The students graduating from Howard University in Washington D.C. this week got a lesson from Barack Obama: Be confident in your blackness. Meanwhile, White students across the United States are being asked to apologize for their heritage.
First of all — and this should not be a problem for this group — be confident in your heritage. (Applause.) Be confident in your blackness. One of the great changes that’s occurred in our country since I was your age is the realization there’s no one way to be black. Take it from somebody who’s seen both sides of debate about whether I’m black enough. (Laughter.) In the past couple months, I’ve had lunch with the Queen of England and hosted Kendrick Lamar in the Oval Office. There’s no straitjacket, there’s no constraints, there’s no litmus test for authenticity…
Second, even as we each embrace our own beautiful, unique, and valid versions of our blackness, remember the tie that does bind us as African Americans — and that is our particular awareness of injustice and unfairness and struggle.
Howard University may be a historically black college, but the president’s words represent the fundamental issue he and his party have when speaking about equality. Rather than talk about what unites us, and what we as a country can do to move past the era of racial segregation, they’re highlighting it at every opportunity. This divisive strategy may play well at the ballot box, but it only drives a wedge further between the minority and non-minority populations across the United States.
Source: Weekly Standard
Well said thank you.
Obama and all liberals are a hindrance to America.
This is all that he has ever done. he blames every white for imagined racism and then preaches to blacks that they are victims. he and Michelle play the race card at every college commencement. They truly are vile. and the country will be better off when they leave.
Curious: were there white kids in this school? If so, guess they were just ignored!