Michelle Obama said this in her commencement address to the 2013 graduating class at Bowie State University:
“Today, instead of walking miles every day to school, they’re sitting on couches for hours, playing video games, watching TV. Instead of dreaming of being a teacher or a lawyer or a business leader, they’re fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper,” Obama continued. “Right now, one in three African American students are dropping out of high school, only one in five African Americans between the ages of 25 and 29 has gotten a college degree.”
But priorities should change, she said, because “getting an education is as important if not more important than it was back when this university was founded.”
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