Posted on 04/18/2007 11:20:25 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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Nikki Giovanni's Moving Speech from Today's Service Tuesday, April 17, 2007 WSLS NewsChannel 10 |
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Students feared gunman for 18 months Wednesday, April 18, 2007 This is London |
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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 Hokie 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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Students described Cho's descent from campus oddball to chilling loner with a loathing for "rich kids" as he began secretly photographing pupils in class, started going to the gym to "beef up" and had a military-style haircut. It emerged today that at one stage students were so scared of his behaviour that only seven out of 70 turned up for class, forcing lecturers to give him one-to-one tuition. One teacher even suggested today he was given A grades because he was so "intimidating and staff wanted to keep him happy". Nikki Giovanni, who teaches poetry, said she threatened to resign if Cho was not taken out of her class. She said: "I think he liked the idea he was a scary guy. Some people like that. That is how they define themselves. Kids write about murder and suicide all the time. But there was something that made us all pay attention closely. "Students absolutely would not come into class. They said, 'He is taking photographs of us. We don't know what he is doing. It is very strange'." When she first heard of the killings Professor Giovanni said she immediately thought it would be Cho. "When they said it was a shooting, I said, 'Okay...' When they said a young Asian, I said, 'For sure'. I knew when it happened that that was who it was. "There was something mean about this boy. I've taught troubled youngsters, I've taught crazy people. It was the meanness that bothered me. It was a real mean streak." |
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Nikki Giovanni's Moving Speech from Today's Service Tuesday, April 17, 2007 WSLS NewsChannel 10 |
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Student Wrote About Death and Spoke in Whispers... Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Washington Post |
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...We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid.... |
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...Days later, seven of Giovanni's 70 or so students showed up for a class. She asked them why the others didn't show up and was told that they were afraid of Cho... |
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Instead of denouncing him as the evil bastard he was, and taking responsibility for not stopping him herself, she takes off on a bizarre, nuts-o diatribe filled with left-wing fantasy nonsense about baby elephants?!?
BUMP (again)
She sounds like a complete moonbat in that speech.
Sheesh!
That “military style haircut” should have been the last straw! /sarcasm
Oh my...and she got up fromt in the service and made a speech...hmmm...
Unbelievable! No wonder our education system is turning out wackos. Talk about a disconnect...
Appreciate the profound mourning of everyone, including her. But it’s hard to hear about AIDS and baby elephants and tragedy in Appalachia in the same breath as this massacre. I suggest she talk about baby elephants in another place at another time...............
Wow, these kids were so afraid of him, they refused to come to class?
Yeah, I think this is big news. Remember there was two hours between shootings, you would htink somehow someone would be suspicious....
I was trying to figure out why she was speaking at all. Now it’s clear. What is unclear is the complete disjuncture between (a) the perfectly normal response she had to this nutcase and (b) the moonbat talk she gave the assembly after the massacre. I suspect she was unable to admit that she herself really, truly believes that it is the responsibility of authority figures (white ones, no less) to stop obviously psychopathic people (including “minorities”) from harming others, no matter what the psychopaths might say about their rights and so on.
He was barely literate and yet was passed through the university with passing grades because no one would admit that he didn’t belong in college.
Obviously the only good Giovanni is Aria Giovanni.
Bump for later.
Heh.
That look doesn’t exactly work for her.
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? What is that thing?
Well now! You make a compelling point.
Absolutely no poetic justice in this story. /sarcasm
Condolences to all of the innocent victims, their families and their friends.
Is it ok to say her hair rhymes with happy ?
And some in my workplace were talking about how much they admired her work and what a fabulous wordsmith she is. I was truly underwhelmed by her.
I thought, “This is what passes for good poetry???!”
Truly crappy poetry.
Double-Dog Dittos to that!! I guess any RAT/lib/socialist English “professor” who can string a couple of lines of PC claptrap together is now considered a poet. If she teaches her courses like she writes her “poetry”, it can’t be much of a class. I would ask for a refund!
I would have posted a picture, but they’s all X-Rated.
“He” was in one of her classes....until she demand he be removed....
“poetry” seems to be like “art” - the weirder it is, the more it is celebrated.....as long as someone rich is following (supporting) it.
She has a lot of senority. If she demanded he be expelled, there must not be any warning mechanism to attract the attention of higher ups.
Actually, I'm sort of a fan of Giovanni Ribisi, cf. Band of Brothers, and The Gift.
