Posted on 04/17/2007 5:52:13 PM PDT by subbob
“We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. WE are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to know when to cry and sad enough to know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech. We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did not deserve it but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, but neither do the invisible children walking the night to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Appalachian infant in the killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy. We are Virginia Tech. The Hokier Nation embraces our own with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid. We are better than we think, not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imagination and the possibility we will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears, through all this sadness. We are the Hokies. We will prevail, we will prevail. We are Virginia Tech. "
she’s a real piece of work
When you mine for coal in West Virginia (where she is most likely referring to), you can destabilize the ground and cause settling of the soil which can be a hazzard to buildings. Not exactly on the same level a threat as, say, global warming. Or killer asteroids. Or Duke Lacrosse players. Or Karl Rove (insert scary music here....).
But you are completely right to thing this is very strange. This woman is obviously a committed leftist and decided to hijack this ceremony to air her grievances about all kinds of crap nobody at VT has any input, control or ability to remedy.
Exactly. The rally cheer at the end seemed inappropriate for a solemn occasion a little more than 24 hours after the massacre.
Yes, indeed. We Republicans love to kill babies in their cribs.
OH, no.....WAIT. It's liberals who want to slaughter them before they're even born......
I was really hoping her speech was going to be good LOL
It just went from bad to worse and it had no heart
she did not even believe her own BS!
Her politically wacko speech was way out of line, but her rallying the students and making them feel 'normal' for a moment served a good purpose.............IMO.
Profound. Let me think about it for a minute. Ok, I’m done.
Talk about destabilization! He's the king!
I don’t know who she is, but I loved her short, nappy blond hair.
” She disgraced the dedication of a monument in Cincinnati last year. She is a hater “
She was happy that Tiger lost the Masters and called him “that little Negro.”
She has called President Bush a mass murderer and war criminal.
Imbecilic.
NIKKI GIOVANNI was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her sister spent their summers with their grandparents in Knoxville, and she graduated with honors from Fisk University, her grandfather’s alma mater, in 1968; after graduating from Fisk, she attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and within the next year published a second book, thus launching her career as a writer. Early in her career she was dubbed the “Princess of Black Poetry,” and over the course of more than three decades of publishing and lecturing she has come to be called both a “National Treasure” and, most recently, one of Oprah Winfrey’s twenty-five “Living Legends.”
Many of Giovanni’s books have received honors and awards. Her autobiography, Gemini, was a finalist for the National Book Award; Love Poems, Blues: For All the Changes, and Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea were all honored with NAACP Image Awards. Blues: For All the Changes reached #4 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list, a rare achievement for a book of poems. Most recently, her children’s picture book Rosa, about the civil rights legend Rosa Parks, became a Caldecott Honors Book, and Bryan Collier, the illustrator, was given the Coretta Scott King award for best illustration. Rosa also reached #3 on The New York Times Bestseller list.
Giovanni’s honors and awards have been steady and plentiful throughout her career. The recipient of some twenty-five honorary degrees, she has been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, and Ebony Magazine. She was tapped for the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame and named an Outstanding Woman of Tennessee. Giovanni has also received Governor’s Awards from both Tennessee and Virginia. She was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and she has also been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and has received Life Membership and Scroll from The National Council of Negro Women. A member of PEN, she was honored for her life and career by The History Makers. She has received the keys to more than two dozen cities. A scientist who admires her work even named a new species of bat he discovered for her!
The author of some 30 books for both adults and children, Nikki Giovanni is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
A female caller called in to Savage’s show tonight and mentioned that remark against Blackwell.
Now, now. This is "art".
Perhaps... but it could have waited a few days.
LOL...it not only went waaaaaaaay over my head...but when she ran back on the stage for an encore ovation...I was really disgusted.
I think the kids responded to the 'cheer' for VT more than the message she was trying to give through her little poem. But what do I know (shrug)
:)
...the Appalachian infant in the killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized...
So...this has been happening a lot lately?
“Look here, steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, then I wish for coffee.”— Punch caption, 1902.
Add sadness to even more sadness.
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