healing
comes from the inside out. So it first starts with the
work we need to do within. - I can see the difference
in our police force. I can see the engagement
and the morale being lifted, because now they understand
how to deescalate situations, how not to be so fearful of
people because of their color. - Truth racial healing
and transformation work is so important in Flint because much of what has happened in Flint has its underpinnings in racial, inequity, and systemic and structural racism. - In order for us to re-establish the level of trust in this community, we have to inspire a level of hope. - It's transformational
because you do the work, but the world seems different,
more seems possible, partnerships seem possible,
where before they weren't. - [Man] Now we're in a much better place. We recognize who we are and
what the task is ahead of us. - I don't think I've been
involved in any circle that has really been
a negative experience, or that didn't have some type of impact. - When you look out at your community and humanity is front and center, and the contributions that
community gets to bring to bear, you say, man, what a beautiful world. (gentle calming music) - What an incredible story. The movement in Flint, Michigan serves as a profound reminder of the human cost of systemic inequity, and the importance of
approaching systems change with a lens of racial equity and healing. At the core of truth, racial
healing, and transformation is the belief that we
can unlearn the biases that foment racism. We know that when we
work across identities and invite more people and perspectives to join us in the conversation, we can move from
divisiveness to solidarity, and from competition to community. And that gives us the strength we need to face important truths,
the difficult truths of our complicated and
profoundly unjust past, and the hopeful truths of our
shared interdependent future. Once we face these trues together, how do we transform
institutions to reflect them? How do we change systems larger and older than any one of us? How do we move forward? They're important questions, and they're questions that
our next set of panelists have dedicated their work
and their lives to answering. We'll be hearing from
some of the leading minds in health equity, civil
rights, behavioral science, immigrant and refugee
justice, and education, but first please join me in
welcoming our next guest, poet, artist, and organizer, Reyes, joined by artist and
activist, John Legend, for a very special performance. (shoes clacking) (upbeat piano music) ♪ I wish I knew how ♪ ♪ it would feel to be free ♪ ♪ I wish I could break ♪ ♪ all the chains holding me ♪ ♪ And I wish I could say ♪ ♪ all the things that I should say ♪ ♪ Say 'em loud, say 'em clear ♪ ♪ For the whole round world to hear ♪ ♪ From the ancestral
homelands, birds fly free ♪ ♪ Of the Three Fires Confederacy, ♪ ♪ Odawa, Ojibwe, Bode wad mi ♪ ♪ Beyond politics and trickery ♪ ♪ True trauma healing,
truth-telling told is necessary ♪ ♪ Ugly, messy mixes, emotionally moving ♪ ♪ In frame flash focus record ♪ ♪ Historic truth must be
remixed and rescored ♪ ♪ Whether hamdulillah or said in tongue ♪ ♪ Pray to the Lord ♪ ♪ Humanities shared, families
cared, our music remembered ♪ ♪ Nurture relationships
to build and repair ♪ ♪ Systematic oppression ♪ ♪ That constantly glares.
Our shared humanity ♪ ♪ In the bang of stars, fire, and flare ♪ ♪ I find freedom from there,
I find freedom from there ♪ ♪ I wish I could share ♪ ♪ all the love that's in my heart ♪ ♪ Remove all the bars ♪ ♪ that keep us apart ♪ ♪ And I wish you could know ♪ ♪ what it means to be me ♪ ♪ Then you'd see and agree ♪ ♪ that every man should be free ♪ ♪ So we work toward
collective liberation ♪ ♪ Working toward collaborate ♪ ♪ And advocate for local transformation ♪ ♪ Healing from the pain
of white supremacy ♪ ♪ On high-level sonic
vibration, verberation ♪ ♪ Black and Mexicano ♪ ♪ Luchando mano a mano,
said in translation ♪ ♪ Coming together ♪ ♪ To repair the harms of racism
beyond just this nation ♪ ♪ We speak with fire and
strength and voice and sound ♪ ♪ Ancestors drum dances
speak from the underground ♪ ♪ Plant seeds to build
movements, community power ♪ ♪ Seeds grow, bloom, and flower ♪ ♪ Roses from the concrete ♪ ♪ We rose from the concrete ♪ ♪ with plans concrete to organize, ♪ ♪ march, build, and be reborn. ♪ ♪ We use the sound to heal and transform ♪ ♪ United through rhythms and
waves to hit your eardrum ♪ ♪ Words felt on the tips of a tongue ♪ ♪ Counter narrative poem ♪ ♪ The pen is mightier than the gun ♪ ♪ I'm no more than a native sun ♪ ♪ Standing in the shadow of the sun ♪ ♪ Looking up at branches where
strange fruit once hung ♪ ♪ Healing with dance and song ♪ ♪ As we listen to ancient hymns sung ♪ ♪ As we listen to ancient hymns sung ♪ ♪ Well, I wish I could be ♪ ♪ like a bird up in the sky ♪ ♪ How sweet it would be ♪ ♪ if I found I could fly ♪ ♪ Oh, I'd soar to the sun ♪ ♪ then I'd look down at the sea ♪ ♪ I'd sing 'cause I know ♪ ♪ I'd sing 'cause I'd know ♪ ♪ Oh, I'd sing 'cause I'd know ♪ ♪ I'd sing 'cause I'd know ♪ ♪ I'd sing 'cause I'd know ♪ ♪ How it feels ♪ ♪ to be free ♪ ♪ To be free, to be free, to be free ♪ (bright, gentle music) - Hi everyone, I'm Rochelle Riley. I am a writer by trade,
