PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TO PANDER (SPEAK) AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT
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It was actually a fire speech. He didn’t stumble and said some good shit. Poor Dr. Thomas though, he was wobbling and breathing so hard I thought he was having a stroke.
Dr. Thomas is the president at Morehouse?
My brother was there giving me the play by play. Heard it was good.
They were streaming it on Twitter. I’m going to check it out later
David Thomas.
On another note, the much hyped protest was a bust. About five dudes turned their back to Biden, that’s it. Out of a class of 415. There were some middle eastern looking folks outside the campus with signs and flags and shit, but they looked shook. They didn’t want no smoke with all those black Grandmas, Mamas, cousins, uncles that flew/drove there to watch they baby walk the stage. It would have been like that Alabama Riverboat shit.
Let The HBCU Lying Begin
Walter M. KimbroughFormer President Trump has announced that he will run for office again in 2024. He has successfully held together his base, giving him a great advantage against any potential challengers. In fact, it seems that most potential challengers are afraid to take him on (ask Nikki Haley after being heckled at CPAC recently).
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As Trump gears up, his minions begin to build a narrative about how great he was. Part of this group includes Black folks who really have no real connections with the Black community or Black institutions, who then parrot his claims of being the best president ever for Black people.
Enter Lynne Patton. She’s not an educator. She’s never worked in higher education. She has no HBCU bona fides. But in a recent op-ed she wrote the following:
Trump Made America Great for Minorities, and Will Again
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Let me get back into the habit of fact checking this foolishness. Anytime you see anyone write or say this, know these simple facts:
- Congress appropriates funds, not Presidents. So the premise that Trump GAVE more money to HBCUs is incorrect. President Trump did however submit a budget which included funding for HBCUs. So the real question I always ask when I hear this is, “What did Trump request for HBCUs?”
- In his first year, Trump requested LESS for HBCUs. I summed this up in one tweet a few years ago.
Here is a closer look at that budget:
The 2017 appropriation is what was given the previous year. His budget is his request. Comparing the 2 columns can show where he asked for more, and where he asked for less. The 2018 appropriation column is what the schools received, which was higher most of the time. Trump didn’t give that money. You can see the recommendations by the House and Senate committees and that is where the increases were made.
3. In his second year, Trump requested LESS for HBCUs.
Same thing. The bottom 6 categories are funds for HBCUs and PBIs. This is roughly a $60M proposed CUT by Trump. The final was an increase of about $4M. No one ever mentions this, because Trump is so good selling a narrative.
4. In his third year, Trump requested LESS for HBCUs.
Same song. Again, looking at the same six categories and notice that THREE of them have been zeroed out. But this time Trump proposes a $105M CUT.
5. In his fourth and final year, Trump had a flat HBCU budget request, but requested cuts for PBIs.
He proposed a $27M cut for PBIs by zeroing them out again (after he tried the previous year). He does ask for the maximum $85M for the mandatory HBCU funding (this is the FUTURE Act that in the previous year he zeroed out to let it expire).
Therefore, over the course of four budget proposals, Donald Trump attempted to cut almost $200M from HBCUs and PBIs. In spite of his attempts, each year Congress INCREASED HBCU and PBI funding, not Trump. Giving him credit for the work of Congress that remedied what he tried to harm is wrong.
It’s like giving Pontius Pilate credit for the resurrection when he was the one who ordered Jesus to be crucified.
The fact that HBCU funding increased while Trump was president has nothing to do with him- because he never asked for the funding to be increased. People like Lynne Patton have never looked at the Department of Education budget tables like I have, and she simply serves as a puppet to say what she has been told to say.
Lynne Patton lied. Period.
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Finally it’s over. Time to go to Mr. Everything and get that Lamb Salad
Good show at least the parts I watched. He played that video showing that HBCU's have been underfunded since the start and are at least 13 billion meanwhile the Ukraine and Israel continuously receive money.
This, like many other laws on the books, is a debt that is OWED. And no political party has done a damn thing to correct it.
HBCU UNDERFUNDING starting @52:57 Just press play.
