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WATCH: Michelle Obama Says She ‘Can’t Make People Not Afraid Of Black People,’ Laments ‘White Flight’

Amanda Prestigiacomo
WATCH: Michelle Obama Says She ‘Can’t Make People Not Afraid Of Black People,’ Laments ‘White Flight’
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that she “can’t make people not afraid of black people,” though she tries to “pick away at the scabs of discrimination.”

“As people doubted us coming through — ‘Are you Princeton material? Can you really make the grade? Can you cut it?’ — what do you do in those instances? All you can do is put your head down and do the work and let the work, your truth, speak for itself,” Mrs. Obama explained at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, as reported by The Hill.

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