warrior by necessity, but our conversation today is
with experts in perception, and, law, and identity. We recognize the importance of building solidarity across communities. To get us started, please
welcome Rachel Godsil. Rachel, you've written dozens
of groundbreaking reports on implicit bias and stereotype threat. What have you learned from your research about how racism and trauma affect us as individuals and communities, and how to change the way
people talk about racism? - As a white woman doing this work, I've really been
conscious, have always been in the many decades of doing the work, but I think particularly in recent years, of just what it means that,
as a person who's white, my life experience is so different from the colleagues who
I work with so closely, from the people I care about so deeply. The idea of implicit bias,
is automatic associations of stereotypes and attitudes
toward particular groups, where if something about our identity is triggered in a context, it can deeply undermine how we show up by sharing those phenomena
across every sector that matters, the healthcare sector, the
criminal legal system, education, the workplace, and all of those contexts, the structural inequalities that exist are in a sense manifested in
moment to moment, behaviors that if those continue,
the cumulative effect is to exacerbate those
various systemic inequalities. - To talk about those compounding effects, I want to turn to Dr. David Williams, who developed the most widely-used measure of discrimination in health studies, the "Everyday Discrimination Scale." His life's work has been focused
on the way social factors, materially impact our
physical and mental health often in harmful ways. David, I want us to jump right in on how we can help each
other heal from those harms and prevent them in the future. - I do think people should
have a sense though, before I talk about how we heal, have a sense of the degree of the harms that are caused by
interpersonal discrimination. The good news is, science
has also identified, there are multiple resources
at the individual level that can cushion the negative effects of
discrimination on health. Let me give you an example of one study, a study of African-American
teenagers in Georgia. Those teens who were embedded in positive social relationships
with their parents, with their friends, with their teachers, the quality of social ties broke the relationship,
destroyed that relationship between exposure to discrimination and physiological dysregulation. Let me give you a second study. National data on African-Americans found that high levels of discrimination led to higher rates of depression and depressive symptoms
in African-Americans. But religious involvement was a resource. Frequency of religious attendance, frequency of receiving support from members at your place of worship, and looking to God for
guidance in your daily life, each of those three mechanisms
reduce the negative effects of exposure to discrimination
on mental health. One last study, it was a study
of First Nation communities, where the Indigenous youth in Canada at the time of the study
had the highest rates of youth suicide in the world. And there was surprise, half of the 196 First Nations
communities they studied had had no suicides at all, although as a group this population had the highest rates of suicide. So they began to wonder
what makes a difference. And they identified
markers of empowerment, markers of protests to the
federal government in Canada. Those communities that were protesting
and fighting for control over the services they
provided to the community, fighting for titles to land and property, and having places in their community where they celebrated their
culture, and youth learned to pride themselves in their
history and their culture. So actually, protests, and
empowerment, and engagement, and working for others, is actually a powerful
resource that can cushion the negative effects of
exposure to discrimination and stress on health. - I'd like to ask our
next panelist, Quyên Ðinh, Executive Director of the Southeast Asia
Resource Action Center, otherwise known as SEARAC, can you tell us about the
work that you've been doing, and what racial healing and
justice mean to your work. - Foresee rep, what's most
important to understand is that we represent the
largest community of refugees ever to pre-settle in America. I am so proud to identify as a second-generation
Vietnamese American. But our communities
would not have been here, had American allies not have stood up and protected our rights
to live and to be free. And not only that, this is a history that would not have been made possible without the solidarity of
African-American communities, from the Black Panther Movement, to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., to Black Americans who stood up for the
resettlement of refugees, three major rights that we
fight to protect everyday, our rights to be seen, our right to heal, and our right to family. Our right to be seen, in particular in this moment with COVID, is so particularly important,
'cause this is where we see the importance of data disaggregation and its ability to reveal so many traumas. It was the power of local communities who called for data disaggregation that revealed higher incidences
of COVID for Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander
communities in particular, who we know experience long-term poverty, who have experienced traumas from being survivors of war and genocide, as well as having higher prevalences of previous health conditions
and chronic health conditions that have made our communities
more vulnerable to COVID. - I want to talk about alliances a minute, because history has been filled with these moments of alliance, whether it was Jewish
Americans and African-Americans at the turn of the 20th century. Are you seeing those types of alliances, is that where we need to be? - What is top of mind are
the refugees from Afghanistan that are happening right now. And the moment that we
saw the airports closing, the Vietnamese American and Southeast Asian American community immediately saw our histories
of being rushed in Saigon to get on the last planes
to get out of Vietnam. And it was, for me, incredible to see the community respond in solidarity with fundraising efforts to
resettle new Afghan families, to support local and
national organizing efforts, to make sure that we accepted as many Afghan refugees as possible, and to make sure that we retold the story of Southeast Asian American refugees and the incredible contributions that we have made as a
community to this country. This is the organizing that we have seen happen
across the country and has been so phenomenal. We know that this country
has done it before, and we know that we can do it
again, but this time better. - Thank you, I love that. Give me hope. I know that there are people
listening to this conversation and people who will talk about this, who will be stunned by the studies, because so often, we see people who literally just have not
believed how hard it is. And I can tell you that after
the death of George Floyd, I, for one, became the "Black
Google" and "Black therapist" for a lot of people who
literally had so many questions about African-American history,
about pain, about suffering, things that they just literally, either just never had to think about, never had to deal with. It's almost as if this
was this other world that was open to them. How do we take advantage of
that in a way that makes sense? - We need to take advantage of the moment, but we also can't hold onto
our blinders so strongly that we refuse to see the truth. One of the challenges is
many Americans overstate the degree of racial progress and think, yes, there
was racism in the past with Martin Luther King and
the civil rights movement. All of those problems were
solved back in the 1960s. and maybe today Blacks
actually have an advantage because of affirmative action. And they're just not in
touch with the reality. So finding ways and being open to learn and understand the
degree of racial inequity that still persists in our society today. - Rachel, I think that
that's one of the things that's hardest for some people who have embraced this American history and seen it in a certain way for so long. And all of a sudden, now it seems there's this effort to change the history, but it's not changing the history, it's just really finally
addressing the totality of history. How do we overcome this sense that America might be losing something by embracing its truth? - For a lot of white people who are in a place of shame
and guilt about where we are, we have to refocus away
from that shame and guilt, and enter the story with all the communities
that comprise this country. One of the ways to perhaps think about what this moment might allow is for the idea that those who are white can be part of a multiracial
coalition together, that it doesn't have to be a binary. - I want to go back to the point that has been made
by both my colleagues today about the importance of stories, the importance of narrative. Because one of the things we have to do is we need to build empathy. When we feel the pain of others, then we are mobilized to
say, "This is unacceptable, and we have to do something about it." And what the research indicates is that there is a huge
racial gap in empathy. The feeling comes, those
positive emotions come from seeing stories that
we can identify with. And then it changes how we feel,
and it changes our openness to saying, "We need to change
things we need to do better." We need to create safe
spaces where people can talk, but we also need to think of initiatives where we can now begin
to share those stories, share those narratives
that have been hidden so that we can break down
these barriers that we have, and that are deeply embedded
in our socialization, and that we can see the common
humanity in all of ourselves. and recognize the dignity in
every human being we encounter. - And Quyên, how about you? Based on your experience and
the communities you work with, what are some practical recommendations that you would give to
those listening today, especially younger people,
those future policymakers on how to create pathways
to healing advocacy and policy transformation? - It really comes down to continuing your journey of learning. If anything, today sparked
a curiosity for you, we invite you to learn more
about our organizations, learn more about our work, follow us, be a part of the Southeast
