Morehouse Graduates Silently Protest Biden's Commencement Speech
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
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Summary
President Joe Biden gave the commencement speech at Morehouse College’s graduation ceremony on Sunday. Some students and faculty at the historically black college in Atlanta protested his presence on campus amid the war in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, May 20th. I'm Travel Anderson. And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is what a day, |
| 0:11.7 | where we can't stop saying bleach blonde bad built |
| 0:14.1 | butch body. Listen Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett gave us this iconic line |
| 0:19.0 | against Marjorie Taylor Green late last week and I have to stand. It's incredible. What a read, okay? Truly. |
| 0:27.0 | On today's show, we look at what could be the final week of Trump's |
| 0:35.2 | hush money trial plus did he resurfaces with an apology? |
| 0:39.4 | Save it, please. But first President Biden gave the commencement speech at Morehouse College's graduation on Sunday. |
| 0:46.2 | Morehouse is a historically black college here in Atlanta. |
| 0:49.2 | It is the all matter of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 0:52.2 | Also my dad and also of course your all |
| 0:55.3 | matter Treval it is a mine shout out to them for me being part of their legacy |
| 1:01.2 | truly now many morehouse students and faculty |
| 1:04.6 | oppose the administration's decision |
| 1:06.5 | to invite President Biden to speak at graduation, |
| 1:10.0 | given the war in Gaza. |
| 1:11.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium, |
| 1:15.7 | the 46 president of the United States, |
| 1:18.4 | Joseph Arbait. |
| 1:22.0 | We've covered campus protests against the war and like countless other universities and |
| 1:26.9 | institutions there is a sizable contingent at Morehouse who've been openly |
| 1:31.6 | critical of the war and the role America has played in it to the tune of billions of dollars. |
| 1:38.0 | As he said, we've been talking about this a lot and at More House there was also conflict over whether Biden should receive an honorary degree from the institution. |
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