Bates 1 Michael Bates
Professor
English
10 February 2014

Summary of " Remarks to the NAACP National Convention" In Remarks to the NAACP National Convention, Michelle Obama states it's the parents responsibility to fight childhood obesity.She begins by stating the mission of the
NAACP then gets into some problems occuring in African American culture. She then briefly says that although the NAACP has accomplished a lot, many African American children attend crumbling schools a great number of their families are "barely scraping by"(Obama 419). She also states that in America "one in three children is overweight or obese"(Obama 420)

Then she begins to talk about how the way we live used to be different In the past. She claims that kids used to walk to and from neighborhood schools. She also says that when she was younger schools "had recess twice a day and gym class twice a week like it or not"(Obama 421). Next she briefly speaks of the different eating habits kids and families had in the past. She shared her family rarely ate out and that they "never ate anything fancy, but the portion sizes were reasonable"(423).

After she finished speaking about the eating habits of the past, she then discussed the lifestyles of children today. She says that many children "can't attend neighborhood schools or don't"(423). Plus many kids dont have schools within reasonable walking distance so instead they must have there parents take them or ride the bus. She also states that "recess and gym class have been slashed because of budget cuts"(423).
Obama claims because of safety concerns parents will turn to safer alternatives of after school play like television as opposed to outside activities. She also claims "for many folks, those nutritious family meals are a thng of the past"(423). Some reasons she shares are that parents