PRESIDENT BIDEN STRIKES THE RIGHT TONE AT MOREHOUSE
By: Derek Varsalona
At first, I was a little taken aback that President Biden would be giving a graduation commencement speech at Morehouse College a historically black college. I find it odd that he did not send the first female and black Vice President Kamala Harris to give the speech. But President Biden gave an excellent speech that hit a cord with the graduating class.
President Biden told the audience that they made a lot of sacrifices to get our kids through college. So did President Biden. But President Biden did not address the unaffordability of the colleges on every President's watch not just President Biden. I would have liked him to address how college is unaffordable. Nor, did he mention the fact that Bidenomics is not working and that it is Bidenomics that has caused inflation. Nor, did he mention the fact that Bidenflation is making life unaffordable.
President Biden did mention that Morehouse was a college of former enslaved people. That strikes the right tone at a historically black college. He also struck the right tone when talking about how education makes you more free. But the one thing a college education does not make you free from is the enslavement of college loans since college is increasingly unaffordable. I do not totally agree with President Biden that loans should automatically be forgiven. I would set up a system where the government forgives your student loan if you serve in the military, government, or some other form of community service either as a job or volunteer. People have to give back to get a student loan forgiven under my plan.
President Biden hit home the right tone by honoring Dr. Martin Luther King who I actually think was a Republican. It was right for President Biden to hit home a message of faith in this speech. President Biden was also right to bring up the memory of George Floyd. For the record, George Floyd should have never lost his life with a knee on his neck. I feel such a gruesome act set race relations back at least 50 years and it put cops in a bad light. Not all cops are bad most are not, but yet in life, there are some crooked cops, like the ones that killed George Floyd.
President Biden hit the right tone that race relations are bad. It all started with the George Floyd incident. I don’t think race relations have been this bad in America since segregation. But we are turning the corner. Due to President Biden’s leadership Childhood poverty among blacks is at an all-time low. That is a great accomplishment and President Biden must be commended for making that happen. As always comments accepted.
Source: President Joseph R. Biden. “ Remarks by President Biden at Morehouse”. Morehouse College. Atlanta: May 19, 2024.
President Biden Speech at Morehouse
Image: President Biden
Morehouse College
May 19, 2024
NYTimes
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/19/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-morehouse-college-class-of-2024-commencement-address-atlanta-ga/
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