DeVos' first commencement address - It did not go well.

[Anonymous]

HBCU grad and I'm in full support of the BCU students. There are a lot of places where you can expect people to basically bend over and take it when asked, your standard HBCU campus is NOT one of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it was a bad decision to have her speak. She isn't respected, nor is she a scholar in the field.

However, the students were very rude, too. I don't know much about this college to be honest - how active the student body is with regard to protest. But students should have held it together on that day. They may have made waves, but waves break at the shore and are soon forgotten.

So you say but scholars disagree with your sentiments.

https://cassiuslife.com/2922/bethune-cookman-graduates-open-letter/

I agree with pp. Simply because the faculty at this institution support the students in their rude protest, doesn’t make their actions appropriate. Perhaps it was the faculty there that encouraged the students to do this to begin with. That does not make it right.

If you'd bothered to read the Open Letter you'd see that the faculty who penned it expressing their admiration and support were NOT from Bethune-Cookman University. The faculty consisted of 200+ scholars from numerous academic institutions including Loyola University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Auburn University, North Carolina State University, Temple University, Spelman College, Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, the University of Connecticut, and many other schools.

We get it. A HBCU isn't worthy. What TTT state school did you attend?

I'm a Spelmanite, silly rabbit, I was smilling at the mention of my school.
LOLOL!
But I gotchu, the racist nutballs make us all crazy (THIS IS A SMILE)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it was a bad decision to have her speak. She isn't respected, nor is she a scholar in the field.

However, the students were very rude, too. I don't know much about this college to be honest - how active the student body is with regard to protest. But students should have held it together on that day. They may have made waves, but waves break at the shore and are soon forgotten.

So you say but scholars disagree with your sentiments.

https://cassiuslife.com/2922/bethune-cookman-graduates-open-letter/

I agree with pp. Simply because the faculty at this institution support the students in their rude protest, doesn’t make their actions appropriate. Perhaps it was the faculty there that encouraged the students to do this to begin with. That does not make it right.

If you'd bothered to read the Open Letter you'd see that the faculty who penned it expressing their admiration and support were NOT from Bethune-Cookman University. The faculty consisted of 200+ scholars from numerous academic institutions including Loyola University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Auburn University, North Carolina State University, Temple University, Spelman College, Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, the University of Connecticut, and many other schools.

We get it. A HBCU isn't worthy. What TTT state school did you attend?

I was thinking the same thing. I would send my DD to Spelman over almost any other school on that list.

DAMN YA'LL...I WAS SMILING ...SMILE-ING
I did go to Spelman.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it was a bad decision to have her speak. She isn't respected, nor is she a scholar in the field.

However, the students were very rude, too. I don't know much about this college to be honest - how active the student body is with regard to protest. But students should have held it together on that day. They may have made waves, but waves break at the shore and are soon forgotten.

So you say but scholars disagree with your sentiments.

https://cassiuslife.com/2922/bethune-cookman-graduates-open-letter/

I agree with pp. Simply because the faculty at this institution support the students in their rude protest, doesn’t make their actions appropriate. Perhaps it was the faculty there that encouraged the students to do this to begin with. That does not make it right.

In addition, a lot of employers will see these students as a legal risk. If they can behave this way towards an invited speaker, how will they behave in the workplace? Will they slight at something innocent and sue?

Employers are going to recognize their voices and faces from a crowd of hundreds?
What are they going to do, make them do a "Boo" test?!
'Leroy, now I'm going to close my eyes and I want you to yell, "BOO", loud as you can, like you are yelling at some random white lady"!
Da Fugggggg

[Anonymous]

Respect is earned.