Students boo Betsy DeVos as commencement speaker at historically black university

[ExodusNirvana]

A week after President Donald Trump suggested his administration might cut $25 million in capital funding to historically black colleges and universities, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told Bethune-Cookman University’s class of 2017 that she “is fully committed to your success” -- a line that was met by deafening boos from the students and guests.

DeVos’s commencement address for the Daytona Beach, Florida, school underlined the complicated relationship between the Trump administration and HBCUs, which educate roughly one in five black undergraduates. Her speech, in which she urged students to “embrace serving others with grace,” was repeatedly interrupted by loud booing; at one point, students turned their backs on the secretary. Omarosa Manigault, the former star of “The Apprentice” who has become Trump’s ambassador to black communities, was also jeered.

After last week’s threat of a funding cut, both the White House and DeVos issued statements reaffirming their commitment to HBCUs, and the school defended its choice by noting that it receives $4 million from the Education Department. In announcing DeVos as commencement speaker last week, the school compared her to its founder, civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, saying that DeVos’s “mission to empower parents and students resonates with the history and legacy of Dr. Bethune.”

DeVos Booed Loudly by Graduates at Historically Black College

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Check the sig

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I just read this I love it. Show this bytch that she ain't fooling anybody and that she is incompetent every time she appears in public

fukkin bytch

 

[the cac mamba]

betsy devos :scustrump:

 

[N.J.stan]

Who thought having her give a commencement speech was a good idea?

 

[tru_m.a.c]

In announcing DeVos as commencement speaker last week, the school compared her to its founder, civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, saying that DeVos’s “mission to empower parents and students resonates with the history and legacy of Dr. Bethune.”

 

[ORDER_66]

Who thought having her give a commencement speech was a good idea?

The Dean who She PAID off.... The fix was in the students see through this bullshyt...

 

[Pitfalls0117]

President threatened to withhold students degrees if they didn't stop jeering. What a fukking clown

 

[ORDER_66]

President threatened to withhold students degrees if they didn't stop jeering. What a fukking clown

I wish someone would have ran the fade with this old fool on site after graduation...

 

[N.J.stan]

President threatened to withhold students degrees if they didn't stop jeering. What a fukking clown

At the immediate loud jeer after he finished that statement

 

[el_oh_el]

Who thought having her give a commencement speech was a good idea?

Came in here to say exactly that!!

In announcing DeVos as commencement speaker last week, the school compared her to its founder, civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, saying that DeVos’s “mission to empower parents and students resonates with the history and legacy of Dr. Bethune.”

Super Saiyan level c00ning. That degree looking funny in the light

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Disgsuting :mjugh:

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Who thought having her give a commencement speech was a good idea?

That was my first thought.

 

[88m3]

In announcing DeVos as commencement speaker last week, the school compared her to its founder, civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, saying that DeVos’s “mission to empower parents and students resonates with the history and legacy of Dr. Bethune.”

 

[str8cashhomie87]

Who ever invited her is a damn fool. Trump is discussing cutting funding to HBCU's and you bring in one of his lackeys to speak at graduation? That's a slap in the face to the students and the faculty.