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Resourcing and Success

In this clip, a Black Seattleite shares how she has observed the difference and disparities in available resources in neighborhoods throughout Seattle. Growing up in the Central District and being bussed out to a school on the North Side of Seattle, she saw the difference in terms of how different schools were funded. She made these observations as a young child and even now as an adult with children she has seen the differences even more starkly than before. She notes that resourcing is connected to success and the fight to even be worthy of resources in the first place is a tough one.

Our neighborhood isn’t being taken care of like the East side is being taken care of. Our schools don’t have these opportunities that others do.