The first lady grew up in the same South Side neighborhoods as the Class of 2015 graduates who sat before her, which made for a very touching speech about overcoming hardship. "I know the struggles many of you face," she said. "How you walk the long way home to avoid the gangs, how you fight to concentrate on your homework when there's too much noise at home."
Obama said people often ask her mother: "How on earth did you ever raise kids like Michelle and Craig in a place like South Shore?" To which her mother replies: "I loved them, I believed in them, and I didn't take any nonsense from them."
The first lady wanted everyone to know that story. Because behind the nightly news stories of communities across the country, like theirs, that face all kinds of challenges and crisis are people who make "good choices every single day."
She then used stories personal to both herself and to the graduating class to drive home two lessons that she now lives by..
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