Thomas Jefferson University apologizes after commencement presenter flubs names

Thomas Jefferson University apologizes after commencement presenter flubs names
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[@avg8056]

"Dee-Nice", "Jay-quillin", "block-ay", "A-A-ron"...

[@Christoph8]

TIM-OHTHY

[@tonyherdina9142]

I thought of that same video.

[@simonstevenson6686]

Jesseeka

[@dtsung3d]

I came here for this comment

[@mistymontalbano3967]

OMG!!! Yes. It’s the Key & Peele skit come to life 🤣

[@norbertonavac]

She was unable to pronounce Thomas though it’s the university’s name 🤣

[@louk597]

D.e.i

[@omalleycaboose5937]

Actually it's for a simple reason, the college gave her cards with only yhe phonetic spelling, and not the actual name for some reason, phonetics I learned phonetics in school for music class but it's certainly not a commonly taught thing, absolutely bad on the school's part, whoever had the idea to do that... brain dead, but the woman is fine

[@louk597]

@omalleycaboose5937 yeah I'm Sure the 80k a year university/ collages doesn't teach phonetic spelling.... this isn't a pre school or hight school this is the Highest of education we are speaking of.

[@omalleycaboose5937]

@@louk597 why would it be taught. Give me one reason it should be a mandatory class. The essential courses ro graduate college, certain amount of Math, English, science and whatever else... oh and also the required phonetics training

[@louk597]

@omalleycaboose5937 if you personally had to read a bunch of names out for a graduation I'm sure you would have Pre checked the list & made sure you could read them correctly in order to Not look Stupid or to trash other Big days up, But nah Not this person!. But sure keep making excuses for a DEI. Who didn't even bother to practice or pre check to make sure they could read them appropriately.

[@HeyItsMeeTee]

There ain't no way Thomas phonetically wrote Tah-mu-may on his sheet lets be so for real rn hahahahha

[@churrofornia7217]

had me yelling rn 😭😭

[@aaronsakhai]

The name of the friggin' school is Thomas University--- how did she mess that one up?

[@simsandsurgery1]

I mean if they were in IPA, I can see her getting some of these stumbling over what the symbols mean… They’re not intuitive and if you’re not trained, I can easily see not knowing how to pronounce them… Thomas > tɒməs Molly Elizabeth > mɑ.li ɪˈlɪzəbəθ Virginia > vɚˈd͡ʒɪn.jə Brotoski > bɹotaʊski That kinda explains too, why brotoski of all things was right while she stumbled over the others. I’m not sure that’s what happened but I could see someone who’s unfamiliar with those symbols stumbling around and producing some of those results.

[@e2rqey]

​@@simsandsurgery1wouldn't they just include both? like the way its normally written, along with the phonetic pronunciation?

[@MickeyMishra]

@@e2rqey So close to almost seeing it, yet so far....

[@ryanferry69]

Im just gonna go ahead and cross Thomas Jefferson university off the list of schools my kids can apply to.

[@nicholeperry64]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Teresaserbowski]

😂😂😂

[@KandiKlover]

You mean Tah-Moo-May Jefferson university 🤣

[@cherokee0728]

Please have this speaker evaluated. She was having a medical emergency😭😭😭 🤣

[@crazyralph6386]

And to think she’ll be in charge of someone else’s medical emergency one day?

[@aimee4119]

​@@crazyralph6386 Apparently the names were spelt phonetically which means she was stringing sounds together rather than reading names. Reading phonetically can be really difficult since it doesn't resemble any words we are familiar with.

[@the_original_bug_god]

​@@aimee4119 if you know how to read, you can read phonetically

[@errornull390]

Just black

[@bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

@@aimee4119 but how could she be reading that gibberish so confidently? why didn't she stop after like one or two names, she shouldve realized "holdup, something aint right"

[@Chavelo_00]

Okay what if She saw the Key & Peele sketch and wanted to do the funniest thing ever? 👀

[@Thrakerzog]

Congrats! You beat me to the Key and Peele comment! 🤣🤣🤣

[@iac4357]

"A. A. Ron ?" "Is there a A. A. Ron ?" "That's Aaron." "DON OFBA B!+CH !".

