I watched the inaugeration today, and I must say that I was very pleased with our presidents speech. He is a wonderful man and I believe that he will help America come out of the slum it is in. One thing I noticed was the way he presented his speech and how I believe that it was quite different from past presidential speeches. This speech was uplifting and powerful and I believe that he will do everything in his power to uphold his promises.
Now the Inaugeration did have its flaws as well. One of them being the poem read by the women after obama's speech. That poem was horrible and the presentation of it was dreadfull. Unless there is some kind of new artistic way of reading poems that I havent been introduced to yet,( I dont know what this woman was thinking). Maybe the poem was just a little too deep for me to understand lol who knows.
Another flaw was the Rev. Lowery's speech. He made some good points, but the rhyme at the end I believe was offensive and unnecessary. He basically uplifted all other races accept for white people. We must realize that we cant fight descrimination with more descrimination.
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I think many people share your sentiments about Lowery's prayer. I'm not sure whether he took the words from this source or from somewhere else, but there's a song by Big Bill Broonzy, a blues singer from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s that has very similar lyrics. Maybe I'll play it in class. If you want to listen to the song or read the lyrics, it's called "Black, Brown and White."
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