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Breitbart News reports on recent remarks First Lady Michelle Obama’s commencement address remarks at historically-black Bowie State University.

The first lady said education was a lifeline to the first students at the nearly 150-year-old school. Its founding “was in many ways an act of defiance, an elegant rebuttal to the idea that black people couldn’t or shouldn’t be educated,” she said. “Back then, people were hungry to learn.”

But Obama said too much of the black community has lost that desire. One in 3 African-Americans are dropping out of high school, she said, and only 1 in 5 between the ages of 25 and 29 has a bachelor’s degree. She also cited statistics that show college graduates make more money and live longer than high school dropouts.

Earlier in the week, the President offended some in the black community when he gave a speech on personal responsibility, which some detractors said they found demeaning.

As The College Fix reported:

“[Trevor] Coleman, a former speechwriter for former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, said … he was disappointed that Obama almost always defaults to the clean-up-your-act message when talking to predominantly black audiences.”

Despite the similar themes of the President’s and the First Lady’s speeches, so far, there have been no public complaints from prominent African-American commentators in response to the First Lady’s remarks.

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