Michelle Obama Would Like Students to Monitor Family Members for Racial Insensitivity

Michelle Obama race graduation speech

First lady Michelle Obama is encouraging students to monitor their older relatives, friends and co-workers for any racially insensitive comments they might make, and to challenge those comments whenever they’re made.

The first lady spoke on Friday to graduating high school students in Topeka, Kansas, and in remarks released over the weekend, Obama said students need to police family and friends because federal laws can only go so far in stopping racism.

“[O]ur laws may no longer separate us based on our skin color, but nothing in the Constitution says we have to eat together in the lunchroom, or live together in the same neighborhoods,” she said. “There’s no court case against believing in stereotypes or thinking that certain kinds of hateful jokes or comments are funny.”

To address these limitations in the law, Obama asked students to take steps to “drag my generation and your grandparents’ generation along with you” in the fight against racism.

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swamprat
swamprat
10 years ago

If that isn’t right out of the commie little book. Well here is one for you Moo-shell, YOU and the entire administration are racist. Yes, I’m racist, and it’s people like you, hold-her, sharpie and the rest that have had the greatest influence in making me a racist.