Morehouse Students Turn Their Backs, Walk Out of Graduation as Joe Biden Gives Speech

Hans Blaster said:

eyeroll, SMH, eyeroll. It would be like visiting U. Michigan and not mentioning their most famous alum -- Gerald Ford.

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Is that the same reason Biden brought up George Floyd? Did George Floyd go to Morehouse? If not, what does a man killed in 2020 have to do with students graduating in 2024?

This is Joe Biden's Shtick. Go to a HBCU, talk about racism (despite being a racist himself), name drop as many famous black people as he can and remind everyone that he was Obama's vice president.

GoldenBoy89 said:

I’m just trying to draw a comparison between the two major candidates for the presidency this year. This is the American politics section, after all.

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The problem is that these attempts at comparisons often derail the thread from it's original topic. Which I sometimes suspect is the intention of some members.

GoldenBoy89 said:

You say Biden is pandering so I was curious what the ex president and current criminal defendant might have talked about at one of these colleges but it seems he’s never even been invited to speak at one.

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Start a thread about it. Then you can hear what I and others have to say.

Pommer said:

Man Running For President Says Things Deviously Calculated to get the Rubes to Vote for Him!​

Stop. The. Presses!

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Are you calling these graduates rubes?

"An unsophisticated person from a rural area; hick."

Pommer said:

He shouldn’t have mentioned the most famous graduate like he’s been forgotten already?

Yeah, that’d’ve played real good.

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What would have happened if Biden hadn't mentioned him.

Shows the disrespect of this generation.and what the parents are about.

MrMoe said:

Is that the same reason Biden brought up George Floyd? Did George Floyd go to Morehouse? If not, what does a man killed in 2020 have to do with students graduating in 2024?

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The controversial times coincided with the matriculation of these (now) graduates, four long years ago, it’s topical as they look back along their college career.
Zero points.

MrMoe said:

This is Joe Biden's Shtick. Go to a HBCU, talk about racism (despite being a racist himself), name drop as many famous black people as he can and remind everyone that he was Obama's vice president.

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Biden’s “campaigning wrong”?
sheesh.

MrMoe said:

What would have happened if Biden hadn't mentioned him.

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Oh, I don’t know, maybe charges that Biden “forgot” that MLK Jr went to Morehouse?
Who wouldn’t make a mention of the school’s star pupil? (Someone who “forgets”, that’s who!)

Pommer said:

The controversial times coincided with the matriculation of these (now) graduates,

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Yet he failed to bring up the most controversial incident of those times, the covid lockdowns. Massive oversight.

Pommer said:

four long years ago,

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Yes, four long years ago. Graduation ceremonies are about the future not the past.

Pommer said:

it’s topical as they look back along their college career.

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Not topical at all. It was four years in the past and George Floyd had no connection to the college whatsoever. The only reason I see to bring up the George Floyd incident is because George Floyd was black and Biden was speaking at an historically black college. In other words, race baiting.

Pommer said:

Zero points.

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Poor attempt to spin Biden's race baiting.

Pommer said:

Biden’s “campaigning wrong”?
sheesh.

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Biden Campaigning at all is wrong.

Pommer said:

Oh, I don’t know, maybe charges that Biden “forgot” that MLK Jr went to Morehouse?
Who wouldn’t make a mention of the school’s star pupil? (Someone who “forgets”, that’s who!)

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Jerry Seinfeld recently gave a graduation speech at Duke University. I didn't hear him mention one famous Duke alumni. As far as I know no one charged him for forgetting anyone. If Biden had not mentioned MLK the only ones who I see who would have had an issue would be those who obsess over race and racism and that would be those on the far left.

camille70 said:

Starting with Eisenhower, every president has made at least one commencement address in the first year of their presidency. Most gave only one or two addresses, but George H. W. Bush set the record by making six addresses in 1989. LBJ was runner-up with 5 in 1965.

Since 1948, incumbent presidents have always given at least one commencement address during the presidential election year except for 1972 (Nixon) and 1980 (Carter).

The earliest instance of a commencement address in our database is Theodore Roosevelt 1902 address at the Naval Academy—the most frequent commencement destination. The military academies account for 30% of presidential commencement addresses.



