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Michelle Obama's speech at the White House
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9/7/2022
"A girl like me, she was never supposed to live in this house."
Michelle Obama is back in the White House and gave this moving speech ...
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A girl like me, she was never supposed to be up there next to Jacqueline Kennedy and Dolly Madison.
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She was never supposed to live in this house, and she definitely wasn't supposed to serve as First Lady.
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And too often in this country people feel like they have to look a certain way
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or act a certain way to fit in, that they have to make a lot of money or come from a certain group
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or class or faith in order to matter. But what we're looking at today, a portrait of a biracial
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kid with an unusual name and the daughter of a water pump operator and a stay-at-home mom,
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what we are seeing is a reminder that there's a place for everyone in this country.
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Because as Barack said, if the two of us can end up on the walls of the most famous address in the world,
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then again it is so important for every young kid who is doubting themselves to believe that
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they can too. That is what this country is about. It's not about blood or pedigree or wealth.
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It's a place where everyone should have a fair shot. Whether you're a kid taking two buses and
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a train just to get to school, or a single mother who's working two jobs to put some food on the
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table, or an immigrant just arriving, getting your first apartment, forging a future for yourself in
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a place you dreamed of. That's why for me this day isn't about me or Barack. It's not even about
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these beautiful paintings. It's about telling that fuller story, a story that includes every single
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American in every single corner of the country, so that our kids and grandkids can see something
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more for themselves. And as much as some folks might want us to believe that that story has
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lost some of its shine, that division and discrimination and everything else might have
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dimmed its light, I still know deep in my heart that what we share, as my husband continues to say,
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is so much bigger than what we don't. Our democracy is so much stronger than our differences.
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And this little girl from the South Side is blessed beyond measure to have felt the truth
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of that fuller story throughout her entire life, never more so than today.
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