10-Year-Old Boy Delivers Emotional Speech About Experiencing Racism in School

Gavin Alston, a 10-year-old black boy, gave a speech at a city council meeting in Redmond, Oregon about experiencing racism from classmates, including being called racial slurs.
Gavin's speech follows a racist incident targeting the city's first black councilmember, but Gavin shares his own experiences of racism to call for change.
Gavin recounts classmates calling him the n-word and "monkey" since transferring to a new school.
Gavin hopes his speech will encourage judging people based on their character rather than their skin color.
Gavin's emotional speech draws applause, but afterwards he bursts into tears thinking about what he has endured.