Betsy DeVos Booed While Giving Commencement Address at Historically Black University

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Betsy DeVos Booed While Giving Commencement Address at Historically Black University

 

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye    Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 4:00pm

Half the graduating class turned their backs on DeVos, requiring the university president to intervene

From the Washington Post:

Many students and alumni had objected to having DeVos as speaker in part because they said the outreach by President Trump and the education secretary to historically black schools is an empty gesture. But the president of the university defended her work as a philanthropist and her commitment to education.

Graduates came into the auditorium smiling, many with flowers and other decorations plastered on their mortar boards, and listened to the ceremony politely, until university President Edison Jackson introduced Omarosa Manigault, an adviser to Trump. Students started booing. Jackson stopped, then said: “You don’t know her. You don’t know her story.” 

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