Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that
Michelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.
At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum. During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”
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