Obama Tells Grads ‘I Might Have Been in Prison’

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obamaPresident Obama said yesterday that he is motivated by the knowledge that “but for the grace of God … I might have been in prison,” in a commencement address at historically black Morehouse College, where he spoke frankly about race and young men’s responsibilities to 500 male graduates.

In his second commencement address of this graduation season, the president called on the graduates to set examples for others and reach out to those who need help, telling them that as a black man he felt a unique connection to assist those in need because he could have faced similar circumstances.

“There but for the grace of God go I, I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison,” he said at the commencement ceremony at Morehouse College. “I might have been unemployed, I might not have been able to support a family, and that motivates me.”

The president said that many young black men “make bad choices,” but told the graduates, “We’ve got no time for excuses,” because the difficulties they’ve faced “pale in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured, and if they overcame them, you can too.”

“Growing up, I made quite a few myself. Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. But one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is that there is no longer any room for excuses,” he said.

Read more at ABC NEWS.

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12 COMMENTS

  1. “I might not have been able to support a family”. I never did support a family would have been more accurate. Name one job.

  2. “I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.”

    you mean to say you HAVE a tendency to make excuses…..

  3. ‘ But one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is that there is no longer any room for excuses,” he said.

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