“I support peaceful nonviolent protest,' Biden told students, some who wore keffiyeh scarves around their shoulders. 'Your voices should be heard, and I promise you I hear them.”
President Joe Biden delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, telling graduates that he hears their voices of protest over the Israel-Hamas war and describing scenes from the conflict as "heartbreaking."Morehouse is a male-only historically Black college in Atlanta. Biden's commencement speech sparked backlash among the school’s faculty and supporters who oppose Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza.
The comments, toward the end of his address that also reflected on American democracy and his role in safeguarding it, were the most direct recognition to U.S. students about the campus protests that have swept across the country.Nearly all the streets around the campus were shut down for the event.
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