Posted on 05/25/2015 2:06:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
First lady Michelle Obama advised the 2015 graduates at Oberlin that they'll find a world of clamor and conflict that will beset them outside the protected lives they've led in college. And, she told them, they should embrace it.
Outside that atmosphere of safety, what Obama referred to as four years of "thoughtful, respectful discussion, debate and late-night conversations," she posited that graduates might find themselves "a little dismayed by the clamor outside these walls: the name calling, the negative ads, the folks yelling at each other on TV."
"Today I want to suggest that if you truly wish to carry on the Oberlin legacy of service and social justice, then you need to run to and not away from the noise," she said.
Obama prodded the students, too, saying, that with their Oberlin degrees and "all the status and connections that degree confers," they "don't get to be precious or cautious or cynical," and she identified the areas for the graduates to tackle: "Climate change, economic inequality, human rights, criminal justice - these are the revolutions of your time.
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Can you imagine e being a parent and - after spending 22 years raiding your child and maybe $300,000 on its college, to go to the graduation ceremony and have to listen to a vacuous prattle like this? The college could have found any number of more appropriate speakers, don’t you think?
Oberlin is a cesspool of liberalism.That’s why the parents send their kids there.Hence my comment about them getting the speaker they deserve.
understood. but they still could have gotten someone more credible and who’s done something positive or interesting in life...
I don’t know.... Alan Dershovitz? I hate to say it but maybe Bernie the socialist senator? Bloomberg? Trump? lots of leftists or liberal people have some accomplishments, some qualifications, something they can talk about... other than ‘global warming’ and force-feeding broccholi to our school kids
just saying, the parents sure got short-changed ... is all
But I do get your point, yes!
thanks
ha!
If Moochie was't have low class she wouldn't have any class at all.
*sigh*
Well it is certainly surprising that ‘Shellie’s speech aligns perfectly with her beard’s and the democrat’s latest talking points. Who wrote this for her, Josh(iing) InEarnest?
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