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Michelle Obama talks candidly on race in America

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    The road ahead is not going to be easy
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    It never is...
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    especially for folks like you and me
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    Beacuse while we've come so far,
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    the truth is that...
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    those age of problems are stubborn
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    They have not fully gone away
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    So there will be times...
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    just like for the zero man...
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    When you feel like folks look right past you
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    Or they see just a fraction...
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    of who you really are
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    The world won't always see you as canps guns
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    They won't know how hard you work...
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    and how much you sacrifice...
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    to make it to this day
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    They can't count the hours...
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    you spend studying to get this diploma
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    The most of the jobs you work to pay for school,
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    the time you have to drive back to home...
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    and take care of your grandma.
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    The evening you gave up the volunteers..
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    af full bag
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    or organize a camping for foundates.
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    They don't konw the part of you,
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    Instead,
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    they will make an ansumption...
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    about who they think you are...
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    based on their limited notion of the world
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    My husband and I know how frustrated...
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    that the experience can be
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    We both feel the stay...
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    and those daily slight hours of our entire lives
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    The folks who cross the street...
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    and fear of their safety
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    The caps kept close eyes...
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    on all their apartment's doors
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    The people who where the zoom...
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    soon will be the help
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    and those who have questioned our intelligence
    our honesty, even our love of this country.
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    And I know that these lonely dignities are obviously
    nothing compared to what folks across the country are dealing with every single day
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    Those nagin worried that you gonna stop for absolutely no reason
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    The fear that you drop your application will be overlook because the way you name your son.
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    The agni of seeing your kids to school that may no longer be separate,
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    but far from equal.
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    The realization that no matter how far you rise in life, how hard you work to be a good person, a good parent, a good citizen, for some folks, it will never be enough
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    And all of that, it is gonna to be e a heavy burden to carrying
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    It can feel isolating, can make you feel like your life
    somehow doesn't matter.
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    and your life invisible man is sky all about , what about all those years ago.
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    and as we seen, over the past few years, those feelings are real
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    They ruled it decades and infrustuctures challenges that makes too many folks feel frustrated and visible.,and those feelings are planing out in communities like bothen more and fixsen and so many others across this country
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    But graduates, today I want to be very clear that those feelings are not an excuse to just throw up our hands and give up, not an excuse. There are not an excuse to lose hope
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    To suscome the feelings of spare and anger, only means that in the end we lose. But here is the thing, our history provides us with a better story, a better proved group of how we can win
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    It teaches us that when we pull ourselves out in the de? and emotional dets, and we channel our frustration into studying, and organizing an bending together that we can build up ourselves and our communities up. We can take our notes deeply rooted problems together, together!
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    We can overcome anything. That stands in our way.
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Title:
Michelle Obama talks candidly on race in America
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Video Language:
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04:03

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