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Students boo Betsy DeVos as commencement speaker at historically black university
Washington Post ^ | May 10, 2017 | By Susan Svrluga and Lori Rozsa

Posted on 05/10/2017 12:23:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Animals.. but most animals have manners when domesticated.


21 posted on 05/10/2017 1:19:33 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The administration of this Historically Black University gave Betsy DeVos an honorary degree for a reason!! Students and alums who dissed Ms. DeVos (as do most benighted Dims and liberals) should have learned why the administration did so, and either listened to her with respect or stayed away from the ceremony!!!!

Their performance says bad things about THEM—NOT Ms. DeVos!!!!

By the way, Twitter has become a cesspool of disgusting, lowlife messages—mostly perpetrated by Dims and leftists!!! I got little response to the important business message I posted earlier this week—I guess it wasn’t disgusting and political enough!!! In contrast, I got a great response on LinkedIn—much better than expected!!!!


22 posted on 05/10/2017 1:20:03 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Something to remember when those saccharine commercials for the United Negro College Fund ask for your donations and claim “I’m your dividend.”


23 posted on 05/10/2017 1:20:03 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Regardless numerous sincere attempts to educate or encourage some people to want to better themselves or their situation, you can show the horse the water hole. You can't make the horse drink. Facts is facts.

If you're born a leopard, you'll die a leopard. Painting stripes on you won't make you a tiger.

24 posted on 05/10/2017 1:22:43 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Still not tired of winning---beeyotch!" ;^)
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To: Honorary Serb
By the way, Twitter has become a cesspool of disgusting, lowlife messages—mostly perpetrated by Dims and leftists!!!

I "deleted" my Fakebook account four years ago and do NO social media other than Freerepublic.

25 posted on 05/10/2017 1:23:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Honorary Serb
Students and alums who dissed Ms. DeVos ... should have learned

Learned? I doubt much actual learning goes on in this esteemed bastion of academic excellence.

26 posted on 05/10/2017 1:26:29 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That Black society is no longer an American society

It leaves many people with black skin in a situation where they must wonder..... “Am I black or am I American?”


27 posted on 05/10/2017 1:29:15 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THey’ve been taught all kinds of PC crap, but no manners.


28 posted on 05/10/2017 1:29:59 PM PDT by EDINVA
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....Students and alums who dissed Ms. DeVos should have learned why the administration..gave Betsy DeVos an honorary degree....

They only had to learn ONE LITTLE THING!! If they couldn’t do it on their own, they could have asked a professor or administrator! Surely a 22-year-old about to graduate from college—even the dimmest and dumbest of the lot—could have done as much!!!!

Of course, if they were PAID to diss Betsy DeVos, that’s different! But then we need to think about the curse of the “30 pieces of silver”! That’s not a good way to begin one’s life after college!!!!


29 posted on 05/10/2017 1:46:37 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb
I appreciate your frustration. Really.

Two points to consider:

1) Half the population is below average.

2) The purpose of modern education is to indoctrinate people into non-thinking. "Learning" has little to do with it.

3) "Historically Black Colleges" really aren't the top shelf of higher education.

They may have been paid to diss Ms. DeVos ... but I consider it highly likely that they were programmed to do so (even before they arrived at this college), and no payment was required.

30 posted on 05/10/2017 1:51:48 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: NorthMountain

I love how you said “Two points to consider” and then listed three.

FReepers are always good for a mix of intelligent commentary and humor.


31 posted on 05/10/2017 2:08:16 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Two Kids' Dad
That's what happens when you're writing stream of consciousness, with no editor. In this case (2) and (3) above started out as one point, and then I thought they should be separated. I would do well to phrase the post "some points to consider" ...

It's also why I don't beat up on Joe Biden (or George Bush, or Dan Quayle) as much as some folks do. Extemporaneous public speaking (or typing) is a hazardous activity.

32 posted on 05/10/2017 2:12:41 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Now ... any thoughts on the actual content of my post?


33 posted on 05/10/2017 2:13:07 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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"Now ... any thoughts on the actual content of my post?"

Nah - it was just that counting thing!

34 posted on 05/10/2017 2:20:21 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Psalm 73
Armaments 2:18-21

"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."[

35 posted on 05/10/2017 2:27:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My what a wonderful culture they have there.


36 posted on 05/10/2017 2:40:34 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, of course! She should speak in Blackface.


37 posted on 05/10/2017 2:52:34 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Devos must be a masochist.

She’s really kinky.


38 posted on 05/10/2017 2:57:23 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: NorthMountain
Ahh, a John Cleese devotee?
I changed my Windows log-in sound to a Fawlty Towers snippet.
39 posted on 05/10/2017 3:06:08 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: NorthMountain

The students—even the “below average” ones—had the opportunity to know who invited Ms. DeVos—and why they should listen to her respectfully!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/4/edison-jackson-bethune-cookman-u-president-defends/

By the way—I think that even graduating Harvard students would have treated Ms. DeVos shamefully—maybe even worse that these Black students did!! But the feminazi President of Harvard—who is remaining in her position way beyond her shelf-life—would NEVER have invited her!!!!


40 posted on 05/10/2017 3:14:42 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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