Former first lady Michelle Obama said she is 'exhausted and frustrated' in a lengthy statement addressing the ongoing unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by police
Washington Former first lady Michelle Obama said Friday she is"exhausted and frustrated" in a lengthy statement addressing the ongoing unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by police.
"These past few months, I've been thinking a lot about what our kids are seeing every day in this country -- the lack of empathy, the division stoked in times of crisis, the age-old and systemic racism that's been so prominent this summer," she wrote. "Sometimes they see it on the news. Sometimes they see it from the White House Rose Garden. And sometimes they see it from the back seat of a car.
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