00:00You can't build something off of something that's already segregated for everybody.
00:03If it's segregated, it's not for me, it's not for the other person.
00:06It should be built for everybody.
00:16I first experienced segregation in my school when I first moved to New York from Chile when I was
00:22nine years old. I was placed in an ESL class knowing no English at all. Just that lack of
00:27resource, it just failed me, you know, I had to learn English myself.
00:32We decided to make this newspaper. It has information about Integr8, it has our stories,
00:57it has real-life stories about kids that go to school in New York City, and we're giving them
01:01to you because you're the ones who are going to stand with us and help us fix these problems.
01:22I went to an all-white school. I had problems with my complexion, I hated how my hair was,
01:27I hated how there was differences and how I was treated compared to the other kids.
01:43I feel like that kind of like sets the divide between if you're gonna be able to learn about
01:49something and not be advised because I feel like the the thing that can spark a student
01:54an interest is being exposed to that interest or having the opportunity to play that sport,
02:00to learn about that class, to practice this activity, this hobby.
02:13Segregation is a border and it keeps people away from each other in the way that through
02:17schools specifically. I have friends from my neighborhood that are Black, Hispanic,
02:25that have never gone to a school with more than 10 percent, you know, Asian or white people,
02:30and they have never gone to a school with more than five sports teams.
02:48I want every student to feel comfortable in school. I don't want them to feel, oh, I can't,
03:05I don't want to go to school today because it's really humid outside, my hair's gonna go crazy.
03:10I want every student to go to school and be like, this is my home for the next 13 years.
03:17you
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