All tagged Commencement
In the recording of the Justice High school speech that I watched, the cameras were fixed on the speaker. There was no way to know how many - if any - parents marched up to their offspring, yanked them from their seats and dragged them away from this appalling claptrap.
Yet, in the immediate aftermath of this exquisite act of generosity, folks on both sides of the gaping American political divide began pissing all over Robert F. Smith’s good deed.
What you see before you is living proof that C students really can land paying jobs and earn enough to eventually move out of the parental homestead.
Whether it was the magnolias, the lovely Southern architecture or the 10-acre Grove in the center of campus, I don’t know. Maybe it was the dean of students offering to walk us to the art department when we were lost. Perhaps it was the stories we heard about Eli Manning’s years there. Or the sweet reverence toward Faulkner and other great Mississippi authors.
