Barack Obama Gives the Class of 2020 Advice for Shaping Their Future World in Uniting Speech
gives your graduation speech. ' star-studded virtual"Graduate Together" ceremony for the class of 2020 on Saturday night, the 44th president of the United States stepped up to the plate to deliver some uplifting words in these challenging times.
After all, the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing protocols have shuttered schools for months and put an end to traditional graduation ceremonies this year. Fortunately, the former president took the opportunity to acknowledge the challenges each graduate has faced thus far in their lifetime, comforted them about having to miss out on those graduation traditions and encouraged them as they head into the uncertain future.
In a lighthearted moment, the former commander-in-chief acknowledged the less fun elements of graduation ceremonies."Now, I'll be honest with you. The disappointments of missing a live graduation, those will pass pretty quick. I don't remember much of my own high school graduation. I know that not having to sit there and listen to a commencement speaker isn't all that bad. Mine usually go on way too long. Also, not that many people look great in those caps.
However, as he pointed out,"what remains true is that your graduation marks your passage into adulthood. The time when you begin to take charge of your own life. It's when you get to decide what's important to you—what kind of career you want to pursue, who you want to build a family with, the values you want to live by. And given the current state of the world, that may be kind of scary.
Acknowledging the many hardships caused by the pandemic, "you're going to have to grow up faster than some generations," Obama said."This pandemic has shaken up the status quo and laid bare a lot of our country's deep-seated problems. From massive economic inequality, to ongoing racial disparities, to a lack of basic healthcare for people who need it. It's woken a lot of young people up to the fact that the old ways of doing things just don't work.
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