So, it’s time to get this show on the road. So it is my pleasure to welcome to the stage someone who’s been an outstanding partner in the work that we’ve done – the co-chair of the PCAH, my dear friend, George Stevens. (Applause.)
(The program continues.)
Mrs. Obama: Oh, wow. All right, drop the mic. (Laughter.) You could tell they were serious, right? They came up, they took their time, they tuned their instruments. You were playing with the bottom of your thing, and – wow. (Laughter.)
You know, see, this is why we do what we do. Because if anybody were to walk past these kids on the street, they would make assumptions about what they could do and who they could be. And we do that all the time to each other and to our kids. We put them in boxes and in baskets and we place lids on them, and we don’t let them out because of our issues.
All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose. Imagine this talent bottled up in these kids unexplored, uninvested. There are millions of kids like this in this country who do not have the resources to become everything that they could be. And shame on us if we can’t do this better.
But fortunately, these programs are doing the job that sometimes the bigger society fails to do. And so we capture this magic in a bottle. You guys are phenomenal. And you’re very cute too. (Laughter and applause.)
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