きっと、とても悲しく悔しいにちがいない。８年間の努力を思うと・・・。アメリカの良心、良識、プライドがゆがむ。でも、それもみなあの国の人々が選択したこと。また次は、ミシェルさんのような人が戻ってくるだろう。そう願って。

私のFaceBookの友人たちが一斉に自分のポストに紹介した1/6のスピーチだ。

In Tearful Finale, Michelle Obama Says, ‘I Hope I’ve Made You Proud’

　　　Michelle Obama Speaks of Hope

On Friday, Mrs. Obama delivered her final official address as first lady. The speech honored school counselors from across the United States.

WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama fought back tears on Friday during her last public remarks as first lady, overcome with emotion as she reflected on her eight years in the White House and delivered an intensely personal message of empowerment through education, one of her cherished causes.

“Being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life,” Mrs. Obama told an audience of educators in the East Room, her voice catching as her eyes shone with tears. “And I hope I’ve made you proud.”

Her 21-minute speech, an appeal for hope and inclusiveness as the salves to the forces of fear and division, carried an implicit rebuke to President-elect Donald J. Trump, whom she did not name, delivered with the quiet intensity and aspirational language that came to mark her appearances on the campaign trail last year.

“Our glorious diversity — our diversities of faiths, and colors, and creeds — that is not a threat to who we are; it makes us who we are,” Mrs. Obama said.

“So to the young people here and the young people out there: Do not ever let anybody make you feel like you don’t matter or like you don’t have a place in our American story because you do, and you have a right to be exactly who you are,” she added.

The speech was a striking finale for Mrs. Obama, once a reluctant political spouse who disdained the partisan fray, but who evolved over eight years into a popular and high-profile first lady, spending the final months of her husband’s presidency as a uniquely powerful voice for Democrats against Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

She is so beautiful!!

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