Jul 26, 2016 ... ... the potential of America. But there were some people on social media who took  issue with one powerful statement in particular: “I wake up every morning in a  house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful,  intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House ...
Jul 26, 2016 ... ... done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.  And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing  with their dogs on the White House lawn. When construction on the White House  began in 1792, the site's location between slave states Virginia ...
Jul 26, 2016 ... First lady Michelle Obama delivered a powerful speech at the Democratic  national convention's opening night. Obama rallied passionately behind  presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, while also recalling, in evocative language,  the history of black Americans who 'felt the lash of bondage' and the 'sting of ...
Jul 27, 2016 ... "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," Mrs. Obama said in  her keynote address. "I watch my daughters — two beautiful, intelligent, black  young women — playing with their dogs on the White House lawn." As it turned  out, one person was not entirely amused and went so far as to "fact ...
Jan 14, 2017 ... Michelle Obama's June 2016 words about diversity during her last  commencement address as First Lady – and again at the July 2016 Democratic  National Convention – sent a chill down my spine: “I wake up every morning in a  house that was built by slaves.” Obama was speaking broadly and ...
I wake up every morning in a house (the White House) that was built by slaves.