FROM CHARLES BARKLY TO PRESIDENT OBAMA ------> NO TIME 4 EXCUSES TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY _________________ President Obama drew on his own experience growing up as a black man in America to tell the graduates before him that theres no time for excuses, saying that whatever difficulties theyve had to slog through, they pale in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured and overcame.br /br /We know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices, Mr. Obama told the roughly 500 graduates of the all male historically black college founded in Atlanta, Georgia, shortly after the end of the Civil War. Growing up, I made a few myself, and I have to confess, sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. But one of the things youve learned over the last four years is that theres no longer any room for excuses.br /br /Not because racism and discrimination no longer exist, the president added. We know thats still out there. Its just that in todays hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world, with a billion young people from China and India and Brazil entering the global workforce alongside you many of them who started with a lot less than you did nobody is going to give you anything you havent earned https://youtube/watch?v=5wiWHX-VaUY
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