I don’t agree with it, but I do understand the rationale behind what she is doing. People from the left are trying to empower themselves by taking the blame for other people’s activities. It makes them feel less frightened to think they did something to cause evil (and can conversely do something to stop evil).
Well, maybe I shouldn’t use the word evil, because they don’t reallly believe in good/evil. But I think it’s a fairly egocentric approach to the world to try and rationalize that everything is your own fault.
I thought, “This is what passes for good poetry???!”
I've never heard of her before, and hopefully this doesn't pass as representative of her body of work, but the "We are Virginia Tech" refrain sounds straight out of the mouth of a gum-snapping high school cheerleader:
S-U-C-C-E-S-S. That's the way we spell "success."
“I suggest she talk about baby elephants in another place at another time...............”
Just wait until a Democrat gets in the White House. Nikki will probably be made official speechwriter for the President.
You replied to the above articles saying — “He was barely literate and yet was passed through the university with passing grades because no one would admit that he didn’t belong in college.”
When I went through those articles I found nothing that indicated that he was illiterate (or barely so).
Now, I have seen that he was disturbed, a loner, not socially adept (very anti-social) — but — never illiterate.
In fact, I read one of his plays and he can write as well as many who post on Free Republic, if not better than some. He definitely did not want to speak to people. One of his teachers indicated that he was not just disturbed but *mean* (and I might add, perhaps “evil” in his deeds, for sure).
He refused to talk to people. Some of his dorm-mates, when first encountering him, thought he couldn’t speak well. But they found out later (at certain times) that he could speak, when he wanted to. He was not illiterate or not knowledgeable of the English language. For one, he was an English major.
So, to give people the impression he was illiterate is simply putting a false idea out to people that has *no basis* in fact (or in any reports that I have seen *anywhere* since the beginning of all this reporting).
Regards,
Star Traveler
Yep, and I have a feeling he isnt the only one in that situation at colleges in America.
I was really embarrased at how long it took Rush Limbaugh to grasp this point the other day. As soon as I heard that he was an English-major and then the "rich kids" part of his note, it was like firecrackers went off in my head. It took Rush about 15 minutes and several callers to make the connection.
You said — “Instead of denouncing him as the evil bastard he was...”
I saw her do that very thing. I saw an interview (on the web TV version of CNN) in which she denounced him as — not disturbed but mean. She said “I know disturbed and he was not disturbed; he was mean!”
That definitely puts another light on things. And as for following through on these things, they apparently did, with the university administration and counseling and the police department. But, apparently nothing came of it (or not “enough” came of it).
Regards,
Star Traveler
“People from the left are trying to empower themselves by taking the blame for other people’s activities.”
Now if they would just take the blame for their own activities...
Check it out---I'm a poet:
There once was a guy from Nantucket
Who was beat
en down by the white man
AND s-l-a-v-e
to the warming oceans
The beluga whale screams its opposition
To the BUSH regime (OUT the BUSHES!)
Orpheus weeps . . .
Ivory tears of baby elephants.
WE DIDN'T LISTEN.
Outside, it's Amerika.
Do you mean, crappy?
Ah yes, the eager West Pointer, no? That was a quality performance.
Giovanni Ribisi was in “Saving Private Ryan”
You said — “No wonder our education system is turning out wackos.”
Well, if the other students there heard that comment of yours, I’m sure they would object to being put in the same category as Cho and the implication that all those other students (who are attending Virginia Tech) could just as easily have been a “shooter” as Cho was (because of the “education system turning out wackos”).
I’m afraid that this simply is not supportable. There are evil people and he was one of them. He bears that responsibility himself.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Oh, shoot, I said Band Of Brothers, and I meant Saving Private Ryan. Sorry. Band of Brothers is so much better, that I was confused.
oh my Lord........
I guess that will work too. I was think more along the lines of KNAPPY. Not sure if its a word or what it means.
Oh... and one more thing to that... the “other side” will use the same type of reasoning here and say —
“See, it’s the guns and that’s why we have these kinds of shooters, the “gun mentality” in our country and the availability of all those weapons”.
You’ve fallen into the same trap that they have — except being on the other side of the fence. It’s not his fault (it’s the education system’s fault; it’s the gun lobby’s fault)...
Regards,
Star Traveler
Giovanni was an embarassment, nothing but unrestrained libtard mouthings...certainly an example of a complete moonbat. What an indication of the total catastrophe that education at all levels has become.
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