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Re: [xmca] A magic moment
Carol Macdonald says:
What I found interesting was the poetic nature of his speech--"not this...
but this" and no sign of any notes. It was most endearing when the chief
justice gave him chunks that were too large in his oath and he got a bit
lost. For heaven's sake, when you get married they give you bite size chunks
to follow!! A guy at church last night wondered why we are only able to
raise up black leaders in the last two decades. Well I think they had to
fight from the bottom up, and have the dignity not to berate us for our
despicable behaviour in the past. Instead they give *us* dignity... .
2009/1/21 Mary van der Riet <VanDerRiet@ukzn.ac.za>
> Indeed - the whole world is/was watching
> Nelson Mandela referred to him as: new hope for the world
>
> Mary
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> >>> Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> 2009/01/20 12:07 PM >>>
> Likewise in Australia. There is an Obama Party being held in
> our street as I write and the TV covergae goes all night
> tonight. Everyone seems to have projected their own hopes
> and aspirations on to this guy, worldwide.
>
> Andy
>
> Beatrice Ligorio wrote:
> > Mike I just want to add that this event was a great emotion for Europe
> too.
> > We are all watching America as a new hope for global change. So much
> > expectations are coming from this new American president and his new way
> > of leading a powerful country, so influencial on the rest of the world.
> > The wave got till the old continent :-)
> >
> > Bea
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duvall, Emily" <emily@uidaho.edu>
> > To: <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>; "eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity"
> > <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:11 AM
> > Subject: RE: [xmca] A magic moment
> >
> >
> > Thank you Mike.
> > Good luck to us all.
> > ~em
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
> > On Behalf Of Mike Cole
> > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:01 PM
> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> > Cc: communication@ucsd.edu; Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
> > Internal List
> > Subject: [xmca] A magic moment
> >
> > Dear Xmca-ers--
> >
> > Tonight is a magic moment. In the Los Angeles Times this morning there
> > was
> > an
> > editorial "cartoon" that had a picture of the Calendar with Martin
> > Luther
> > King, on
> > January 19th, pointing to the future-- of January 20th, when, Humanity
> > willing, when
> > an African-American will become president of the United States.
> >
> > I feel unbelievably luck to be alive, present, and, in my small
> > peripheral
> > way, a participant
> > in such an event. The site of Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing
> > Arlo
> > Guthrie's hymn
> > to the promise of this troubled country with its checkered history in
> > front
> > of Lincoln's statue
> > yesterday was a sight I NEVER expected to live to see. When I was a
> > child,
> > my family's anti-
> > racism and belief in social justice produced some very hard times. When
> > I
> > went to graduate
> > school in Indiana and picketed Woolworth's literally dogged by the
> > police,
> > my New York liberal
> > friends thought it was so obvious and unnecessary they couldn't be
> > bothered.
> > When I returned
> > from the USSR in 1963 and did not know enough to turn south from New
> > York to
> > be present in
> > Washington for MLK's speech at the Lincoln memorial, but had to hear it
> > while driving west on the
> > Pennsylvania turnpike, we felt the lost opportunity sorely.
> >
> > All events, long past.
> >
> > LCHC holds this truth to be self evident: All persons are created equal.
> > We
> > are rendered unequal
> > by the environment into which we are born, an environment that, in the
> > general ideological-theoretical
> > assumptions of xmca, is not forced upon human beings locked into an iron
> > cage, but is, with proper
> > respect and humility, constructed and (may our grand children hope)
> > preserved by the actions we take
> > now. today. tomorrow. and the days following.
> >
> > Gotta turn off the TV. The trivia level is almost more than I can bear.
> > Better to turn to friends coming to
> > celebrate and pray for the future, and to listen to Pete Seeger leading
> > the
> > nation in us thought that,
> > just maybe, we can overcome.
> >
> > Bon nuit
> > bueno noche
> > spokoini nochi
> > and lots of good luck. We all need it.
> > mike
> >
> > (the 50's guy)
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