Asian American Movement or these other movements to really dismantle racial injustice. - I have to ask this of all three of you, because that is the answer, we have to create these safe spaces, we have to create these initiatives where we can share stories
and see each other, whose job is it? - It's our job, it's all of our job. I like to end many of my talks with a quote from Robert Kennedy. And he said, "Each time a man or woman stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth
a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples can build a current, which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." And I encourage myself every day, and I encourage my audiences,
be a ripple of hope, and together we can change things. We can't wait for others to
do it, we need to do our part and others will follow us, and each one of us can
be a ripple of hope. - The sad reality is we're
living through a moment of which many people
refuse to hear the truth, but that doesn't mean we should
stop pushing to make them. We have to stop teaching the American myth and teach the American truth. We cannot omit the centuries
of enslavement and free labor that made America, we have to
have truthful conversations about who we've been and who we are because that, when we start to share, is when we really see ourselves. Thank you all of you for sharing your knowledge
and your experiences, and reminding us that in this
work, we are never alone, and for giving us hope that
the future that we choose will be the future we
can leave our children. Thank you so much. - Thank you.
- Thank you. (gentle calming music)
- Thank you. - As we near the end of this
year's event, I wanna reiterate what an honor it has been to be your host. I began my career in
journalism 30 years ago, guided by a simple mission,
to uncover the truth, no matter how challenging or
uncomfortable it might be. It's an ethos that I've recognized in so many of the
conversations we've had today, conversations grounded
in the understanding that truth is the foundation on which a more equitable
society can and must be built. Truth is the foundation for all healing. And the stories we've heard today are proof that healing does follow, that this work, in all of its
stages, continues to get done, across industries and sectors, across race and gender
and sexual identities, across generations and communities and every
corner of the world. Great pain calls for great healing, and so, not in spite of the strife and struggle of the past
year, but because of it, the work of healing has
continued and expanded. As the pandemic fanned
the flames of racism, xenophobia and health
inequity, we faced a choice. Allow the pain of isolation
and the fear of the virus to drive us apart, or come together against
the forces that divide us. And so many of us have
chosen to come together. We came together to push
back against Asian hate, to reaffirm that Black lives
matter, to demand change from our justice system
and law enforcement. We chose to confront injustices, and as today's panelists have made clear, we doubled down in our
work to create solutions that heal the wounds and
repair the harms of racism. Today has been an important
reminder for all of us that progress is always possible, and that the path ahead, long
and winding as it may be, leads in only one direction, forward. The conversations we've had today have been a step down that path, but the journey doesn't end here, there's still so much to be done, so much to learn and
fight for and celebrate. And so, as long as we remain
committed to doing so together, we can be the change we wanna see, we can make racial equity
not a far off dream, but something we see around us every day, in affordable healthcare,
good paying jobs, and quality education. I am inspired by the many
leaders watching today who are fighting to bring racial healing to their own communities every day. Thank you. And for those of you who
want to begin this journey for yourself and your community, visit DayOfRacialHealing.org,
to download our action kits, to learn how to get started. We invite you all to take a minute or two to fill out our quick survey
via the link in the chat box, and to continue today's
conversation online using the hashtag #HowWeHeal. It is now my pleasure to turn it back over to La June Montgomery Tabron. (gentle calming music) - Thank you Soledad for introducing this
final conversation today, and for hosting this entire
event, we appreciate you. And to close today's program,
I am delighted to speak with my friend and
colleague Heather McGhee. For me, this is a beautiful
circle of life moment. Heather is the author of the
New York Times bestseller, "The Sum of Us: What
Racism Costs Everyone, and How We Can Prosper Together." But she's also an expert in
economic and social policy, and a multi-generational member of our Kellogg Foundation family. Her mother, Gail Christopher, led our racial equity
work at the foundation, and was instrumental in co-creation of the first National
Day of Racial Healing. Heather was a founding member of the Foundation's Solidarity
Council on Racial Equity, which is designed to inspire more people to actively pursue equity. I love that we have a chance
