What A liar You Are Michelle Obama:, Michelle Obama: I Wake Up Each Day in House Built By Slaves?

 

Did slaves build the White House?

 The slaves joined a work force that included local white laborers and artisans from Maryland and Virginia, as well as immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, and other European nations.
  The payroll to slaveowners shows that the government did not own slaves, but that it did hire them from their masters
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Michelle Obama praised the diverse graduates of New York City’s oldest public institution of higher learning as she delivered the last commencement address of her tenure as first lady on Friday.
“I really want you all to know that there is a reason why, of all of the colleges and universities in this country, I chose this particular school in this particular city for this special moment,” Mrs. Obama told the graduates of the City College of New York.

Noting that students at the 169-year-old college come from 150 countries and speak more than 100 languages, she said, “You represent just about every possible background – every color and culture, every faith and walk of life.”

Founded as the Free Academy of the City of New York in 1847, City College gained a reputation as the poor man’s Harvard in the 1930s when it educated a generation of Jewish intellectuals who were shut out of elite private colleges.

City College alumni include 10 Nobel Prize winners and many renowned authors, scientists, business leaders and artists.

More than 40 percent of City College’s current students are first-generation college students and half are from low-income households.

Mrs. Obama told the graduates that “with your glorious diversity, with your remarkable accomplishments and your deep commitment to your

And, graduates, it’s the story that I witness every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters –- two beautiful, black young women -– head off to school — (applause) — waving goodbye to their father, the President of the United States, the son of a man from Kenya who came here to America — to America for the same reasons as many of you: To get an education and improve his prospects in life.

Mrs. Obama also made a thinly veiled reference to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by saying “some folks” don’t value the diversity that City College embodies. Trump has promised to build a wall at the border between the United States and Mexico and has proposed banning Muslims from entering the U.S.