Chicago, it’s good to be home!
Michelle and I built the Obama Presidential Center to be a place where people of all ages can learn, play, and work – and we can't wait to welcome you all later this week!
Plies dropped a verse on Spend Dat. He said “I ain’t buying a bitch a purse, that’s lil boy shit. I’ma send ya kids to college, I do raw shit.”
That’s the Plies I remember.
Some are seeing him being alive to recreate this as inspiring, but the fact that he IS still alive shows how recent those events truly were. And yet here we are…
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.
🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.
there has quite literally NEVER been a question in my mind as to whether her mic was on. 😭 there are a LOT of singers that will make you wonder but Tasia ain’t never been one of em.