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. "
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destabilization of the land by strip mining
Giovanni is a nut.
Yeah........I figured that out REALLY fast.
Was she nappie headed blonde?
There was a note at the bottom of the FOX screen this AM that Nikki had thrown Cho out of her class.
Just in case (wink) your allusion was missed ...
Khrushchev [that's Nikita Khrushchev] repeatedly disrupted the proceedings in the United Nations General Assembly in September-October 1960 by pounding his fists on the desk and shouting in Russian. On 29 September 1960, Khrushchev twice interrupted a speech by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, removing his shoe and proceeding to bang his desk with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khruschev#Khrushchev.27s_personality
This is a fact.
It's what they do.
Do you care to dispute this fact or or continue your apologia for her and your limp gibes at me?
Professor Yolande (pseudonym "Nikki") Cornelia Giovanni Jr. (!) glibly dismisses her radical past. In the 60's she was a militant participant in the cultural and political movements on college campuses.
In her poem "Black Judgement" she calls for the destruction of oppressive whites and middle-class Black collaborators.
The poem also asks "Nigger, can you kill?" It ends with a directive for them to kill in order to become "Black men".
She's a continuing anti-war/peace movement icon on just about every leftist web site or blog.
These sites always refer to her most famous Shakespearianly-profound quote:
"In the name of peace
They waged the war
Ain't they got no shame?"
(.....excerpt from her poem "The Great Pax Whitie" (Whitie's Great Peace).
I could continue with her history, but I see you live in Virginia and you may be one of her star-struck students.
Now, shall we get back to the facts..........like those above when we discuss Perfessor Nikki's liberal/political inserts into her out-of-place eulogy during the VT tragedy remembrance?
Leni
Oh, NOW I get it. LOL!
Must have been a moonbat.
Leni
Good background on this cretin who spews spittle at the poor students while they are mourning. She has no shame!
I think there are few Roman Catholics in that part of Virginia.
Thank you.
Does anyone know what the “Appalachian infant” thing is all about? Very strange, I thought.....
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She needed to include white people, so the hick Appalachian infant is killed by a boulder rolling over thier shack, think Cletus from the Simpsons.
You missed the point. Supposedly, the clergy at the Convocation were representative of the student body. If so, then I would certainly think there would be Catholic priests present as well as Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc. Instead, we saw three non-Christian ministers and a liberal Lutheran. Further, I suspect the three non Christian clergy represented a very small number of adherents on the campus as opposed to Protestant and Catholic adherents.
I also take exception to equating the murder of 32 sentient human beings to the woes of a baby elephant.
It could be because I know where I came from and where I'm going -- and it's not from nothingness to nothingness.
I'll pass on that drink, thanks.
My point is that there are very few Catholic clergymen in the area where that school is located. That said, I’m sure that they could have found at least one if they had thought of it.
What? You say there was no room on the program? Well they could have eliminated, or shortened, the time allotted to at least 2 of the speakers — the ones that made me switch the dial.
He/she truly thinks like a lib.
"It’s my way or the highway."
No matter how much information one brings to the table, there is always a ...”ya’ but”
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