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1 posted on 05/30/2007 11:14:55 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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I’m ‘speechless’


2 posted on 05/30/2007 11:19:20 AM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (The only thing I love more than my FreeperFriends is my God, Family and Country !!!!)
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Nikki Giovanni

She doesn't look Italian.


Not much of a master of the language, either.

3 posted on 05/30/2007 11:21:49 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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"Professor Giovanni." What a pathetic joke.

If that constitutes poetry, then I'm William F******* Shakespeare.

5 posted on 05/30/2007 11:25:27 AM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("left unchecked, Saddam Hussein...will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton)
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The only place this kind of garbage gets supported is in our universities. Hard earned money pays for this “punk” to draw a paycheck every two weeks and thumb her nose at the world.


8 posted on 05/30/2007 11:26:51 AM PDT by caisson71
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‘We are...Virginia Tech!’

Professor Giovanti at the ceremony after the VT shootings.

Yes, Professor, we know, we know.


10 posted on 05/30/2007 11:27:48 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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Just to clarify: this poem isn't the one written for the euolgy. I'm sure FReepers figured that out, but the wording in the article wasn't as clear as it should have been.

Giovanni's eulogy can be read here. Of course, it doesn't only focus on the tragedy at hand, but laments babies with AIDS, elephants killed for their ivory, and others.

12 posted on 05/30/2007 11:30:48 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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I thought this was disgusting and then I read the whole article. It is a good read and is now bookmarked.

Hate Speech vs Free Speech

Why is it only the left is allowed to decide which is which? Why is it that it is ok to slanderously slam Christians and Jews, but ‘sin’ to point out that violent world conquest is written into the hadiths and koran?

Why is it ok for the BATF to “profile” “terrorists” in the 90s as anyone who is a Christian and believes in the Constitution but profiling Islamic terrorists and tracking them in the USA is the ultimate in ‘wrongs’?

So many ‘whys’ and only one answer: Because the left says so.

13 posted on 05/30/2007 11:31:18 AM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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Giovanni comments on Cho, the killer:

“I know we’re talking about a troubled youngster and crap like that, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings; troubled youngsters drink and drive,” Giovanni said. “I’ve taught troubled youngsters. I’ve taught crazy people. It was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak.”


14 posted on 05/30/2007 11:32:05 AM PDT by donna (They hand off my culture & citizenship to criminals & then call me racist for objecting?)
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15 posted on 05/30/2007 11:32:56 AM PDT by pabianice
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I can feel the love.


23 posted on 05/30/2007 12:15:06 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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She did not deliver this as a eulogy, SeaFoodGumbo. How
could you have made such a mistake? Hate?

And if you actually read the poem, you might see that it
is not about killing people. Here’s the heart of the poem:

“Can you kill the nigger in you
Can you make your nigger mind die
Can you kill your nigger mind”

It has more to do with black people rejecting the
image that white people have of them as “the nigger”, and
rejecting the image they have of themselves as “the nigger”.
One part of being a nigger is that you never kill a white
man, even if he was killing your family.

It also has a little bit of the Sadean Woman in it (as in
the Marquis de Sade). The Marquis asserted that when men
and women are incarcerated in prison at the same rates, for
the severity of crimes, you will know that the female sex
has achieved equality with the male. I think black on black
crime is still much more common than black on white crime.

The author of the poem threw Cho out of her class. If
everyone had done the same thing, he might not have had the
opportunity to kill so many innocent people.


26 posted on 05/30/2007 1:01:41 PM PDT by prodigals son
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Need I guess—she’s a democrat (of course??). Yeah. Lot of love in there. Not a real poet—she seems to enjoy a position because of her race. Is it not true? Yeah, probably. Such dribble. Such adolescence in her “work.” Laughable. I didn’t have the heart to contact her via the website... a real poet may have written this:

He Did

The great Israeli, the great Professor Liviu Librescu did,

Working one minute, knowing the next, he waited not, he did.

When a matter of hell was on them with shot and fire,

When the shooting started, the loathing, evil desire,

When the children of Virginia, freedom land screamed,

And were cruelly taken, the teacher quickly deemed,

Not in my class! You cannot have a single one for,

You must go through me and I am strong, vile hate!

Do you hear me now! Leave my place, take no more!

I spit in your face! Not one shall you add to your slate.

The professor did what none but the bravest, I bid,

And only the strongest, God-filled can do. He did.

Of those very few among us like he, the truly tall.

He taught them well then kicked that fearsome wall,

Was a shield, helping them flee man’s darkest fall.

He went down plainly knowing his life was o’er.

He is a hero. He is that but far, faraway more.

God bless the great professor. God forever bless him.

God bless his children, his wife… his life. I’chaim!

He’s surely with God now. He’s done with me and you.

Kaddish... Pray to God for a best man, the man Librescu.


28 posted on 05/30/2007 1:14:52 PM PDT by BamaAndy (Professor Librescu is an American hero.)
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Or this:

America’s Peace

What have you, would you have,
Fatherless child,
Made from your own device, mind,
Out of the wild?
Is she not worth your time, your effort,
Your loving keep?
Is she worth your sweat, silver,
Your conscience torn deep,
To defend this land, the mass of a new,
Different face?
Say war is never ever an answer
… Nor is it our place;
Easily it’s fraught with wasted lives,
Futile bile.
To do nothing is one answer,
Give up the gentle smile,
Of freedom and peace by meeting,
Those who would take,
And keep longer than arms length,
A countenance make.
But what to do when violence comes,
Presses hard,
To kill your close ones and hasten to slave,
To quickly retard,
Your life, express his own hate,
For is it not you that marred,
The world he swallowed, his own life,
His earthly ward?

Peace a fleeting place,
Never a long-stay guest,
Rests uneasy, hate fills the swirl.
Comes war—a mad, sad, fearful,
Tearful joiner of motives,
The many thieves,
Buried in, infecting each heart,
Taking each mind away easy,
Mans worst unfurled.
It steals precious time, precious love,
Precious life in harmony,
—Hope surely leaves.

Cry, cry loud!
Forever shout it out and implore all,
That is above to render,
Help for all on this earthly tether of heartache and pain,
So no one must kill.
Cry loud! Cry out more for all men—
Come to love as written by the sender.
Stay away the Satan invented by,
Each man for his own sake! Must the shrill,
Must the shallow, every fool, every man,
Any man, have his own way?
Or can we live in peace longer,
Than a mere single blink in a single day?


29 posted on 05/30/2007 1:15:42 PM PDT by BamaAndy (Professor Librescu is an American hero.)
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She sucks.


30 posted on 05/30/2007 1:16:10 PM PDT by BamaAndy (Professor Librescu is an American hero.)
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It all depends on who you are. Certain protected groups can say and do anything and get away with it.
Others, I.E. true conservatives or Christians, don’t even have to do anything to be attacked and denounced for their “hate speech”.


31 posted on 05/30/2007 1:21:55 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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Seriously sick later pingout.


34 posted on 05/30/2007 6:30:33 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Only those who thirst for the truth will know the truth.)
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Double standards....again. A racist is a racist. Hate is hate. No excuses can justify it. If an old sports commentator can get fired and have his reputation ruined for saying “nappy” then people like this should be convicted of a hate crime, jailed or heavily fined. How far are we (society) going to let this go?


36 posted on 05/31/2007 7:30:15 AM PDT by oldamerica rebel ( tttt It never hurts to have some faith ttttt)
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