Transcript of Obama's remarks at Howard

[Anonymous]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/obamas-howard-commencement-transcript-222931

I'm looking forward to the Obamas leaving office and speaking much more candidly about the state of race relations in the US. He really does demonstrate a remarkably nuanced view, which I feel he often had to suppress as POTUS. He and Michelle are still quite young, and I anticipate that January 2017 will not be the end of their public leadership.

[Anonymous]

OK remarks. Very few people are paying attention to what he says at this point now, I imagine. Same goes for any president at the end of his second term.

[Anonymous]

Large Financial corporation that i work at will hire hundreds of H1Bs this year but will never interview a single Howard computer science graduate What a culture we live in

[Anonymous]

He is preaching to the choir and what they want to hear. He does not get it. President Clinton did get it.

[Anonymous]

I am watching a clip of the speech on MSNBC now.

Why do Democrat politicians speak like Baptist preachers to black audiences?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am watching a clip of the speech on MSNBC now.

Why do Democrat politicians speak like Baptist preachers to black audiences?

And why does Republican Trump speak like a roaring lion throwing raw meat to white audiences? Don't give it if you can't take it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am watching a clip of the speech on MSNBC now.

Why do Democrat politicians speak like Baptist preachers to black audiences?

And why does Republican Trump speak like a roaring lion throwing raw meat to white audiences? Don't give it if you can't take it.

Well, in all fairness, Trump doesn't really speak. One would need to make sense for that to happen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am watching a clip of the speech on MSNBC now.

Why do Democrat politicians speak like Baptist preachers to black audiences?

And why does Republican Trump speak like a roaring lion throwing raw meat to white audiences? Don't give it if you can't take it.

Well, in all fairness, Trump doesn't really speak. One would need to make sense for that to happen

+1, Lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Large Financial corporation that i work at will hire hundreds of H1Bs this year but will never interview a single Howard computer science graduate What a culture we live in

Not sure how you make the leap between your workplace's attitude and the rest of society. Why do you think your employer acts that way?

[Anonymous]

Hidden within the text was a flimsy call to students not to shut down campus speakers with whom they disagree. Better than nothing, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Large Financial corporation that i work at will hire hundreds of H1Bs this year but will never interview a single Howard computer science graduate What a culture we live in

Exactly. He's done NOTHING to help poor black CITIZENS. Nor did he ever plan to.

[Anonymous]

"Embrace your blackness?" Ha! Sort of like he does....???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Large Financial corporation that i work at will hire hundreds of H1Bs this year but will never interview a single Howard computer science graduate What a culture we live in

Not sure how you make the leap between your workplace's attitude and the rest of society. Why do you think your employer acts that way?

Probably because they can get much better candidates cheaper through an H1B.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Embrace your blackness?" Ha! Sort of like he does....???

How much shit would have hit the fan had Bush spoken at Liberty U and told the crowd there to "Embrace their whiteness"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Large Financial corporation that i work at will hire hundreds of H1Bs this year but will never interview a single Howard computer science graduate What a culture we live in

Not sure how you make the leap between your workplace's attitude and the rest of society. Why do you think your employer acts that way?

Probably because they can get much better candidates cheaper through an H1B.

Cheaper is the key word. Not better.