From: Presidential Commencement Addresses | The American Presidency Project

It also lists the number of commencement speeches given by each president.

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Wow, I never knew this. By the way, Obama made 26 commencement addresses over his 8 years in office. Hey, thanks for enlightening me on this.

From the source listed above by Camille70.

This is quite a desperate thread...

Just saying is all.

MrMoe said:

The problem is that these attempts at comparisons often derail the thread from it's original topic. Which I sometimes suspect is the intention of some members.

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No derail here. I’m discussing what you brought up in this thread which is the content of Biden’s speech and making a direct comparison to another presidential hopeful’s a speech in a similar setting but since Trump has never even been invited to speak to a graduating class of an HBCU, I guess that’s pretty much the end of the comparison.

Biden speaks at an HBCU and probably brought up his experiences during the civil rights movement and working in a black neighborhood when he was in college while Trump thinks his mugshot for trying to steal the election somehow connects him with black Americans.

I can see why you’d rather focus entirely on Biden instead.

Fantine said:

Just as border extremists here who use razor wire,

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I don't know if you're aware of this, but razor wire will only hurt you if you try to climb over and/or through it.

The IbanezerScrooge said:

Ooo! Do Harrison Butker now!

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Is Harrison Butler running for office somewhere that I'm unaware of?

Bradskii said:

This is quite a desperate thread...

Just saying is all.

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Something lemons something something lemonade.

MrMoe said:

Jerry Seinfeld recently gave a graduation speech at Duke University. I didn't hear him mention one famous Duke alumni. As far as I know no one charged him for forgetting anyone. If Biden had not mentioned MLK the only ones who I see who would have had an issue would be those who obsess over race and racism and that would be those on the far left.

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Not to mention that several of the graduates and students walked out when Seinfeld began his speech.

probinson said:

I don't know if you're aware of this, but razor wire will only hurt you if you try to climb over and/or through it.

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Warning: This "deterrent" could kill you. We'd rather see your corpse wash up than let you get into our country.

Fantine said:

Warning: This "deterrent" could kill you. We'd rather see your corpse wash up than let you get into our country.

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Again, only if you attempt to climb over and/or though it. Stay away from the razor wire (like you're supposed to), and there will be no resultant corpse.

Just to clarify, are you suggesting that deterrents should be easily circumvented?

GoldenBoy89 said:

No derail here. I’m discussing what you brought up in this thread which is the content of Biden’s speech and making a direct comparison to another presidential hopeful’s a speech in a similar setting but since Trump has never even been invited to speak to a graduating class of an HBCU, I guess that’s pretty much the end of the comparison.

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So you wanted to compare Biden's HBCU speech to a Trump HBCU speech. A speech you know doesn't exist because you admit he's never been invited to a HBCU, and you want me to believe you're not trying to derail the thread. What point were you even trying to make?

GoldenBoy89 said:

Biden speaks at an HBCU and probably brought up his experiences during the civil rights movement and working in a black neighborhood when he was in college

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Probably? Either he did or he didn't. He did talk about George Floyd. What does George Floyd have to do with young people graduating in 2024?

GoldenBoy89 said:

while Trump thinks his mugshot for trying to steal the election somehow connects him with black Americans.

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Black people themselves have said it. I can't find the original MSNBC video but at 4:30 time stamp of this video this black woman says:

"I've talked to many people who formerly identified as a Democrat they have changed their political persuasion to independent and they are looking forward to voting for Trump, because now they find something in common with a political candidate at that level"

The reporter replies: "When you say they find commonality, what is that commonality?"

"They have felt persecuted by the system of American Injustice and it's not a a stretch for them to think that Trump may be a victim as well."


The mugshot is a just a representation of that persecution.

GoldenBoy89 said:

I can see why you’d rather focus entirely on Biden instead.

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Biden is the subject of this thread. That's how threads work. Sorry.

SimplyMe said:

Not to mention that several of the graduates and students walked out when Seinfeld began his speech.

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Yes, a small group of pro-Palestinian protesters walked out before he even spoke a word.