{"id":31506,"date":"2022-05-07T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=31506"},"modified":"2022-05-07T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:00:26","slug":"harris-urges-grads-to-tackle-problems-in-unsettled-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/07\/harris-urges-grads-to-tackle-problems-in-unsettled-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris urges grads to tackle problems in unsettled world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Kamala Harris urged graduates of Tennessee State University on Saturday to apply their leadership skills to help tackle the multitude of challenges posed by an unsettled world.<\/p>\n
In her undergraduate commencement speech at the historically Black university in Nashville, Harris said the Class of 2022 stands \u201con the brink of a new frontier,\u201d pointing to the prospects of more breakthroughs in technology and medical research.<\/p>\n
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But with war raging in Ukraine, the risks from climate change and basic freedoms under threat in the United States, graduates are stepping off into an uncertain future, she said.<\/p>\n
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The vice president also stressed her connection to the Tennessee State graduates as a fellow graduate of another historically Black university. She recalled seeing Howard University, her alma mater, the first time she flew on the vice presidential helicopter. While reminiscing about her time as a student, she said it reinforced the realization that \u201cI could be anything, do anything, even if it had never been done before \u2014 like you.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Harris \u2014 the first female U.S. vice president, and the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent in the role \u2014 received a rousing welcome from the commencement crowd.<\/p>\n
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While the graduates are entering a world “full of possibility,\u201d the vice president also pointed to a series of challenges threatening \u201cfundamental principles\u201d across the globe and in the United States.<\/p>\n
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens \u201cinternational rules and norms,” Harris said. In the U.S., she pointed to the need to protect voting rights and women’s rights.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou graduate into an unsettled world both abroad and here at home,” Harris said. \u201cIn the United States, we are once again forced to defend fundamental principles that we hoped were long settled,\u201d she said. “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.\u201d<\/p>\n