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?
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