[@DrCorndog1]

DONKEY TEETH

[@pantheongaia]

She still failed HARD

[@zaak186]

ˈkæn ju ˈjuːvən riːd ðɪs ənd spiːk aʊt laʊd? aɪ wɑnt tuː siː juː traɪ

[@TommyGator92]

Next time, get an elementary school student.

[@CoraTreeCustomGuitars]

No longer required, thanks to DEI!

[@SOLOHeyman]

They’re using the phonetic portion of the name card as an excuse. Whoever read the cards also has the normal printed spelling of the names on each card.

[@williamwade3443]

She was an angry black lady taking her micro aggression out on the white students students 😂😂

[@thabrokenrecord3340]

The speaker was probably wondering why there were so many foreign students lol

[@willman9567]

She was doing it on purpose. Someone there commented that she pronounced the poc kids names perfectly.

[@sundaydiver]

@@willman9567 can you provide a source that would verify your claim?

[@willman9567]

@@sundaydiver It was in comment sections. I guess look through a few stories if you can find them. It makes sense. Those were extremely common names and we know activists do stupid shyt all the time to make their point. They don't care if they ruin someone's graduation.

[@TheTacMan1]

Imagine spending 4+ years of your life dedicated working towards a degree, and on the day meant to celebrate and reward your hard work the college provides someone incapable of even reading a simple name on a piece of paper.

[@louk597]

That's a D.e.i for ya

[@unluckytourist]

She was reading the names as written. Now think about how badly someone had to screw up to transcribe those names so badly

[@thischickDEJ]

@@unluckytouristthe students write them 😂😂😂😂

[@ho7092]

The speaker did this intentionally. Notice how the POC names are all pronounce correctly, while the non-POC names were all butchered. The names are written BOTH phonetically and in English on each card. This is to prevent this issue in case the phonetics are wrong. Pretty much did this to send a message to all non POC’s and their families.

[@studiojiggly8112]

@@ho7092Well said lol.

[@JZekis]

Loved how she got so much wrong but nailed Brotowski

[@TRex-dd4ze]

Yeah couldn't even say Camp. Probably after the ceremony someone asked her what her summer plans are and she said "Going camping" and nailed that though.

[@BRexxors]

lol she didn’t. She was close, but her last name was Brostoski.

[@Free2B3]

It was a prank by the uni. Staff..obviously!! She was able to read all the first difficult Arab names all right, basically she initially read the first few names of each group correctly, then BOOM.. she INTENTIONALLY messes up the other names so bad. Even the professor beside her didn't try to correct her bc he KNEW It's a joke!!

[@maemccleary3283]

Why didnt someone else step in and stop this nonsense. An entire graduating class, theur families and professors stood there and let this continue? Wow.

[@williamrockwell9705]

No one can say anything to the royalty of this dead nation.

[@sunyata4974]

None of the college staff can pronounce the names because they are all DEI hires.

[@KandiKlover]

To be multicultural, she was doing it on purpose to try and fake being more ethnic and show off in front of everyone.

[@Animebryan2]

Speaking of stopping this nonsense, how the fuck do you fuck up the word their with theur?

[@MrsShocoTaco]

Thw phonetic spelling of "Thomas" looks nothinng like "tah-moo-may." This seems intentional.

[@Jordan117]

Full name would be "ˈtɑməs ˈmaɪkəl kɑnɛˈvɑri", she was saying the first name and part of the middle.

[@jazzymichael]

​@@Jordan117She didn't say the first name, only the first syllable. Based on that phonetic spelling, she didn't say anything correctly at all.

[@mmason9836]

It sounds like she's trying to replace English names with ethnic sounding equivalent.