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Exactly but that doesn’t look as cool and isnt as popular as worshipping a sand cac by wearing their fashionable appropriation clothes. Dude looks like a fucking moron clown wearing that
Good job my Congolese Brothas. Get all those colonizers out. Next up Arab trash
As President JOE BIDEN delivered his commencement address at Morehouse College, ticking through his biography, threats to democracy and the accomplishments he’d made for Black voters, the response from the audience was muted.
But that didn’t mean students weren’t reacting. A GroupMe chat involving the senior class of 2024 was humming throughout. And the reviews were rough.
Few said they were impressed by the president’s remarks, according to three students in the chat who described it to West Wing Playbook. Some expressed boredom. Others chimed in that they wished Rev. REGINALD WAYNE SHARPE JR., who delivered a moving and inspirational baccalaureate speech to the class the day before, had been given the commencement slot instead.
“[Biden’s] speech didn’t move me at all. It was very much so a campaign speech. Like, ‘Oh I did this for the Black community,’” said JEREMY MENSAH, a 2024 Morehouse graduate who voted for Biden in 2020 but was unsure how he would vote this November. “I didn’t feel connected to it.”
Not everyone in the crowd was sour on Biden. KERRY DEMOND SINGLETON, another ’24 grad, said he was “extremely impressed by his direct approach to the issues and concerns of the Morehouse graduates.”
But the larger, unenthused response underscored a painful reality for the White House as it aims to shore up its standing before the November election. The problem the president faces on college campuses isn’t just protests — it’s apathy.
Biden’s 30-minute long address at the historically Black college featured no major disruption or protest over the Israel-Hamas war, which many Democrats had feared. And for that, the White House was relieved. But Biden’s team doesn’t need to just sidestep public demonstrations, it needs to turn out new or on-the-fence voters. And there was little evidence on Sunday that Biden had been able to do that — at least on a large scale.
“He went on for a little bit, kind of a rant. I didn’t know what he was talking about for a while,” said ISAIAH WHITE, a 2024 graduate. “No one really clapped when Biden was talking. I think honestly it said a lot. Like, ‘You’re our president, cool. We’re here for Morehouse but we don’t really support what you’re doing.’”
Biden’s Morehouse speech was highly anticipated given that it was the first time he addressed a large group of college students since pro-Palestinian protests broke out at schools across the country earlier this spring. He used the opportunity to not just list the achievements his administration has made for Black Americans and historically Black colleges, like Morehouse, but to express empathy with the plight of the Gazans. He noted that he had a family member who was also distraught at the humanitarian crisis there.
Beyond the scattered applause — and a good laugh when he said his vice president, KAMALA HARRIS, would be the first HBCU grad to serve as president, before any of them — there was little reaction.
Part of it may have been the tension that had built up over the weeks before, with the college’s president threatening to shut down the ceremony if public protest ensued. But the students also read it another way: that Biden doesn’t have the formula or the capacity to excite them.
“That was a disappointment. Classic politician. It felt rehearsed,” said HASANI COMER, class of 2023.
Some Democratic operatives close to the White House viewed the speech as a natural opportunity for Biden to reengage with young Black voters, particularly at a time when polls show former President DONALD TRUMP cutting into Biden’s lead among this demographic.
Some Democrats, along with students, advised the White House to keep the speech focused on the students’ achievements and to not make it too much of a campaign pitch or get bogged down in responding to campus debates about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Others suggested that Biden talk about his economic vision and his plans to invest in the Black community.
And despite general apathy among students whom West Wing Playbook spoke with, a few walked away grateful to have seen the president. “The president had a difficult job,” said HERBERT JONES, a 2024 graduate. “I’m satisfied with it.”
But as they made their way across the damp lawn at the conclusion of the ceremony, several students expressed envy about the commencement ceremony taking place later that afternoon at the neighboring sister school, Spelman College. Actress ANGELA BASSETT was this year’s commencement speaker and Supreme Court Justice KETANJI BROWN JACKSON was presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
“Biden receiving the honorary award was in poor taste,” said DALTON FAVORS, class of 2024. “It was the wrong choice to make. A Morehouse man is one that cares about peace internationally.”
