Morehouse Threatens to Cut Biden's Commencement Speech Short

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Students planning to protest President Joe Biden's Morehouse College commencement speech have reportedly been warned that graduation ceremonies will quickly end if any "disruptive" behavior occurs.

Biden is set to travel to the Atlanta campus of Morehouse, a historically Black college with alumni that include civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., to deliver the commencement speech on Sunday. His visit comes amid a wave of college campus protests over Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza.

The president being invited to deliver the commencement address prompted immediate backlash from Morehouse students and faculty opposed to his pro-Israel stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with some suggesting that a demonstration could be staged during the speech.

Morehouse President David Thomas told CNN in an interview published on Thursday that "prolonged shouting down" of Biden would not be tolerated, arguing that a "failed commencement" would be preferable to allowing "hate speech" to dominate the ceremony.

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1. I'll just leave this here...

The last sentence of the OP article:

"It is unclear whether a protest will actually take place during the ceremony, with student protest leaders saying they are "unaware of any plans to demonstrate," according to AP."

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2. I'll leave this here...

Two protests that were recently organized by Atlanta University Center, an organization involving four Atlanta-area historically Black colleges and universities, included chants of "Joe Biden f*** off" and "Biden, Biden, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide," according to the Associated Press (AP).

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3. Thank you, President Thomas