[@bradysmotrilla5788]

@@willman9567racist as hell

[@willman9567]

@@bradysmotrilla5788 I was just banded for 24 hour hours. Wtf! Can't wait until KZbin is brought up on charges.

[@MrCyberShow]

Is that John Travolta reading the names.

[@SasukeFromPart1]

The WICKEDLY talented Adele Dazeem.

[@lilu1133]

@@SasukeFromPart1happy 10th birthday to adele dazeem!

[@glitterbaby00]

@@SasukeFromPart1this lives rent free in my head fortnightly

[@plee6223]

Was this person have a history with strokes?

[@sheilaanderson321]

😂😂Lmaooo

[@JdmgjnFjahgks]

Nah just black, they legit can't read

[@MickeyMishra]

@@JdmgjnFjahgks I feel so bad for people that can't read so good. If only Zoolander had finished that school.

[@sailorspud_236]

How do you fuck up "Thomas" its literally in the schools name!

[@Jordan117]

Because it was spelled "ˈtɑməs"

[@TimShingermeickle]

​@@Jordan117then how did you she pronounce it "to ma may"? That excuse makes no sense.. its idiotic

[@rogaken]

​@@TimShingermeickle ˈtɒməs ˈmaɪkᵊl. Maybe combined with his last name? Maybe she doesn't know where the first name ended. Idk.

[@raultelles9896]

​@Jordan117 it wasn't written that way

[@kreatingsound4946]

everything is possible now thanks to DEI

[@ckamal1]

she's trolling. she can pronounce Brotoski perfectly but not Elizabeth? cmon

[@kabirdas2786]

😂😂 she did not pronounce it perfectly lol

[@louk597]

DEI

[@silentkaine9352]

Its spelt phonetically do you not get it imagine seeing "toe-mass-mike-ale-can-e-vary" written on a piece of paper and being asked to piece it together in front of hundreds of people in a few seconds

[@melissabenson6749]

​@@silentkaine9352 They showed the card had the name & phonetic spelling! The names & pronunciations should've been practiced hours prior so any corrections could've been made! There's ZERO excuse for this!!!

[@louk597]

@@silentkaine9352 are you trying to tell us the university/ college didn't Do a practice Run to see if everybody could do the task assigned to them! Are you telling us if you had the job of reading out the students names You Yourself wouldn't have Practice or went over it to make sure you could do it properly.... because a DEI wouldn't.

[@danielmccoy-md3zd]

The excuses are worse than what happened….like how do you mispronounce Molly or Thomas??? That’s an absolute DISGRACE and the top brass at Jefferson should be beyond embarrassed and horrified!!!

[@mannzer41]

Mispronounced a student named Thomas graduating from fkn Thomas University. Another level of stupid or complete troll

[@Jordan117]

In the IPA phonetic spelling used on the cards, Molly is ˈmɑli and Thomas is ˈtɑməs

[@willman9567]

She was doing it on purpose. She didn't mess up everyone's name, just the white kids.

[@danielmccoy-md3zd]

@@Jordan117 then Jefferson is a bunch of total idiots if they had cards with JUST phonetic spelling…that’s so moronic that it’s hard to believe to be the case. Most people are wondering if Jefferson is taking the embarrassing hit for the speaker, who as someone pointed out was messing up white names. I’m gonna take my guess that those cards had the actual names on it along with phonetic spelling

[@andrewgillim5952]

​@@Jordan117 Still not "Tah-moo-may"

[@Needsmoreflash]

She's probably thinking "damn, there's that word again. Elizabeth is a popular name" 😂

[@MagneticNorthbound]

My diploma from Too Mass Jay Son Oonyerse Teep feels less valuable now, somehow, sadly.

[@ricksiddiqui8354]

People will be selling their diplomas online to pay for their much needed therepy

[@Soohoo-rv3sn]

Look at the bright side, at least millions of people watched their ceremony😂😂

[@jennifermcclain4478]

Why would the announcer even have to have the names spelled phonetically? Can she not even read?

