A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube interview titled "Legacy of Leadership and Impact," in which Mick Hunt and a guest discuss the guest's civil-rights-influenced upbringing, family entrepreneurship, and accomplishments as mayor of New Orleans — notably reduced crime, economic recovery, and reshaping the city's national image. The guest frames their public service as part of a broader movement to rebuild New Orleans and carry forward ancestral legacies.
Man, the impact that you have had, not just on me, but I'm going to say millions of others, is second to none.
Because of my father and mother's involvement in civil rights and politics, I got a chance to. I kind of tagged along, saw things that, you know, childcare was. You come with me to the NAACP meeting. You come with me to the voter registration drive. You come with me while I run around town. Our ancestors, forefathers, foremothers who lived from the end of slavery until the civil rights generation, were incredible entrepreneurs and pioneers. They built businesses, they built funeral homes, they built insurance companies.
When you were the mayor of New Orleans, lowest crime rate that they had ever had. Right. You. You brought economic growth back to the city. You cleaned up the perception of what New Orleans was on a national level.
We created a bit of a movement, and it was a movement to rebuild New Orleans.
Yes.
I mean, and I felt like we had to create a movement atmosphere, a movement atmosphere to get people active and involved, and we tackled the, you know, the violence problem.