Vice Pres. Kamala Harris gave a sobering look at the 'unsettled' world students are heading into as she delivered the commencement speech at Tennessee State University.
"The world that you graduate into is unsettled," Harris said."It is a world where long-established principles now rest on shaky ground. We see this in Ukraine, where Russia's invasion threatens international rules and norms that have provided unprecedented peace and security in Europe since World War II."
"We believed that the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity had for the most part prevailed, that democracy had prevailed," she continued."But now the certainty of fundamental principles is being called into question, including the principles of equality and fairness."U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris embraces a graduating student at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn., on May 7, 2022.
The crowd erupted in cheers when Harris remarked that the students were facing an unsettled world where Roe v. Wade may be"In the United States, we are once again forced to defend fundamental principles that we hoped were long settled -- principles like the freedom to vote, the rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies, even what constitutes the truth, especially in an era, when anyone can post anything online and claim it is a fact," Harris said.
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