While delivering a commencement speech during YouTube Originals' DearClassOf2020, former First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the ongoing nationwide protests and coronavirus pandemic: 'Over these past couple of months, our foundation has been shaken'
While delivering a commencement address during YouTube Originals' 'Dear Class of 2020,' the former First Lady addressed the ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd:"What's happening right now is the direct result of decades of unaddressed, prejudice, and inequality."Dear Class of 2020
She added: "Over these past couple of months, our foundation has been shaken, not just by a pandemic that stole too many of our loved ones up ended our daily lives and sent tens of millions in unemployment, but also by the rumbling of the age old fault lines that our country was built on, the lines of race and power that are now once again so nakedly exposed for all of us to grapple with.
For those feeling as if they're "struggling already just to keep your head above water," and "living in a constant state of fear" Obama urged that no one should feel "hopeless." "What we finally do have is focus. We see what's happening and start relief. We see how these inequalities are playing out on our streets, and it's not just the communities most affected by these challenges that see it.
She also advised students that it's up to them to "couple every protest with plans and policies, with organizing, and mobilizing, and voting." "If you hear people expressing bigoted views or talking down to 'those people,' it is up to you to call them out. Because we won't solve anything if we're only willing to do what's easiest. We've got to make hard choices and sacrifices in our own lives."
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