[@pvzmariosonica8fan]

"Wanted-wa-wanted" "Pffff, kid can't even read."

[@jlee739]

And this is how the highest education standards is upheld, embarrassing.

[@brandogg]

There's no way this wasn't intentional

[@xsxm3116]

Even if it was, why would she do that? Just to troll?

[@martinonuegbu1384]

@@xsxm3116who knows, but def intentional… probably wanted Americans to know how internationals feel… def on purpose

[@williamrockwell9705]

@@xsxm3116 Because non-Whites don't like that we cannot pronounce their silly names so they think they are getting on over on us by doing the same.

[@jebby16]

Envy, jealousy, revenge, white grads? Take your pic.

[@IHopeYoureOffended69]

That’s a small price international students pay having their names mispronounced. I’m sure they are crying themselves to sleep for having their names occasionally pronounced because it was formed in conjunction with a different language. People come here knowing that English is the primary language spoken here, and in the business world. Where it shouldn’t happen is from a university located in the United States. Asian people do it right when they name themselves names like “Joey” and “Betty” as their American names. They don’t b1tch about it.

[@Jarhead0331]

Wtf? They just grab an English as a ninth language student?

[@qr330]

They don't show you the parts of the clip where the DEI hire pronounces every POC name perfectly.

[@GwladYrHaf]

So you’re saying she’s not illiterate but she’s racist ?

[@susansmith4362]

THOMAS Jefferson University and she couldn't even pronounce THOMAS.....hmmmm

[@marcneef795]

Thomas Jefferson sounds like a boring white person. Why would she know him?

[@xilingsinqueso]

I really lost it at Sarah and Thomas! 😂

[@19th-Nervous-Breakdown]

And the school name is THOMAS Jefferson.

[@chadettwein7667]

Oovoon?

[@TheDantheman12121]

I need to see this whole thing.i NEED IT!!!!

[@rwilson40]

Key and Peele are cracking up now!

[@pvzmariosonica8fan]

*C H U R L I S H*

[@ricklannis6244]

It's actually fitting and appropriate for how far the American educational standards have fallen. You have people graduating university that can't even spell properly.

[@Deerrus]

Agree, they hand degrees out like candy these days 🙄

[@SayWhat336]

it was intentional

[@drexeldragon1723]

​@@Deerrusdon't disrespect the graduates like that

[@jamesc.1808]

Why are they protecting the name of the woman who mispronounced? Does anyone know her name?

[@williamrockwell9705]

Of course they always protect.

[@nabootheenigma]

They do, but they don’t know how to pronounce it

[@JosephBrach]

Took me forever but I found her. Dr. Valerie Clary-Muronda…. PhD

[@williamrockwell9705]

@@JosephBrach What an insult to those with a PhD.

[@rtblaze7915]

I think you can get a glimpse of her (at least her hair) standing behind the president of the college or whoever the man is in the graduation cap. The fact they aren't showing her would suggest...

[@jackguerrero7256]

I smell a cover-up. "Tah-Moo-May"-gate.

[@rtblaze7915]

lol

[@ak1200]

Key and Peele would be proud.

[@jaaayyy4469]

i think this was racial . kinda like a payback for minority names being mispronounced. completely unprofessional. no way she couldn’t say thomas or elizabeth .

[@williamrockwell9705]

That is all it is and it shows what a mistake it was to allow these monsters to dwell among us.

[@Jo-fy2fc]

“You done messed up! AA Ron. Take yourself down to O Shag Hennessy’s Office! “

[@kimmiek3]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@Jo-fy2fc]

@@kimmiek3 your happy is just churlish!!! Kimckie!

[@kimmiek3]

@@Jo-fy2fc 😂🤣

[@Jo-fy2fc]

@@kimmiek3 thank you for having a sense of humor and a good sport!

[@kimmiek3]

@@Jo-fy2fcIt runs in the family. 🤣😂Thank you for that comment. I will say that was the best skit of their show. When he knocked that stuff off the desk, I hollered with laughter.

