#GetaHeadStart: Steven Osunsami

#GetaHeadStart: Steve Osunsami

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Steve Osunami: I tell everyone I’m a Head Start kid.

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George Stephanopoulos: ABC's Steve Osunsami is on the scene in Raleigh. Good morning, Steve.

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Steve: I think it's an important thing to know.

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Diane Sawyer: And Steve Osunsami is here now. Steve?

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Steve: People will look at you and look at you today and assume, you know, certain things about you.

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Steve: Once again, Americans of all colors plan to march from here to Montgomery.

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Steve: And when I tell them I'm a Head Start kid they get a better picture.

We were dead broke. We lived in – it's called Harrison Homes. It's still there to this day. Head Start filled a really important role at the time in giving me not just a place to go, but a place to learn, and learn early.

My memories of it were entirely positive. When I started school, school was a positive. I was looking forward to school. And then the same letters that we had in Head Start – the blow up letters – they had in my grade school. You know, I was already – I sort of knew some of that already.

My mother – I mean, I got to give her a lot of credit. She really – she wanted better for her children than she and my dad had for themselves. And that's why she was adamant that I be part of this.

My message to Head Start is to keep on keeping on. I think that the work is important. I think that the work makes a difference. I can speak plainly that the work made a difference for me.

Narrator: For information about Head Start programs in your area, please visit acf.hhs.gov/HeadStart. #GetaHeadStart. Produced in 2016 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.