[subbob]

Amazing. She equates ivory hunters killing baby elephants with the senseless tragedy at Virginia Tech.

[Alouette]

ivory hunters killing baby elephants

Now why would ivory hunters kill baby elephants? They don't have tusks.

[billhilly]

Utter............., oh, whatever.

[Ghengis]

[Hazwaste]

“Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory...”

What in the Wide Wide World of Sports???

[syriacus]

Why was Cho older than the typical college student? Did he miss out on some earlier schooling?

[Chena]

I don’t believe that she was equating yesterday’s tragedy to other tragedies. I think her point was merely that no one deserves tragedy but we must all heal from tragedy.

[exit82]

A nappy headed po(et).

Her speech was hopelessly obtuse and devoid of true compassion. But she sounded good.

[justiceseeker93]

You might be interested to know that Michael Savage blasted her to smitherines on his radio show tonight.

BTW, what is a "Hokie"? It was a little easier to follow when the school's athletic teams were called the "Gobblers," but I guess that name might have been changed due to political correctness.

[abigailsmybaby]

I turned it off when she started with the Africans dying of AIDS ‘cause I knew she was going to start spewing her political agenda. And I didn’t even know who she was.

[Front 242]

According to the Wikipedia entry for ‘ahem’ Mister/Miss Nikki Giovanni, she has a tattoo in memory of that original gangster, Tupac Shakur. It reads “THUG LIFE”.

Here is the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni

And the quote:

Trivia
Nikki Giovanni has a tattoo with the words “Thug Life,” in memory of Tupac Shakur.

Makes one wonder where this person’s morals originate from.

Front 242

[lastchance]

This speech is outrageous. This was not a fund raiser for the World Wildlife Fund or Victims of Avalanches in Appalachia or Disease of The Decade. It was a convocation for the victims of the deadliest school shooting in this country.

A man decided to murder 32 innocents with callous disregard for the sanctity of life. The hearts of their family and friends must be shattered with grief at this time and for a very long time to come. This was not caused by the indifferent force of history or economy or politics. This happened because evil had free reign on VT campus. And that evil had a name.

[ken21]

the writing’s a bit whacko for a college grad and teacher.

she’s made the occasion an advertisement for her leftwing political agenda.

[betsyross1776]

I just found out he was a she. I thought she was a male . The elephant thing went over my head and the baby with the bolder also. The only thing I got out of it was we are Vt.But I guess God knows how to cheer people so they can go on. Tthe only thing I got out of it was let’s go Hookies.isn’t it amazing that with a speech like that the students actually got something out of it. I guess God works His wonders in many mysterious ways.

[SQUID]

Nikki, with all due respect my dear, stick to math because writer/poet you are not.

Personal agenda can be set aside for at least this moment. Also, examples should have some reasonable parallel.

[rollo tomasi]

Maybe this chick should lobby for the right of elephants to carry.

A senseless tragedy is a coward shooting up a room full of innocent people because his feelings were hurt and wanted to be an “outsider”.

A baby elephant watches ivory hunters rampage “it’s”village because ivory is a valuable commodity to certain people.

This chick thinks, like all collectivist, that we are a bunch of preschoolers and she is the only one with wisdom.

[MinuteGal]

As a long-time FR laureate-ette
I have both the rhyme and reason to vet
Throw Maya and Nikki in a trashcan
And bring back a bard like Ogden Nashman

Leni

[Flightdeck]

Is that crap supposed to be some kind of Maya Angelouesque poetry slop?

[kalee]

ping

[calmseas]

Probably the worst thing about this is that Nikkomie achieved greater notoriety with this speech. Before this, who ever heard of hear except for those in her socialist revolutionary circles. (I’ll bet she’s Castro’s favorite poet.)

[danmar]

Nikki Giovanni's Speech at VA Tech Convocation

Who is this woman?...A black woman with an Italian surname not to mention two first names...very strange. Usually those names are used/reserved for the Porn Industry (...you never call yourself with a short version of your first name, so I was told)