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Virginia Tech Convocation

Nikki Giovanni - We Are Virginia Tech  
 
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SeptemberChild65 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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you people, who think she caused this...............is sicker than (NO I WILL NOT INSERT UGLY STEROTYPES) the wonderful, misunderstood person who KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE.
SeptemberChild65 (2 months ago)
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SeptemberChild65 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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HUH?!?
fullnelson9999 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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do a bit of research bud...youre wrong.
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I'm disappointed in her. You'd think as a poet, not to mention an African American woman, she'd have some measure of sympathy for a person pushed away by society. Instead she treated him like a monster, the same as everyone else. When a black woman poet thinks you're a monster, you know that you are truly alone in the world.
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I think as a human...black, white, other., she was afraid of him. She saw him as a sad person with the potential of hurting someone. Even a strong African American woman can be afraid. She did NOT know what to do with him or for him.
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She didn't have to kick him out of class. It's impossible to know exactly what went on in Cho's mind, but he saw himself as being persecuted (and probably was to some degree) and Giovanni's actions certainly added to that. Being scared is understandable, but as a teacher, a human being, AND a female African-American poet (who ought to know something about being different) she had a responsibility to reach out to smeone who was a social pariah, instead of persecuting him.
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A person who is African American does not make them automatically a savior for anyone "different" Come on?!? She is a person, you know.........human. I totally agree w/ what she did. I am just sorry she didn't have a damn gun w/ her.
451ianDragonist (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Not as a black person so much as a poet, she should have had sympathy for someone different. Instead she persecuted him for his writing. What makes it even more ironic is that she's written some pretty violent stuff... look up "nigger can you kill"

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