to reconnect, Heather, and Heather, welcome. - Thank you, La June, and happy Day of Racial Healing to you. This has been a beautiful program. - Heather, your book is very pertinent to the work we are doing to achieve racial equity and healing, and I really want to share
your views with the audience. In the book, you describe
how many people see race as a zero-sum game. Please tell us about this theory, and why it is the wrong,
and even harmful way to look at such an important
and integral aspect of every issue and
challenge we face today. - I wrote the book "The Sum
of Us" out of a real hunger to figure out, what is
stymieing American progress, what's holding us back? We are one of the wealthiest
nations in the world and yet we have such high
rates of child poverty, we have such dysfunction in our politics. There's so many ways in which we could and should
be doing so much better. And one of the first
insights I came across was this worldview, this story
that too many people believe, the story that is sold in our society by powerful, economic,
and political elites out of a sense of self-interest. It's a story that says that
we're at odds with one another, that we're not on the same team. That progress for one group has to come at the expense of others. It's this racial zero-sum. When you really look at it,
you can see how it's a lie. It's about naming the
zero-sum, exposing its lie, holding accountable those who are selling
it for their own profit and finding a way to recognize that we really are on the same team and we rise or fall together. - A favorite passage of mine
from your book, Heather, was where you write, "I found that the people who had
replaced the zero-sum with a new formula of
cross-racial solidarity had found the key to unlocking what I began to call
a solidarity dividend, from higher wages to cleaner air, made possible through collective action." Tell us about the solidarity
dividend. What does it mean, and how does it apply to our
racial equity and healing work? - It's the idea that no one
should have to fight alone. And so this idea of
the solidarity dividend was, for me, from an economic orientation. It was about replacing the
zero-sum paradigm that has led to racism having so many
economic costs in our society, racism in our politics
and our policy-making leading to us really shortchanging common solutions to our common problems, us really having a higher
level of distrust of government than we should, because government has become
so racialized in our politics. Replacing that whole old
paradigm of the racial zero-sum with the idea that if we come together
through collective action, and in our context, that's gotta be multi-racial
collective action. We are hurdling towards a
point in American history where there will be no racial majority. And so in every community in the country, in one way or another, to really get collective
action to solve big challenges, it's gotta be across lines of
race and culture and origin and, often, language. Philanthropy plays such an
important role as a real linchpin in our ecosystem of winning social change, including public policy. So I would love to hear from
you, what's your vision? How do you see philanthropy playing a role in furthering social change, particularly around issues
of racial healing and equity in these very divided times? - I believe we are in a moment right now, and it's a moment of opportunity. And there's something different
about the level of awareness related to racial equity, and really a desire to move to action. What we can do is lean into that momentum and to help support people
who are re-imagining what an equitable nation
could mean for everyone, when I think about your
word, a solidarity dividend, to really help support people as they think about changing that paradigm and understanding what's in it for them. - We really can all see so many of the things that
keep families up at night, childcare, healthcare, poverty
wages, clean air and water. All of these issues,
really, can be resolved if we come together and use the power of
our collective action, what we simply can't solve on our own, and philanthropy has such a
core role to play in that. - You've written in your
book that racism hurts, it hurts us all, but diversity
could be our superpower. Tell us what you mean by
that and what it can mean for social and economic structures. - Basically, when we bring together people who see the world slightly differently, we tend to see the whole
picture, the full 360, if we're not all looking at the problem from the same direction
and the same viewpoint. That is something that
should be a natural resource for the United States. And ethnically diverse
nations in the country, we are, as I said, soon,
going to be a country with no racial majority. All of that is where we can really see
the potential maximized by bringing in values of
diversity, equity, and inclusion into our sense of the common good. - I was so excited to learn that you're about to publish
an adaptation of your book for young readers. I believe that is great, and I'm sure it will be an inspiration
and uplifting for people. How did you decide to do that, and why? And what are you hoping
young readers will learn from your book? - I thought about my own
education, an excellent education, and yet there was so much that I didn't understand and didn't know about who we are to one another,
