Michele Norris
speaker
715 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Michele Norris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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how their values strayed very far from what they professed.
I think it's impossible to say that there were populists in rural America and the South and white America that really did believe in equality and justice.
for white folks and help to make progress in giving more people opportunity and not ignore the fact that that was to the exclusion of others.
And that's the kind of complexity that I hope people get a little bit of a sense of.
You want people to actually marinate that when they visit your center.
And the reason is this, because I think when you
understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don't think it makes you love it less.
I think it makes you love it more.
And I think it also makes you more resilient because then during periods like we're in right now, where for a lot of folks it's crazy and you feel despair and anger and
That perspective allows you to then say, OK, we've gone through crazy periods like this before.
We've gone through mean periods before.
It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we've been here before.
And then there's no reason to suggest that we can't get through this one either.
We have another hour of Hope Comes Home inside the Obama Presidential Center.
Stay with us.
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