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obamanut2012

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5. I am still shocked an HBCU did this

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Wed May 10, 2017, 02:23 PM

May 2017

Not just because WHAT TEH ACTUAL FUCK IT IS DEVOS, but also how Trump has said he is cutting out funding for HBCUs.

What THE HELL was BC's Admin thinking?!

And fuck that traitor Jackson -- he cannot withhold diplomas. Treating adults like they are tantrum-throwing children.

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Students Boo, Turn Their Backs on DeVos at Bethune-Cookman Speech [View all] dixiegrrrrl May 2017 OP

Thank you students! coco22 May 2017 #1

Darn!! Sophiegirl May 2017 #2

Just saw the video on CNN! sheshe2 May 2017 #10

K&R Solly Mack May 2017 #3

Was Thinking The Same, Solly ProfessorGAC May 2017 #15

The kind of empty threat that asserted his authority no matter how ineffectual. Solly Mack May 2017 #16

Yeah, Fair Enough! ProfessorGAC May 2017 #18

Being near Trump has become flat out toxic. NCTraveler May 2017 #4

I am still shocked an HBCU did this obamanut2012 May 2017 #5

Who invited her to give the commencement speech? Seems sgrange that she was there. Alice11111 May 2017 #30

The President, who is black obamanut2012 May 2017 #38

Maybe DT enlisted him too. A college Prez can't be Alice11111 May 2017 #40

Good job, students! You learned well. aikoaiko May 2017 #6

The president is an arse. demmiblue May 2017 #7

Would have been great ProudLib72 May 2017 #8

k+r Blue_Tires May 2017 #9

Video: demmiblue May 2017 #11

Beauteous! BlancheSplanchnik May 2017 #24

Here's brief video of them booing and turning their backs. Good on them for expressing suffragette May 2017 #12

Turn your chairs around, face the other direction, Ilsa May 2017 #13

Good! BumRushDaShow May 2017 #14

a real "after all I've done for you people" moment.. JHan May 2017 #17

Excellent reference. dixiegrrrrl May 2017 #19

I just don't get it...why would they give her anything? Why was she there? Alice11111 May 2017 #31

I actually think BCC's President is who did that obamanut2012 May 2017 #39

MIC DROP benld74 May 2017 #20

The Trump Team lives in a bubble. They should stay in the bubble until we pop it for them. Mr. Ected May 2017 #21

YAAAY STUDENTS!! We are with you!! BlancheSplanchnik May 2017 #22

++++ agree iluvtennis May 2017 #25

Their diplomas will be mailed to them??? Gamecock Lefty May 2017 #23

Any number of schools mail the diplomas already. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #26

Mine were all mailed to me...4, even JD and HS. Alice11111 May 2017 #32

If there are more than some number of students, PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #33

Maybe tbe Oscars should consider mailing to get it right Alice11111 May 2017 #36

Jackson should be grateful... Fritz Walter May 2017 #27

It would be worth getting a degree mailed.. whose Cha May 2017 #28

Yeah, some threat. cemaphonic May 2017 #29

That's what I don't get too, but thank you to the brave ones who turned away. Alice11111 May 2017 #37

good on the students fishwax May 2017 #34

WHY was she even invited in the first place? surely the admin could have found a suitable niyad May 2017 #35

+1000. nt ecstatic May 2017 #42

Had I been there Best_man23 May 2017 #41