The First Lady Michelle Obama was guest speaker at Bowie State University graduation recently and she kept it more then real on how African American Students are not making education a priority and are more focused on becoming “ballers and rappers”. Check out what else she said at the graduation.
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Michelle Obama talked about the state of the African American students today and how they have to start changing things because our world is changing and education is needed to survive. Check out what the first lady said.
“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.”
