But you weren't the one selected to make the address to the students. You can second-guess what she said, but the audience's reaction was certainly one of approval. "Commie negative?" Nonsense. Here is how one FReeper, AppyPappy, a student at VA Tech, reacted to Nikki Giovanni's Speech
Post #51--"Nikki is irreverant, naughty and a trouble maker. In short, a Hokie. I think she is a lefty, civil rights wannabe. But she is Hokie through and through." My comment: Even a broken clock gets it right twice a day, and in this case, Nikki struck just the right chord.
The WP reported it this way:
"Less than an hour later, after tears and citations of Scripture, the spirit people here call Hokie Nation surfaced in an unexpected and moving fashion. A familiar sound rose from a lower section in the basketball arena of this sports-crazed school:
"Let's go, Hokies!"
Clap-clap-clapclapclap!
"Let's go, Hokies!"
Clap-clap-clapclapclap!"
My comment: The Hokie nation remains united and strong, bloodied but unbowed. That was the message to one another and the world.
Your right I wasn’t the one to speak to the students. I did not understand what the elephants have to do with that speech. But then again I am not as intelligent as her I guess. I thought elephants and armies had nothing to do with how anyone felt other then spuming an agenda during a very sorrowful event. It is my opinion and from the posts in here a lot of people agree with me. My opinion, maybe she got cheers but then again I do not understand the rest of the speech. A lot of people in here think it was shades of the Well stone agenda, read their posts also./