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Michelle Obama: ‘I Am Still Thinking About the Country that Elected Barack Obama Twice, We Are Still Those People’

‘We know better than this’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

OBAMA: "You know, I think we know this as a country. We know better than this. I’m still thinking about the country that elected Barack Obama overwhelmingly as president twice. We are still those people. It’s just that. Sometimes we can get lost in the struggles that we face. And when folks are facing tough economic times, when jobs are scarce, when opportunities seem to be less, it’s easy to have somebody make you think it’s somebody else's fault. But when we look around it, truly who has built this country, it’s all of us, and all of us is black, brown, Puerto Rican, Mexican American, Italian, Irish, Haitian. Come on. You know, that’s the story of America, and it is the most true in fashion. You think about every seamstress that I know is from another country. You know, there’s certain skills that other countries bring, a certain style, a certain flavor. American is everything. And so, yes, I want to remind this country that the enemy isn’t -- there isn’t a 'them.' We are the 'them,' it is all of us. And we can’t lose sight of that."

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