9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The road ahead is not going to be easy 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It never is... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 especially for folks like you and me 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Beacuse while we've come so far, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the truth is that... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 those age of problems are stubborn 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They have not fully gone away 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So there will be times... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 just like for the zero man... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 When you feel like folks look right past you 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Or they see just a fraction... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of who you really are 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The world won't always see you as canps guns 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They won't know how hard you work... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and how much you sacrifice... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to make it to this day 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They can't count the hours... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you spend studying to get this diploma 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The most of the jobs you work to pay for school, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the time you have to drive back to home... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and take care of your grandma. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The evening you gave up the volunteers.. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 af full bag 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 or organize a camping for foundates. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They don't konw the part of you, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Instead, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 they will make an ansumption... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 about who they think you are... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 based on their limited notion of the world 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My husband and I know how frustrated... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that the experience can be 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We both feel the stay... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and those daily slight hours of our entire lives 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The folks who cross the street... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and fear of their safety 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The caps kept close eyes... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 on all their apartment's doors 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The people who where the zoom... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 soon will be the help 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and those who have questioned our intelligence[br]our honesty, even our love of this country. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I know that these lonely dignities are obviously [br]nothing compared to what folks across the country are dealing with every single day 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Those nagin worried that you gonna stop for absolutely no reason 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The fear that you drop your application will be overlook because the way you name your son. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The agni of seeing your kids to school that may no longer be separate, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but far from equal. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 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 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And all of that, it is gonna to be e a heavy burden to carrying 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It can feel isolating, can make you feel like your life[br]somehow doesn't matter. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and your life invisible man is sky all about , what about all those years ago. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and as we seen, over the past few years, those feelings are real 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 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 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 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 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 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 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 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! 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We can overcome anything. That stands in our way. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 #