about our common history, about the ways that
racism is not a zero-sum, that it has had costs for everyone. These themes are so important for young people to know
as they learn history, because that makes it relevant to today. But I think about a way to
look at our economy and history through the lens of racial equity, but not one that's about us versus them, one in which all students
can really see themselves in the story of how
we've gotten to where we are and how we can get to
a better place together. - Thank you so much for joining us today. It's been a great conversation. I just wish you the best,
Heather, and thank you so much for celebrating this National
Day of Racial Healing with us, and with the
nation, and the world. - Thank you, La June, thank
you for your leadership. Congratulations on all that you've done, it's been a pleasure to be a
part of commemorating this day. Thank you. - Thank you all for joining us today for our Sixth Annual National
Day of Racial Healing, we have just a few more minutes to go, but I hope you have found
this refreshing, informative and inspiring. I am so pleased to see and experience the depth of work being done. Our panelists encouraged us to heal by building solidarity
across racial lines. They gave us a path forward
to address the systems that create disparities for children and families
and all of our communities. And we saw again today, how racial healing and
racial equity are a journey. There's always more distance to travel, and every single person
is needed on the journey. It is exciting to imagine the
possibilities ahead of us. A special thanks to everyone who shared their talents and traditions. Your participation grounds us in the richness of our diversity, and helps us see the sacredness
in each other more fully. It was so meaningful to see
our friends in Flint talk about how the truth, racial healing
and transformation process played a role in relationship
building and change, after the water crisis, which was a formidable
environmental injustice. All of our communities face crises and challenge born of racism. In Flint's story, we see
the kind of transformational and sustainable change that's possible when residents and leaders
engage in racial healing. I encourage you to join us in this work and start your own racial healing journey. I challenge you to think boldly, consider the power of the
possible and work in solidarity. This is how we bridge the
divide to transform communities for our children and future generations. This is how we heal. (upbeat calming music) (Supaman singing in foreign language) (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why's one man rich
and another man poor ♪ ♪ Why we ain't satisfied,
why we gotta have more ♪ ♪ Why your suicide rates
over there so high ♪ ♪ Why I tell you the truth
but you say don't lie ♪ ♪ Why's being a good
father at a all time low ♪ ♪ Why is is it acceptable,
yo, why, I dunno ♪ ♪ Why she blame him and he
blame her, it's useless ♪ ♪ As yourself this question,
why you makin' excuses ♪ ♪ Why do parents gotta burry their kids ♪ ♪ Why we text and drive,
not caring how scary it is ♪ ♪ Why you so hard to forgive
and leave the past behind ♪ ♪ And if you did, then that's divine ♪ ♪ Why don't you help your
brother when you see him fall ♪ ♪ Why do we act like
God don't see it all ♪ ♪ Why do we call them Black,
them White, them Asian ♪ ♪ And use labels ♪ ♪ Now, that's racism ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Yeah, why is it innocent
people locked up for life ♪ ♪ Why some people can't say nothing nice ♪ ♪ Why do always got a question
with all of them needs ♪ ♪ And why won't you follow your dreams ♪ ♪ Tell me why, the night
when you took my dad ♪ ♪ Why'd you let me see my
grandpa cry, tell me why ♪ ♪ And why do you choose to hide ♪ ♪ Even though you was
born to fly, tell me why ♪ ♪ And why don't we turn
from all the hate ♪ ♪ And why don't we learn
from our mistakes ♪ ♪ Why do I keep on wrecking
these style beats ♪ ♪ And teachers don't make more
than professional athletes ♪ ♪ Why, eh, why, eh, why ♪ ♪ Eh, why, eh, why, eh, why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Why ♪ (men singing in foreign language) (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Hm-mm ♪ (men singing in foreign language) ♪ Hm-mm ♪ (men singing in foreign language) (crickets chirping) (upbeat pop music)
(choir vocalizing) ♪ It's a crazy world that
spins round and round ♪ ♪ We're always pulled apart ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ It's a crazy world that
spins round and round ♪ ♪ Filled with lies and
then we never talk ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Hold that thought,
take a moment to listen ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Understand before you understand ♪ ♪ Just be kind, take a moment to care ♪ ♪ When the world spins round and round, ♪ ♪ love is almost down ♪ ♪ Together we can be so much more ♪ (choir singing in foreign language) ♪ Liberate hope with a little love ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate with a little understanding ♪ (choir sings in foreign language) ♪ Liberate love have a conversation ♪ ♪ So open your mind
and let the sun shine ♪ (choir singing in foreign language) (choir vocalizes)
