Michelle Obama Delivers Tuskegee Commencement Address
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The First Lady is back in Alabama, this time to deliver the commencement address at Tuskegee University.
About 500 Tuskegee graduates and their family and friends packed the James Center Saturday, the university even set up four overflow rooms.
This is the first of three graduations Michelle Obama will attend. Mrs. Obama chose Tuskegee because of its legacy as one of the top historically black universities in the country.
And it’s the university’s rich history that she drew on in her address, asking the graduates to use it as motivation for the future.
Michelle Obama said, “While we’ve come so far, the truth is, is that those age old problems are stubborn. And they haven’t fully gone away, so there will be times just like for those airmen, when you feel like folks look right past you. Or they just see a fraction of who you really are. The world won’t always see you in those caps and gowns…to succumb to feelings of fear and anger only means that in the end we lose. But here’s the thing, our history provides us with a better story. A better blue print for how we can win.”
Mrs. Obama is the second First Lady to come to Tuskegee.
Eleanor Roosevelt was here in 1941.
