Tayari's Blog: Nikki Giovanni Puts It All In Context

Posted by TayariJones on April 18, 2007 08:15 AM
Filed under Current Events

Nikki Giovanni delivered the closing remarks at the memorial convocation at Virginia Tech on yesterday. She struck a perfect ballance between honoring the sadness particular to the Tech campus and linking it with the horrors around the world. So many people in the world are suffering; as she says, "no one deserves a tragedy."

Just yesterday, I was thinking of all the bombings happening in Iraq. How often do we hear "twelve killed", "twenty killed"... Maybe one thing we will learn from this tragedy at Virginia Tech is a greater degree of empathy for the suffering all over the globe. And once we have felt the sorrow and mulled its implications, maybe we will act.

I am posting the YouTube here, but there is a clearer video over at CNN.

(via crystal)

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