Clarence Thomas had a beautiful message for young people. One key takeaway is to cultivate your garden. High ambition to “change the world” is maybe noble, but you should focus instead on achieving something locally. Care about your neighbors and that virtue will ripple up to the nation as a whole.
I get the Hillsdale news letter. One of the few, if any, colleges that would invite Thomas and not burn the college to the ground in protest upon his arrival.
My daughter just graduated from college. The speaker said, “diversity”, “tolerance” and “giving back” quite a bit.
To this idiot, getting your degree wasn’t about personal success or accomplishment. It was about sharing and global obligation. Doing well financially without realizing your obligation to others wouldn’t be right.
His is a very nice message, but we’ve got communists, socialists, Marxists,and assorted fellow travelers eating away at our nation every day. These busy beavers get paid by hundreds of “foundations” to do their evil work. Meanwhile, the good folk go to work and raise families meeting their societal obligations, all the while asking “What happened to our nation? Where did it go?”
A much needed simple message to today’s graduates.
I hope it well received by other college and university graduates too.
A very non-description of a very iconic college. Hillsdale, which I do support with endowing a scholarship, is famous for rejecting all government aid and thus immune from government mandates! It is a liberal arts college in the classic sense of liberal as open to all viewpoints. Its Imprimis Newsletter is a free publication and I expect to read Justice Thomas' remarks in a future edition.
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
Compass, Broken; 1 each
Once upon a time this was a useful instrument for pointing the direction a boy should go.
Today, not so much - as the needle has fallen off and
rendered the tool into a directionally errant piece of plastic memorabilia.
The alinsky-lovin obamas are always effectively telling young people to act up.