{"id":84427,"date":"2017-09-23T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84427"},"modified":"2017-09-23T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:58:30","slug":"84427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84427","title":{"rendered":"Howard U. Students Dis James Comey During Keynore Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Protesters Interrupt Comey\u2019s Speech At Howard University [VIDEO]<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84428\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/RTX31VTP-e1496859991614.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84428\" class=\"wp-image-84428 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/RTX31VTP-e1496859991614-1024x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/RTX31VTP-e1496859991614-1024x439.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/RTX31VTP-e1496859991614-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/RTX31VTP-e1496859991614-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2017. REUTERS\/Joshua Roberts &#8211; RTX31VTP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amber Athey<br \/>\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n<p>Former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s keynote speech at Howard University was interrupted by protesters singing \u201cWe Shall Not Be Moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<form id=\"dc-quiz-wrapper\" action=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/daily_caller\/ajax.php\" method=\"POST\">\n<div class=\"fine-print-footer\">\n<p class=\"quiz-fine-print-container\"><span class=\"quiz-fine-print\">Completing this poll entitles you to Daily Caller news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"quiz-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/footer\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a>\u00a0and<a class=\"quiz-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/footer\/terms-of-use\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<p>Comey was set to speak at Howard\u2019s 2017-18 convocation as the school\u2019s endowed chair of public policy, but he didn\u2019t receive a warm welcome from some students at the historically black college.<\/p>\n<p>A group of students in the back of the auditorium stood up during Comey\u2019s speech with their fists raised to indicate \u201cblack power.\u201d The group sang the old spiritual song, \u201cWe Shall Not Be Moved\u201d and broke out into chants about being black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said I love being black!\u201d one protester yelled, cuing the other protesters to repeat it back.\u00a0\u201cI love the color of my skin!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>WATCH:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH: Protesters sing &#8220;We Shall Not Be Moved&#8221; as former FBI Director James Comey takes stage at Howard University <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/k8TBMzujwd\">http:\/\/t.co\/k8TBMzujwd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/911250982566223874\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other students responded by chanting, \u201cLet him speak!\u201d After standing patiently for some time, Comey finally said,\u00a0\u201cI hope you\u2019ll listen to what I have to say. I listened to you for five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN reports some protesters chanted, \u201cget out James Comey, you are not our homie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/09\/22\/protesters-interrupt-comeys-speech-at-howard-university-video\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/09\/22\/protesters-interrupt-comeys-speech-at-howard-university-video\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters Interrupt Comey\u2019s Speech At Howard University [VIDEO]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}