The purpose of a keynote speech at a college graduation ceremony is for an eminence to send those in caps and gowns out into the world with a sense of purpose.
At Tougaloo College, a historically black liberal arts college in Mississippi, Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett gave the hundred-plus graduates a clear-cut message: It was their role to go out and beat white people with folding chairs.
Metaphorically? Perhaps. Probably, in fact. But, unlike her usual racial shenanigans, there was no plausible deniability in what the Democratic Party’s biggest growing single-person problem said during her speech on Sunday.
Mind you, it wasn’t in the pull-quotes local media took from the speech: “You should take time to better understand yourself in this newly acquired alumni status and evaluate where the pull is coming from, that tug on your heart that you feel that bread crumb of the events that are leading you on your path to purpose,” WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi, near where Tougaloo is located, reported.
Similarly, WAPT took other inspiring platitudes from her 20-minute commencements in its report: “Black people have always had to fight for everything that they got,” Crockett said. “There’s very little that has been given to us, and while progress has been made, there’s always a need to make even more progress.”