[@mlaiuppa]

I call bovine excrement. No way you get those mispronunciations from phonetic spellings. The announcer was either foreign with very little command of the English language or illiterate. Also lazy as she obviously didn't even practice these names in advance or ask for pronunciations. This was extremely disrespectful to these students. As a teacher I did my best to pronounce my students names correctly and had them correct me every day until I said they properly.

[@tameikarease2389]

As someone who has helped with many many graduations over the past 19 years, I’m telling you whoever wrote out the name cards, set her up. You usually don’t have time to rehearse them. They did not write outs the pronunciations correctly.

[@williamrockwell9705]

@@tameikarease2389 Whatever! She clearly did it on purpose which is why the system is protecting her.

[@MickeyMishra]

@@williamrockwell9705 BINGO!

[@martinonuegbu1384]

@@williamrockwell9705supposedly her name is Dr Valerie Clary Muronda

[@laterferaligatr2947]

Bovine excrement...I'm fckin WEAK 🤣🤣🤣

[@christopherquattlebaum9766]

She must have went to the Derek Zoolander school for kids who can't read good.

[@skreekarose3610]

How embarrassing for that presenter and the university! There’s absolutely no excuse for this! JFC!

[@willman9567]

Another commenter said she pronounced the poc kids names perfectly. Most likely they had an activist in there.

[@MickeyMishra]

@@willman9567 Time to call a spade spade, another american terrorist in the making that's hates americans, the American way of life and our affinity to pay homage to our history as a nation of immigrants from colonial european history.

[@VicLabs]

The reader was using the phonetic spellings that appear right next to the actual spelling. Even so, phonetic spellings have been used at graduations for ages now. This lady not only had never done this, but had never read a phonetic spelling, or had the common sense to switch to the written spelling. She surely could not have believed some white kid was named “Tahmoomay.” The university sent out perhaps the least competent person they could find.

[@cjohnson9211]

DEI hire

[@willman9567]

Someone there commented it was just the white kids she was doing that to, which makes more sense. An activist.

[@MickeyMishra]

@@willman9567 Shhhh.... This is going too good, lets just go with what they are spinning it as, a Nursing school that passes kids that can't read.

[@R-Lee-]

That's what you get when you use diversity hires

[@OctagonCookies]

@@willman9567My man you heard some guy making an accusation and your brain told you to start spreading this to every single comment you find without ever checking if it’s actually true? Whats wrong with you?

[@MTBAviator]

The phonetic guide is there if you come across a difficult name. Not Molly or Thomas. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Sweetestsadist]

That excuse is a lie. Thomas. Phonetically, "Tom-Ess". That does not in any way come out "Tom-Moo-May". It's even in the school's name: "Thomas Jefferson University".

[@Jordan117]

It's International Phonetic Alphabet spelling. The guy's name would have looked like "ˈtɑməs ˈmaɪkəl kɑnɛˈvɑri". You try sounding that out when a crowd is laughing at you.

[@courtneysorensen5363]

They clearly needed to get someone who knows how to read IPA. It’s like when the cops kept hiring someone to do the ASL for their news conferences and they totally were doing gibberish with their hands

[@Sweetestsadist]

@@Jordan117 Your example only supports my claim. It is a stretch to think "Tames Maikel" resemble "Tomoomay". No "oo" present. No "S" mentioned. Mixing of two different words." Phonetic alphabet is very easy to read if you know how letters sound. I easily read your example. There's no excuse for a presenter at a college to read that poorly. This is why college is now a joke and accepting weak excuses for it isn't going to make it better.

[@carsenyoungdesign]

@@Sweetestsadist The schwa is also sometimes written as "uh." "tah-muhs mai" certainly would still not be "tomooh may" but I don't think it's quite so wacky a pronunciation as to disbelieve it could happen by accident

[@thnkngreen]

Shame on them.. Took their money and disrespect the graduates with unintelligible language. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@ComebackKing-f1v]

That Part When the teacher can't read😂

[@brianloughnane781]

How about reimbursing the students for their tuition costs? They were made laughingstock’s to the nation. That’s a lot of pain and suffering.

[@johns8594]

Hire someone that speaks English

[@CoraTreeCustomGuitars]

Why does a college professor NEED phonetic spellings? 10/10 this is a DEI hire

[@kamiya617]

Every university does this so that students names are pronounced correctly it’s just this time got super fucked up

[@logan9920]

The lies to cover it up are worse

[@sly2772]

When tranquavius came up, she pronounced it correctly

[@williamsmiler184]

😂😂😂😂

[@Nonayabizness360]

😂😂😂😂 I would ask for my money back! If these are the people teaching my children.

[@tonyherdina9142]

Who was this woman that read the names?

[@GwladYrHaf]

AOC?

[@liamsandal6360]

Valerie Clary-Muronda, an obese black woman who teaches in the Thomas Jefferson University Nursing School.

[@derronsanchez391]

Omg. Please tell me this human is not on someone’s payroll

[@MickeyMishra]

Be nice... Reading lies on television is real work. Just like Trans women are real women.

[@liamsandal6360]

The "reader" was Valerie Clary-Muronda, an obese black woman who teaches in the Thomas Jefferson University Nursing School.

[@ItsMeKyle1882]

Funny thing is all the DEI graduate's names were pronounced correctly using the phonetic "cheat cards". It was all the other, common names that got butchered. Sorry, Mah-lee-nah Zo-beth and Tah-moo-may 😂😂😂!!!

[@williamrockwell9705]

Blax hate White people. Film at 11.

[@HenningDiesel]

The question is why have someone as presenter who struggles to read common names? Is she a professor there?

[@MickeyMishra]

they won't say...

[@HenningDiesel]

@@MickeyMishra I take it as confirmation by omission then.

[@JosephBrach]

She is. Her name is Dr. Valerie Clary-Muronda

[@MickeyMishra]

@@JosephBrach Danka!

[@HenningDiesel]

@@JosephBrach Exactly as I imagined.

[@bconni2]

she was purposely trying to make the names sound African.

[@pagesalivetheater]

Purposefully done.

[@anut8733]

Straight up Ba-Lakay and A-A-Ron moment 😂

[@bluescitygarage]

What’s sad is this person most likely teaches and the students probably can’t understand what she says. My daughter graduated from Mississippi Sate with a dual degree in Biochemistry and Mathematics. she had a chemistry professor who when asked repeatedly a question he finally said goo goo it. She filmed this interaction if the students can’t understand you the can not learn.

[@ImternetExplorer]

She was given the phonetic pronunciation on her cards, did you not hear that part?

[@bluescitygarage]

If you’re a university professor and can’t pronounce the name Thomas English is not your first language. My youngest graduated from the University of Mississippi this past Friday and they pronounced every name correctly.

[@ImternetExplorer]

@@bluescitygarage the lady literally said sorry and that she would be able to read it as normal. You can look it up, the phonetics were presented in a way that made it hard. She couldn’t see the normal spellings.

[@michellesimien3437]

Was she having a stroke? If not, this has to be embarrassing for the university, because come on...

[@williamrockwell9705]

Oh is it? Every single day everyone can see this behavior yet no one appears to have a problem.

[@MickeyMishra]

@@williamrockwell9705 Everyday when people say "Oh they have woken up", it's just a false hope.

[@gilwood7530]

If you dont think this was done intentionally , wake up

[@MickeyMishra]

Come on man, that's not nice. She can't help being born the way women are. It's almost a disability. And you know they don't even know what to do with computers. That New York Mayor said so! Be more understanding please of their talented & gifted status.

[@thetelemarkdaydream8896]

Hahahahaha. Key and Peale substitute teacher moment. Where's Blaw kay?

[@alberttang6955]

He got sent to O Shag Henessey's office along with Ay Ay Ron.

[@AEMoreira81]

@@alberttang6955 -- And with Jay Quellin and D-Nice!

[@pvzmariosonica8fan]

​@@AEMoreira81And called churlish!

[@frankcastle9991]

Speaker needs to go back to 3rd grade.

[@ks4733]

Where can i watch the whole ceremony please 😅

[@jonsampiro]

Not buying the "written phonetically" excuse. Somebody can't read. (Why do you even need to write Thomas or Elizabeth or Molly phonetically?)

[@TeeJay_Fringe]

I played this out loud and my furniture started levitating.

[@ks4733]

Alissuna Mollyna… where did she find the ending na??😂😂

[@PhoenixForceTravelAgency]

I love that the students that they showed were able to laugh about it. I would have too but I understand if others were pissed. I worked hard and paid all this money. The least you can do is pronounce my name right!!! 🥴

[@ccurrie9672]

Why didn't someone take over? Can this person even read?

[@pay2000]

there you have your diversity

[@dp248]

Was the announcer a US citizen?

[@MickeyMishra]

@@Joe-sg9ll Lunchtime rowdies I heard. Not sure what that is.

[@garbagemanbear406]

Valerie clary muronda is the name

[@ssbeets]

Why couldn't there be an Aaron...A A ron 😅😂

[@malgudidays3311]

She totally butchered the names. Had there been a Muslim name ; there would have been cries of racism. Whatever happened to the American education system.

[@williamrockwell9705]

It was taken over by people that hate America and actual Americans.

[@andrewgill9489]

How’s that DEI working out! Biggest day of their young lives and this is what they get. 🤦‍♂️

[@quaneviya809]

What does the announcer have to do with DEI. Anything to just take away inclusivity from people of color.

[@happyislandman]

How is Syeer phonetically close the spelling of Sarah. Soind this out S-air-ah.

[@aubsta1]

Mr. Garvey ?

[@franciscoarballo4940]

This is like the substitute teacher sketch from Key and Peele.

[@poopedcheetah2]

imagine not being smart enough to know it wasn't right

[@TiaKruimel]

She knew

[@emsa5034]

Y’all are mistaking PHONETICS with PHONICS. Phonics is what we learned to use how to read in second grade. PHONETICS is the spelling showing how to pronounce each syllable in a word.

[@y2shuproblem]

She be making Mr. Garvey proud

[@mgreen351]

Somebody’s a comedian

[@clydedenby1436]

How's that diversity working out for ya?

[@daniellebillingsley2003]

What happened here? Did she lose a bet?! This woman is a native English Speaker. She pronounced the name of her own school wrong. Only in America can you become a college professor without learning to read. My mother read the names at her university for years. She spent a week ahead of time learning the names specifically so this would not happen. Even if you don't have time to prepare, just sound it out! Tragic.

[@nabootheenigma]

Actually she is not a native English speaker, English is her second language

[@chandlerblachut3878]

@@nabootheenigmawhy would a none native English speaker be reading English names at an American university? I image Chinese universities don’t have people from Peru read their names

[@williamrockwell9705]

@@chandlerblachut3878 Because we live in an occupied dead nation.

[@BOOSETO]

Couldn't even pronounce Thomas and thats in the name of the school 😅 DEI's finest.

[@FerrisSOCAL]

Who has never said the name Allison or Thomas? It was like they were trying to make every name sound like it came from a diff continent.

[@Thomas-vj1mf]

Yeah...afreeka.

[@chickenisindeedmystyle7316]

Taste of your own medicine, cry more

[@JS-po8oc]

Who is that DEI, she's literally a white woman

[@ricklannis6244]

@@JS-po8oc 😂😂🤣🤣There's a zero percent chance that's a white woman

[@timgriffin639]

Phoenetic spelling is EASIER to read aloud. Easier. That obviously was not the problem.

[@louk597]

DEI

[@lateworm]

imagine having an illiterate token present you graduation

[@SunBunz]

I feel bad for Thomas. People are going to call him “Tom Moo May” for the rest of his life.

