Graduation Speech: Its All About Us! :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Hello Class of 2012I assure you that no matter what your p arnts are thinkingwhich is something a large the lines of, I did a great job with him or hertheir conceited thoughts are irrelevant to this occasion. Its not rough them its about us.Contrary also to what the board members (who youll visualise today for the startle and last time) believe, that theyve earned the undecomposed to hand us our diplomas due to their perfect decision making (comedic stare and pause), this moment is also not about them save again, about us.Then, in inverse to what every lawyer and doctor, teacher, business owner, and worker in general is thinkingwhich is something along the lines of, blah blah blah, I withdraw my graduationtheyre just daydreams. This is not about them either its about us.And when we leave this place to pursue separate ambitions, the attention provide never fade, the hate will never subside, the mountains will outgrowth without fail. No matter how many people have blazed a pat h, rivers will not part, expectations will not reduce and w presentfore it will still be about us.And though we continue to grow even after being handed the diploma, to understand life, and choices, the opposite sex, the pressure of here and now, the strain placed on us from long ago, and the demands that our future will fire upon us, there will be close calls, fatalities, elation, affliction, and joy. And thus, it will remain about us.When others see us they see half of us in jail, some of us unemployed, some pregnant currently or in a month or two. They see as well many blacks or too many Latinos or too many whites or Asians or Native-Americans for us to make anything of ourselves. duration these thoughts are derogatory, the fact is they are still about us.When we, however, see ourselves, we see doctors, lawyers, preachers, presidents, teachers, and outstanding members of their fields and society in general, and what we think has been and will be the solo thing that matters be cause what we think was created by us.And we break the statistics that say this many go to jail and this many become pregnant. And we reconcile stereotypes that encourage different members of society to conclude from interacting with other members of society, and we become the long awaited for female or Black president, the owners of this and the CEO of that.Graduation Speech Its All About Us Graduation Speech, kickoff AddressHello Class of 2012I assure you that no matter what your parents are thinkingwhich is something along the lines of, I did a great job with him or hertheir conceited thoughts are irrelevant to this occasion. Its not about them its about us.Contrary also to what the board members (who youll see today for the first and last time) believe, that theyve earned the right to hand us our diplomas due to their perfect decision making (comedic stare and pause), this moment is also not about them but again, about us.Then, in opposition to what every lawyer and doctor, teacher, business owner, and worker in general is thinkingwhich is something along the lines of, blah blah blah, I remember my graduationtheyre just daydreams. This is not about them either its about us.And when we leave this place to pursue separate ambitions, the attention will never fade, the hate will never subside, the mountains will increase without fail. No matter how many people have blazed a path, rivers will not part, expectations will not reduce and therefore it will still be about us.And though we continue to grow even after being handed the diploma, to understand life, and choices, the opposite sex, the pressure of here and now, the strain placed on us from long ago, and the demands that our future will fire upon us, there will be close calls, fatalities, elation, affliction, and joy. And thus, it will remain about us.When others see us they see half of us in jail, some of us unemployed, some pregnant currently or in a month or two. They see too many blacks or too many Latinos or too many whites or Asians or Native-Americans for us to make anything of ourselves. While these thoughts are derogatory, the fact is they are still about us.When we, however, see ourselves, we see doctors, lawyers, preachers, presidents, teachers, and outstanding members of their fields and society in general, and what we think has been and will be the only thing that matters because what we think was created by us.And we break the statistics that say this many go to jail and this many become pregnant. And we reconcile stereotypes that encourage different members of society to refrain from interacting with other members of society, and we become the long awaited for female or Black president, the owners of this and the CEO of that.