South Carolina State University now faces defunding by state legislators to punish the HBCU for successfully protesting a commencement speech from anti-DEI Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette. The malicious MAGA is so determined to berate these students on their big day that her canceled appearance is now the pretense to destroy the school she claims to have supported more than anyone else. This is yet another instance where free speech has a steep price when they don’t want to hear it.
University President Alexander Conyers cited concerns for the safety of students, faculty, and guests as a reason to pivot from anything that takes focus away from the ceremony. He invited anyone in the nation to come to the campus for a productive conversation, regardless of their differences with the rest of the community, but agreed graduation isn’t the time for that.
Despite the open-minded concession, Evette went full Karen to make herself the victim rather than the one threatening the safe environment for students. WACH reports she refused to apologize for demeaning students as a “woke mob” and implying it takes a conspiracy for them to object to her speech, which she agreed to in December.
“I was pro-Trump in December. I was anti-DEI in December. Nothing has changed. So I think what you should be asking are the leaders on that college campus, what had changed?” she asked
“Since when is it okay for groups to come together and cite security concerns to have violence play a part in silencing voices? That is not what our country is about,” she said, ignoring centuries of U.S. history.
Read how Lt. Gov. Evette’s Karen commotion is now endangering the future of South Carolina State University after the jump!