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From Harvard to Wichita State, colleges cancel special ceremonies for graduates from marginalized backgrounds
NBC News via AOL ^ | May 29, 2025 | Claretta Bellamy

Posted on 06/01/2025 5:55:44 AM PDT by fwdude

Graduating students of color at Harvard University and other colleges across the country would end their semester by attending affinity graduation ceremonies — but this year, they had to organize the celebrations without the school’s financial backing.

Harvard, currently battling the Trump administration over a range of issues, halted all of its affinity ceremonies for students this year. Alumni stepped in to raise funds, and students scrambled to find new spaces.

Members of the Harvard Black Alumni Society raised $46,000 for this year’s event after the university announced April 28 that it would no longer fund the ceremonies.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: racism
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I guess segregation is bad, until it isn’t.
1 posted on 06/01/2025 5:55:44 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Everyone in the graduating class graduating all together? What’s the world coming to?


2 posted on 06/01/2025 6:06:30 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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Indeed.


3 posted on 06/01/2025 6:07:49 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Tax-chick

I know, it’s crazy, right?!


4 posted on 06/01/2025 6:08:04 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: fwdude

Nothing like marginalizing “marginalized” communities.


5 posted on 06/01/2025 6:10:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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How will they survive? It’ll be like the horrors of the 1980s or something.


6 posted on 06/01/2025 6:28:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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They sure didn’t care that they stopped graduations…proms…because of the lies of the left with covid.


7 posted on 06/01/2025 6:28:36 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. )
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Anyone who would believe this obvious bullcrap is a mental midget. 💩💩🙄

Geesh, how embarrassing.


8 posted on 06/01/2025 6:29:25 AM PDT by dforest
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See, no one ever needed to say “Blacks Only” or “Whites Only”.

They only needed to say “Marginalized People Only” and “Oppressors Only”.


9 posted on 06/01/2025 6:31:08 AM PDT by CodeToad
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I guess Graduation Ceremonies are separate, but equal


10 posted on 06/01/2025 6:38:16 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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I have to laugh at all of these places giving their “marginalized” students their “special” days. Black graduations, Hispanic graduations, poor person graduations…

These kids are going to be in for a shock when they enter the adult world and they discover that no one gives a shit whether they are black, Hispanic, rich or pooor…their employers will only care if they add value to the organization.


11 posted on 06/01/2025 6:39:56 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Can I go to an Oppressors only graduation because I’m tired of the hijinks and outbursts of the Marginalized during a formal graduation ceremony?


12 posted on 06/01/2025 6:42:43 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: fwdude

Victimhood. The beatitude of reprobates. It’s lazy, deceitful and evil. No wonder the left embraces it so completely.


13 posted on 06/01/2025 6:57:04 AM PDT by Kudsman (Cliff Note answer: because, DEMOCRATS. )
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Affinity graduations - for everyone except straight white people.

Only privileged Marxists could ever consider a Harvard grad “marginalized.”


14 posted on 06/01/2025 7:02:31 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington0 DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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Alumni stepped in to raise funds, and students scrambled to find new spaces.

Hope the White Alumni association was able to raise the funds for the White Heritage Graduation.

15 posted on 06/01/2025 7:03:58 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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“ Colleges cancel segregated ceremonies. Liberals outraged for victims forced to graduate with classmates they will someday work and live with..”


16 posted on 06/01/2025 7:17:15 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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The article makes more sense when ‘affinity’ and ‘special’ are replaced with ‘racist’, and ‘marginalized’ with ‘privileged’.


17 posted on 06/01/2025 7:53:33 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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LOL- i graduated from St John’s University in Jamaica Queens in 1986....we had as many black students as we did white students (and we all got along very well!!!)....

We had ONE graduation ceremony....not one for blacks and gays and this or that...


18 posted on 06/01/2025 7:55:24 AM PDT by God luvs America
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"From Harvard to Wichita State, colleges cancel special racist ceremonies for graduates from marginalized backgrounds"

There. Fixed it.

19 posted on 06/01/2025 7:57:44 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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Whaaaa! I didn’t get a special graduation!!!!


20 posted on 06/01/2025 8:18:24 AM PDT by bgill
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