Michelle Obama gave her last commencement address as First Lady at the City University of New York (CUNY) on June 3, 2016 and it was AWESOME. In an election year that has been strife with racial undertones, Michelle Obama told the CUNY graduates that America’s “greatness has always depended on contributions from people who were born elsewhere but sought out this country and made it their home.”
She eloquently spoke to her daily experience in the White House saying:
“Every single day…I wake up in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful black young women, head off to school waving goodbye to their father, the President of the United States, the son of a man from Kenya who came here to America for the same reasons as many of you: to get an education and improve his prospects in life.” – First Lady Michelle Obama
Watch her full commencement address below:
