An Open Letter From Scripps Faculty on Commencement Speaker Madeleine Albright

The Student Life | April 8, 2016, 3:05 p.m.    



As concerned Scripps faculty members, we are outraged at the selection of Madeleine Albright as the 2016 Commencement speaker and will not participate in this year’s graduation ceremony.

We are all familiar with Albright’s recent problematic statement that “there is a special place in hell for women who do not support other women.” Our opposition to her speaking at commencement, however, has to do with her record during her service as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and U.S. Secretary of State. In those roles, she supported several policies that led to the deaths of millions of people. Most notoriously, when Albright was asked, in a 1996 interview on 60 Minutes, whether the deaths of half a million Iraqi children were a price worth paying for the sanctions--which she worked to maintain during her tenure as Secretary of State--she replied, “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

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