Enough is enough. On the 65th anniversary of the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education, students from Integrate NYC are calling for real integration in schools with the #RetireSegregation campaign.
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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