In a recent speech at the Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle Obama compared her childhood experience in the 1970s to what immigrant families face in America today.

The former first lady recalled how she and her brother Craig Robinson moved to a white neighborhood in Chicago for better schools when she was little. Back then, she said the city’s South Side had “a million Craigs, Michelles and Baracks.”

“We were doing everything we were supposed to do — and better,” Michelle explained. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”

“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she said. “Because we’re no different from the immigrant families that are moving in today. … But because we can so easily wash over who we really were — because of the color of our skin, because of the texture of our hair — that’s what divides countries, the artificial things.”

She added, “There were no gang fights, no territorial battles. Yet, one by one, they packed their bags and they ran from us. You could feel people disinvesting in you. You could feel it in the schools.”

Watch the full talk, with her brother Craig, below: