Considering that Betsy's boss said last week that black college funding was unconstitutional, I can imagine their, "disdain".."DeVos called HBCUs "real pioneers when it comes to school choice," a remark she was forced to walk back after protests; in fact, these colleges were founded as the only option for students, when other colleges were still legally segregated.
contrary to FAKE NEWS peddlers like 2aguy here, the university took the highroad.
Within hours of the announcement at the start of this month, the school in Daytona Beach, Fla., began actively defending its decision to invite DeVos.
"One of the lasting hallmarks of higher education is its willingness to engage, explore, and experience that which we deem as 'other,' " Jackson said in an open letter to the school community the same day as the announcement.
"When we seek to shelter our students and campus communities from views that are diametrically opposed to their own," he continued, "we actually leave our students far less capable of combating those ideas. ... We cannot, and we will not, ever accomplish this if we continue to exist in ideological, social, and racial silos."
At the ceremony Wednesday, Jackson interrupted DeVos shortly into her address in order to quiet graduates in the crowd, some of whom had risen to their feet to turn their backs on DeVos in protest.
WATCH: Betsy DeVos Speaks Over Torrent Of Boos During Bethune-Cookman Speech
i suppose rethuglican dumbos like 2aguy would like to punish students for reacting of their own free will.
The graduates' booing and turning their backs doesn't surprise me. It's just another manifestation of the impertinence people are given easily to exhibiting in their public lives. Accordingly, the students' behavior, though churlish, ruefully typifies that which, apparently, 20-somethings these days consider de rigueur. What strikes me as far less typical is that a HBC invited Devos to speak at its commencement.
