In the Bubble with Jaime | Growing Up Black and in Poverty
Clip: Season 8 Episode 2 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Jaime Harrison talks about his family and shares one particularly difficult story.
Jaime Harrison, the 2020 Senate candidate for South Carolina, talks about growing up as a young, Black boy with few economic means. Harrison shares one story of going back to school knowing his single mother could not afford new clothes for him and how that experience was emotionally difficult for him as a child.
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In the Bubble with Jaime | Growing Up Black and in Poverty
Clip: Season 8 Episode 2 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Jaime Harrison, the 2020 Senate candidate for South Carolina, talks about growing up as a young, Black boy with few economic means. Harrison shares one story of going back to school knowing his single mother could not afford new clothes for him and how that experience was emotionally difficult for him as a child.
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I was raised by my grandparents who didn't have much money, didn't have much education.
PATRICIA STEWART (voiceover): I was 16 when Jaime was born.
I was still a kid, you know?
HARRISON (voiceover): One of the stories that really still lives with me, took place when I was in middle school.
One of the joys for kids is get ready for new school year: the new backpack; the nice, clean sneakers.
But my mom was in between jobs.
And she told me, she said, "You know, Jaime, I'm not going to be able to get your school clothes now."
I was disappointed, and I went to school, and I remember one of the kids coming up to me and saying, "Hey Jaime, are those your new school clothes?"
I remember afterwards, just going into the bathroom and crying.
That whole situation was tough.
It was really tough.
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