[@KiyoshiItatsu]

the best part is that the school name is Thomas Jefferson University, and she can't even pronounce Thomas right!

[@InsidetheCasino]

Anyone reminded of the Key and Peele "Substitute Teacher" video? "Bah-lah-kay". Don't have to see the presenter to know, if you know what I mean.

[@pvzmariosonica8fan]

"Blaaaaaaaake"

[@lyndafinnell2336]

That was intentional and no one stepped in to correct it really? That university is so bad. Definitely intentional.

[@martinonuegbu1384]

I think they stepped in after maybe like 10-20 names

[@justaguy4788]

It was obviously a black woman, probably doing it on purpose

[@drexeldragon1723]

Racism is so fucking lame. GTFO

[@jlee739]

Exactly! They’re insufferable tbh

[@darthvega]

They have lowest swipes on dating apps They are ignorant and uncouth brutes

[@MickeyMishra]

@@drexeldragon1723 Agreed. The school just passes people who don't know how to read to be nurses. Really scary what they at these paid for schools. Everyone should have their degrees evaluated before any plane doors fall off again. This school is a danger to the Medical profession.

[@liamsandal6360]

The reader was Valerie Clary-Muronda, an obese black woman who teaches in the Thomas Jefferson University Nursing School.

[@mondop5270]

She was literally to inept to problem solve the basic principle of referring to the phonetic help section when coming across a name that was less obvious than molly... honestly, how does someone gain employment at a university when they have a complete inability to think even slightly laterally??? Surely after mispronouncing the first name, jeez even the second, the fact they sounded soooooo frikin unlike any name ever youd stop to take stock of what was going on

[@Jordan117]

She messed up BECAUSE the cards used the phonetic spelling. IPA spelling is almost unreadable if you don't know how.

[@ghostlyemperor4557]

@@Jordan117then why did they let her speak then?

[@williamrockwell9705]

@@ghostlyemperor4557 You know why.

[@MickeyMishra]

@@williamrockwell9705 made the News as it was the black women being intentionally disrespectful & Prejudice to the Jewish Children's names. That is the only reason you are hearing about this.

[@courtneysorensen5363]

Unless things have changed, usually it’s the graduate themselves who write the phonetic way of saying it. How could so many graduates write the phonetic pronunciation of their own name so unrecognizable? And Thomas is literally in the name of the school.

[@MickeyMishra]

made the News as it was the black women being intentionally disrespectful & Prejudice to the Jewish Children's names.

[@aiheim6971]

the students were mature enough to just go along with it xD

[@narazaro1791]

I don't want to hear back talk from you BolockKay. JayQuellin is perfectly able to pronounce these names

[@alberttang6955]

"You done messed up, Ay Ay Ron!"

[@NehpetsRellek]

A speaker in the university who can't speak the English language.

[@TomMcBoston]

But she is diverse and inclusive, that is all that matters.

[@NehpetsRellek]

@@TomMcBoston yeah, and she's probably a scatter braind democrat.

[@MickeyMishra]

@@TomMcBoston Id's there gray tests Drank.

[@TomMcBoston]

@@MickeyMishra Huh?

[@MickeyMishra]

@@TomMcBoston Diversity.

[@michaelh370]

Was this the ebonics translations?

[@Mtn_Mig]

This is what universities have become - a joke

[@marissaharrison895]

Maeve, we see you! Congratulations! Form Grandma J.'s friend.

[@curiousnomadic]

This is what happens when someone was taught to read on Common Core principles.

[@sydneyfarries747]

She had to be drunk 🤣🤣🤣 this how my Auntie be yelling at the kids when she’s had a few to many at the family function!! 😂😂 As a college graduate I request a re-do bc we go through too much to get to this day to be played with like this 🤣🤣

[@Ron71997]

A 6 year old could read the names better..... What was the point of having this speaker. She even seemed uncomfortatble. I get the reason which is ridiculous- how embarrassing for the University and so insulting to the students. Do better.