This year’s graduation ceremonies became battlegrounds for radical activism, with some students hijacking the spotlight to push divisive ideologies instead of celebrating achievement. While hardworking families hoped to cheer their graduates, they were forced to endure lectures on “systemic oppression” and performative displays that mocked tradition.
Universities allowed these spectacles, proving they care more about political agendas than students’ futures. At one ceremony, a graduate replaced their cap’s tassel with a “Marxist fist” pin while ranting about “colonialist math.” Another group staged a “die-in” protest during the valedictorian speech, shouting demands to abolish campus police.
These stunts ignore real issues facing Black students, like soaring tuition costs and plummeting academic standards. While activists play revolutionary, conservative leaders are fighting to restore merit-based scholarships and vocational training programs that actually lift communities. Meanwhile, liberal policies have trapped Black graduates under mountains of student debt with useless degrees in “grievance studies.”
The irony? Many of these “woke” graduates can’t name basic historical facts about America but can recite every line of Critical Race Theory dogma. Their diplomas might as well say “Professional Victim” instead of biology or business. This isn’t empowerment—it’s intellectual bankruptcy.
Parents are waking up. They’re pulling kids from schools that prioritize propaganda over reading and math. States like Ohio are leading the charge, banning DEI bureaucracies that turned campuses into reeducation camps. Common sense is making a comeback, despite liberals screeching about “racism.”
True success stories get buried. While the media obsesses over protests, they ignore Black entrepreneurs launching businesses or veterans earning engineering degrees. These quiet achievers prove the American dream is alive—if you work hard instead of blaming others.
The solution isn’t more government programs. It’s families teaching self-reliance, faith, and personal responsibility. Conservative policies are creating trade schools and apprenticeships that lead to six-figure jobs without indoctrination. Let’s celebrate builders, not complainers.
Graduation should honor perseverance, not political theater. Until universities refocus on excellence over activism, they’ll keep losing students to schools that value skills over slogans. The real lesson? Freedom flourishes when we reject victimhood and embrace opportunity.
