Large segments of the historically black school’s student body greeted the Trump advisers with disdain VIDEO
Both Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump’s adviser Omarosa Manigault were met with a chorus of boos by students at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black university in Florida. DeVos — who has both been and — was roundly booed when university president Edison Jackson introduced her to give her an honorary doctorate, . Roughly half of the graduates turned their backs on her and many shouted over DeVos while the cabinet member criticized their dissent by claiming they should try to learn from individuals with whom they disagree. “I am at the table fighting on your behalf, ” DeVos told the students. When the that it had asked DeVos to deliver the speech, the student body erupted in outrage. Protest petitions quickly accumulated thousands of signatures and many called on President Jackson to resign. The anger wasn’ t just because of DeVos’ association with Trump, but also because she had previously referred to historically black colleges as “real pioneers when it comes to school choice.”
