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Nikki Giovanni's Speech at VA Tech Convocation
WSLS NewsChannel 10 ^ | 17 April 2007 | WSLS NewsChannel 10

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. "


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: academia; giovanni; liberalpolitics; liberals; liberalvalues; nikki; nikkigiovanni; stuckonstupid; vatech; virginiatech
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Amazing. She equates ivory hunters killing baby elephants with the senseless tragedy at Virginia Tech.
1 posted on 04/17/2007 5:52:18 PM PDT by subbob
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To: subbob

Wh is Nikki?


2 posted on 04/17/2007 5:54:45 PM PDT by Bob J (nks)
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To: subbob

Does anyone know what the “Appalachian infant” thing is all about? Very strange, I thought.....


3 posted on 04/17/2007 5:54:53 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops. NOW more than ever!!.)
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To: subbob

She’s always gotta be shilling for the cause, you know. Nothing takes precedence over the forward march of socialism.


4 posted on 04/17/2007 5:55:04 PM PDT by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: subbob
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.

What? Liberals are scum.

5 posted on 04/17/2007 5:56:44 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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Does anyone know what the “Appalachian infant” thing is all about? Very strange, I thought.....

Almost the whole speech I didn't get and went waaaaaaaaaaaaay over my head

6 posted on 04/17/2007 5:56:53 PM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: subbob

She is anything but coming together.


7 posted on 04/17/2007 5:57:21 PM PDT by freekitty
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"Amazing. She equates ivory hunters killing baby elephants with the senseless tragedy at Virginia Tech."

Well said. Thats insane.

8 posted on 04/17/2007 5:58:16 PM PDT by No Blue States
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Well, I guess we should be thankful that she didn't blast President Bush (who was the best part of the Convocation, IMO) in her speech.

I guess she thinks he's a 'terrorist.'

9 posted on 04/17/2007 5:58:55 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops. NOW more than ever!!.)
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When I first heard her, I thought it was a replay of the Wellstone Rally. That is the exact tone she took.


10 posted on 04/17/2007 5:58:59 PM PDT by rintense (I'm 4 Thompson!)
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“We know we did not deserve it but neither does”.... the audience here who has to listen to this baloney !!!


11 posted on 04/17/2007 6:01:29 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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Nikki is the ahem “poet” that did the poem on Fountain Square in Cincinnati. It was a family oriented event and she was asked to dedicate the new square grand opening and managed to call Ken Blackwell a sonofabitch or something to that effect.

She’s a real piece of work..

12 posted on 04/17/2007 6:01:32 PM PDT by bleach
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She disgraced the dedication of a monument in Cincinnati last year. She is a hater.

I am not a son of a bitch like Kenny Blackwell …

http://axinar.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-am-cincinnati-by-nikki-giovanni.html


13 posted on 04/17/2007 6:03:39 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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She is anything but coming together.

nice turn of phrase there.

14 posted on 04/17/2007 6:03:46 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)
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To: subbob

Is anyone really surprised? After the Wellstone memorial, The Coretta scott King funeral that a leftist would use a grand stage like this to spew this absolute tripe. Especially in Academia.


15 posted on 04/17/2007 6:04:13 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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Was she one of Cho’s profs in the English Department?

Does every University have an on staff Poet Laurette?

The students I saw at the student gathering today seem pretty conservative and well spoken when interviewed by the MSM.

Nikki seemed to take advantage of the situation to grand stand for causes beyond the horrific events that took place yesterday at VT.

16 posted on 04/17/2007 6:04:16 PM PDT by not2worry ( What goes around comes around!)
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How long is the VT circus in town anyway? I’m sure that there are at least 1,343 people who haven’t been interviewd or photo’d on tv yet..........


17 posted on 04/17/2007 6:04:43 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco ( No one should have to suffer the indignity of gawks, stares or peeks.....)
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To: freekitty

I would like to know just who likes this woman enough to invite her in the first place.


18 posted on 04/17/2007 6:05:23 PM PDT by period end of story (Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.)
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Amazing. She equates ivory hunters killing baby elephants with the senseless tragedy at Virginia Tech.

She's not saying that they're equivalent tragedies, she's saying that there's no reason behind the tragedy at Virginia Tech anymore than there's reason behind tragedies that happen anywhere in the world. Deserve has nothing to do with it, so be sad but don't be afraid.

Not her best by any stretch of the imagination, but I give Prof. Giovanni slack because she is writing one day after the incident.

Speaking of which, Nikki Giovanni is quite a talented poet and worth looking at for any FReeper poetry fans.

19 posted on 04/17/2007 6:05:47 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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Obviously a swipe at Appalachian mining, because, you know, infants are routinely killed in their cribs by boulders rolling over their houses that were in turn dislodged by mining companies. Republican mining companies, of course.


20 posted on 04/17/2007 6:06:16 PM PDT by Space Wrangler
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