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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

Common at the White House Poetry Night

This is a short video of Common at the White House Poetry Night. The video doesn't contain the whole recital of his poem but I included it below.




“I woke up with the sunshine. A sunshine I had never seen.
There was light at the end of it. Reminded me to forever dream.
I was dreaming I walked into the White House. With love on my sleeve.
And love for each and every one of you. Reminding you to believe. These are the words of a believer achiever.
Leader of the globe, feed the souls of those in need.
I bleed the blood of the struggle. Walking over troubled puddles.
The hustle is in my chest. No hustle no progress.
Extremities of life in this process. The birth of a son.
The death of another. With love I caress both mothers.
And told ‘em whose in control is the one that’s above is.
I walk where money talks and love stutters.
The body language of a nation. Going though changes. The young become dangerous.
Spent into anger. Anger gets sent through the chamber.
It’s tough when your own look like strangers. We are the sons of gangsters and stone rangers. If he could how would Ernie Barnes paint us?
Look at the picture. It’s hard not to blame us.
But time forgives in the shy where the young die often. Do they end up in a coffin because we haven’t taught them?
Is it what we talkin’, we really ain’t walking. Dudes, hustlers, paid. How much did it cost them?
I find myself on the same corner that we lost them. Real talkin’ in their ear like a walkman.
My thoughts been around the corner to the world. So when I see them I see my baby girl.
The Lord lives among us. The youngest hunger, recover.
Means to get it by anyways necessary under pressure. Children feeling lesser with the spill upon the dresser.
Killer, willer aggressors. Destiny’s children, survivors, soldiers.
In front of buildings their eyes look older. It’s hard to see blessings in a violent culture.
Face against rappings. Sirens holsters – that ‘aint the way that Langston Hughes wrote us.
So controllers on the shoulders of Moses. And Noah. We go from being precious to Oprah.
Cultivated to overcome. Ever since we came over.
Seize the day in the way that you can see the determined. The soul that keeps burning. Shorty’s know to keep learning. Lessons in my life are like stripes that we earning.
I took Grant’s advice that Christ is returning. Like a thief in the night. I write for beacons of light.
For those of us in dark alleys and park valleys. Street hits spark valleys of the conscience. Conquerors of a contest . Even the unseen know that God watches.
For one King’s dream he was able to Barack us.
One King’s dream he was able to Barack us.
One King’s dream he was able to Barack us.”

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Presidential Innaugration

Barack Obama was officially sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America.

SOURCE concreteloop.com

Here is a bit of his address

My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

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And here is a video of the Barack Obama and his wife at the Inaugural Ball.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

CHANGE

Cartoon of the Day on stuff.co.nz



SOURCE: stuff.co.nz

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

President Elect: Barack Obama

It's Official, USA's 44th president is Barack Obama.



Watch his acceptance speech