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Betsy DeVos Booed Mercilessly At Commencement Speech For Black University

Hank Berrien

On Wednesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, giving the commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Daytona Beach, Florida, was met with thunderous boos.

It wasn’t just the students who booed; parents also joined in the nasty response to DeVos. Some blacks have taken offense to DeVos’ statement that historically black colleges and universities were “the original pioneers of school choice.”

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