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Obama: āWeāre the Slaves Who Built the White Houseā
"Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. Thatās our spirit. Thatās who we are.
"We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And weāre Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character.
"Weāre the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free ā- Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the Lost Boys of Sudan. Weāre the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. Thatās how we came to be. (Applause.)
"Weāre the slaves who built the White House and the economy of the South. (Applause.) Weāre the ranch hands and cowboys who opened up the West, and countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workersā rights.
"Weāre the fresh-faced GIs who fought to liberate a continent. And weāre the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the Navajo code-talkers, and the Japanese Americans who fought for this country even as their own liberty had been denied.
"Weāre the firefighters who rushed into those buildings on 9/11, the volunteers who signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. Weāre the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge. (Applause.)
"We are storytellers, writers, poets, artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy, and give voice to the voiceless, and tell truths that need to be told.
"Weāre the inventors of gospel and jazz and blues, bluegrass and country, and hip-hop and rock and roll, and our very own sound with all the sweet sorrow and reckless joy of freedom.
"We are Jackie Robinson, enduring scorn and spiked cleats and pitches coming straight to his head, and stealing home in the World Series anyway. (Applause.)
"We are the people Langston Hughes wrote of who ābuild our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how.ā We are the people Emerson wrote of, āwho for truth and honorās sake stand fast and suffer long;ā who are ānever tired, so long as we can see far enough.ā
"Thatās what America is. Not stock photos or airbrushed history, or feeble attempts to define some of us as more American than others. (Applause.) We respect the past, but we donāt pine for the past. We donāt fear the future; we grab for it. America is not some fragile thing. We are large, in the words of Whitman, containing multitudes. We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit. Thatās why someone like John Lewis at the ripe old age of 25 could lead a mighty march."
Obama We re the Slaves Who Built the White House The Weekly Standard
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They will not stop. The democrats just will not stop using the grievance industry to gain power and advance their agenda. They just will not stop.
I wonder who Booker T's quote applies to today.......
"Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. Thatās our spirit. Thatās who we are.
"We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And weāre Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character.
"Weāre the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free ā- Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the Lost Boys of Sudan. Weāre the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. Thatās how we came to be. (Applause.)
"Weāre the slaves who built the White House and the economy of the South. (Applause.) Weāre the ranch hands and cowboys who opened up the West, and countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workersā rights.
"Weāre the fresh-faced GIs who fought to liberate a continent. And weāre the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the Navajo code-talkers, and the Japanese Americans who fought for this country even as their own liberty had been denied.
"Weāre the firefighters who rushed into those buildings on 9/11, the volunteers who signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. Weāre the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge. (Applause.)
"We are storytellers, writers, poets, artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy, and give voice to the voiceless, and tell truths that need to be told.
"Weāre the inventors of gospel and jazz and blues, bluegrass and country, and hip-hop and rock and roll, and our very own sound with all the sweet sorrow and reckless joy of freedom.
"We are Jackie Robinson, enduring scorn and spiked cleats and pitches coming straight to his head, and stealing home in the World Series anyway. (Applause.)
"We are the people Langston Hughes wrote of who ābuild our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how.ā We are the people Emerson wrote of, āwho for truth and honorās sake stand fast and suffer long;ā who are ānever tired, so long as we can see far enough.ā
"Thatās what America is. Not stock photos or airbrushed history, or feeble attempts to define some of us as more American than others. (Applause.) We respect the past, but we donāt pine for the past. We donāt fear the future; we grab for it. America is not some fragile thing. We are large, in the words of Whitman, containing multitudes. We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit. Thatās why someone like John Lewis at the ripe old age of 25 could lead a mighty march."
Obama We re the Slaves Who Built the White House The Weekly Standard
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They will not stop. The democrats just will not stop using the grievance industry to gain power and advance their agenda. They just will not stop.
I wonder who Booker T's quote applies to today.......