And we were talking about the fact that we were providing funding for this project in Atlanta that literally was going to restitch or old communities that have been separated. Back in the 1950s in the name of something called urban renewal, a lot of African American communities were literally split in two. They just ran the highway straight through it. Communities were broken up, the ecosystems of entrepreneurial businesses split up. And this story can be told dozens of times all across our country. (15:12–15:22)
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