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University of Florida Apologizes After Black Graduates Were Manhandled at Commencement [Cucks]
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Posted on 05/07/2018 6:27:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Several African American graduates at the University of Florida are speaking out after a white faculty member forcibly rushed them off stage at one of the school's commencement ceremonies on Saturday. The students said they were observing a long-held tradition among black fraternities and "strolling" after getting their college degrees when the usher grabbed them and roughly shoved them along.

University of Florida President W. Kent Fuchs apologized after videos of the incidents went viral online.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: education; florida; highereducation; race; uf; weak
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To: SoFloFreeper

Going to my nephew’s graduation on Saturday. He’s graduating with an Electrical/ Computer Engineering dual degree from a school whose name ends in “IT”. Don’t think they’ll be much mugging, clowning and disrespecting going on at commencement. I could be proven wrong but I doubt it.


21 posted on 05/07/2018 7:37:02 AM PDT by slimjim12
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To: sphinx

I also missed my graduation. I had a letter from the dean of the school of engineering and everything. It was the ultimate cut.

Time was a wastin..... My wife and I had to get married and start new jobs 400 miles apart in a very short time the first weeks of June and my graduation ceremony just didn’t have the priority.


22 posted on 05/07/2018 7:43:40 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: SoFloFreeper

I live in a culturally diverse community.

I’ve had to tolerate this kind of crap a few times regarding my kids. At least my kids see how animals behave. They are not normal, they are not like us.
For the 5percent that are normal, must be pretty embarrassing


23 posted on 05/07/2018 7:51:55 AM PDT by Professional
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To: slimjim12

Oh, the quota system assured that the clowns will be there. Just you wait. And realize they were all admitted gratis


24 posted on 05/07/2018 7:53:33 AM PDT by Professional
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To: bigbob

“Look at me, I’m special! Why? Because I’m BLACK!!!! “

Recall attending son’s at Gainesville....Largest group getting degrees was the “Communications Degree”....Watching/listening made it clear that the degree meant they finally learned to read and write.
Smallest group was the PhD recipients of which our son was one (Math)....Clapping yes, screaming NO !


25 posted on 05/07/2018 7:56:10 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: marktwain

“You go forward with your tradition, and we will proceed with ours.”

Two thumbs up, a perfect response.


26 posted on 05/07/2018 8:13:23 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: SoFloFreeper
The students said they were observing a long-held tradition among black fraternities and "strolling" after getting their college degrees when the usher grabbed them and roughly shoved them along.

It's telling that these "graduates" don't know the difference between an usher and a professor in a doctoral gown.

27 posted on 05/07/2018 8:25:34 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

When you cross the stage to get our diploma at UF. Is that wrong?
28 posted on 05/07/2018 8:27:14 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: sphinx
Having been to several of these Graduations that have a sizable number of “minorities” in attendance, I can tell you that it is an embarrassment and disgrace as to the behavior of these so called “young Adults”. The antics and antisocial behavior of the “Graduates” is more like the behavior of some tribal species of Anthropoids on a National Geographic TV special. Having to sit through 2 hrs or more or screaming, whistling, shouting riotous noise only intterupted by the jumping, dancing and arm flapping gave me the incentive to remove myself as far from these denizens of my hometown as I could. I now reside in a town with 00.1 % minorities , Heaven on Earth!
29 posted on 05/07/2018 8:28:23 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: rigelkentaurus

The fruity celebration chest slapping and swishy dancing is a huge reason I can’t watch the NFL. The players can’t even police themselves, they had to come up with lame rules to slow it down some.

Freegards


30 posted on 05/07/2018 8:32:27 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: SoFloFreeper

My tribe in the south had traditions too

Let’s bring them back, it’d do wonders for manners for blacks and whites

After all they were traditions right


31 posted on 05/07/2018 8:34:34 AM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young buck goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: sphinx

Only a top few should receive on stage. It should also be blank with the real one put in the mail. Don’t follow proper decorum it might not come.


32 posted on 05/07/2018 8:36:48 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: rlmorel

These are likely 23-24 years olds....my dad was a fighter pilot by then and my mom was on base toting me around as a toddler

They are not kids technically though admittedly now anyone under 35 is a kid to me


33 posted on 05/07/2018 8:37:02 AM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Another tradition is involuntary branding/tattooing.

Next time you watch a football game, including games involving UF grads (Emmitt Smith was one) you may see a nice big Omega or Sigma-shaped scar on the upper arm, placed there courtesy of a hot wire hanger.

We have universities throwing the book at fraternities and sororities for having harmless ‘Taco Tuesday’ or other themed events.

But black Greek system members have and continue to practice some of the most brutal hazing and rituals. It’s an open secret on many campuses and many grads/alumni speak about it years later.

Their punishment: none.

I said irony was thin on the ground but not in this instance. One might think a group so aggrieved about slavery ie being owned as chattel that they would oppose any and all attempts at being branded or marked.


34 posted on 05/07/2018 8:42:01 AM PDT by relictele
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To: bert; sphinx

Missed my graduation ceremony, too, as I actually graduated and got my Army commission in December. I was on active duty at the Field Artillery School and preparing to go to my first duty station in West Germany. I had what I wanted and didn’t need the ceremony.


35 posted on 05/07/2018 8:47:24 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: relictele
One might think a group so aggrieved about slavery ie being owned as chattel that they would oppose any and all attempts at being branded or marked.

One might think a group so aggrieved about genocide would oppose any all attempts to facilitate abortion...
36 posted on 05/07/2018 8:48:14 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Josa

On Friday, I’m going to be screaming right along with them.


37 posted on 05/07/2018 8:52:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: wardaddy

I had to laugh reading your post...the older I get, the more the “young adults” look like kids to me too.

Your post is interesting, and bears on how things have changed.

I was looking at my Dad’s records, and he was a 19 year old ensign graduating from a V-12 program in 1945. In less than two years, he was the Post Commander for the local VFW (He was in the Naval Reserve) and when the Korean War came, he made the leap to the Regular Navy and was over in Korea.

How different from our lives were our father’s lives. Granted, I was still in the USN at 21, but man...my dad was off and running. Married my mom a couple of years later...


38 posted on 05/07/2018 8:53:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: sphinx
The degree still counts.

Really? You think so?

Many college graduates are illiterate, have no work ethic and have no idea how to behave in a civilized society. That's because these kids spent four years partying and downloading assigned papers from the internet. Exams? You've got to be kidding.

The degree no longer counts for much.

39 posted on 05/07/2018 8:53:43 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: SoFloFreeper

There were white graduates who did the same thing, and they were treated exactly the same.


40 posted on 05/07/2018 9:02:07 AM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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