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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Embrace your blackness?"  Ha!  Sort of like he does....???[/quote]

How much shit would have hit the fan had Bush spoken at Liberty U and told the crowd there to "Embrace their whiteness"?[/quote]I will interpret for you since your objective is obvious.  Embracing your blackness means regardless of everything negative said about African-Americans (i.e. responsible for all the ills of the country, academically inferior, incapable of leadership, etc), you can be proud of yourself and your accomplishments.  Embrace your ethnicity proudly and without shame just as others do and have done.

Based on comments I read on DCUM, including yours PP, I'd say the President's comment was spot on.  [/quote]

+1 . As someone who was there, they were spot on and EXACTLY what those graduates needed to hear as they head out into the world.  He was essentially saying "don't let anyone steal your joy and diminish what you have done." It was a very POSITIVE message and exactly what I would have expected the POTUS to say at a HBCU commencement.  Hell, at my undergrad commencement at a PWI, the commencement speaker said basically the same damn thing.  No outrage at all. Only those who either hate POTUS or hate AA's would find fault with what he said.  And people act like this is the first speech like this he has given - it is not.

And anyone comparing Howard U to Liberty U is, let me just say, not well informed. [/quote]

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