The highlight of Barack Obama's inauguration, hands down, indisputably, was the Rev. Lowrey's poem - Beatnik style.::::::::
Part of it:
Where Yellow is mellow
and Brown stays around
Where red gets ahead
and white gets it right
I don't recall any acknowledgement about women as second class citizens, tho.
And why not Maya Angelou reading a poem?
But, did you hear when Feinstein asked everyone to stand up for Obama's swearing in, some folks in the front said, "Yes, we can and yes, we will."
that was pretty funny.
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