History unfolds in D.C.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Various pre-inauguration festivities took place over the weekend in D.C., including the star studded “We Are One” celebration, and Young Jeezy’s “Presidential Status” party.
Yesterday, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, people gathered to at the Lincoln Memorial to recite the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Here is an excerpt:
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
From “We Are One”:
Barack and Michelle Obama
Sasha and Malia Obama
Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé
From “Presidential Status”:
Jay-Z performing
T.I.
Images: Africa Within, Concreteloop and The YBF
YSETERDAY A DREAM WAS CELBRATED TODAY A DREAM WAS ACHIEVED AND EVEN THO MR KING WAS NOT HERE TO SEE THIS DAY TRUST ME HE WOULDNT HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY I REALIZE NOW JUST LIKE ON NOV 5 WE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING THIS CANT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM ANYONE WHO DREAMS BIG HOPES BIGGER AND WONT LET ANYTHING STAND IN THERE WAY WE ALL NEED TO MODEL OURSELVES AFTER DR KING AND MR OBAMA THEY WENT THRU SO MUCH AND DIDNT SEEK THIS TYPE OF POWER BUT IT WAS BESTOWED UPON THEM, WE NEED TO ALL PUT GOD FIRST AND ALL THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU THESE ARE TO GODLY MEN WHO HAVE SSEN THE TOP!!! A BLACK MAN IS PRESIDENT IN THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD NOBODY SEEN THIS COMING AND THIS IS TRUE INSPRIATION TO GOOD FOR IT ALL BUT BE HUMBLE ABOUT…FOR IN THE BIBLE IT SAYS ONLY THE MEEK WILL ENTER GODS HEAVEN WE ARE SEEING SOMETHING TRULY EPIC!!!! WHATS UP RICK RUSS AND THE OH SO LOVELY KIKI
obama has the cutest daughters!!!