It’s really incredible: watching the Obamas walk hand-in-hand (which is beautiful in & of itself) to the White House just blows my mind. I’m not sure it’s actually sunk in yet that we actually pulled this off. Damn.
& What a mess he inherited, but still it’s incredible.
Here are some of the references made today, either directly or indirectly:
- Lowery opened with the words of what’s called the “negro national anthem” – called “lift every voice and sing” – originally written to introduce Booker T Washington.
- tanks into tractors = swords into plowshares. Interesting choice for a wartime president.
- the reference in the poem not just to picking cotton but to picking lettuce, which was a reference to the UFW & Cesar Chavez.
- Feinstein mentioned the ballot or the bullet, which is Malcolm X’s most famous speech.
Anyone catch any others?