Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text)

Post by UncleOxidant » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

dash2 wrote: post #29

Look, no offence, but this is a terrible poem. It's verbose: > We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president, only to find herself reciting for one. It doesn't make sense. (You can't be the successor of a country, you even more can't be the successor of the present instant happening right now.) It's content-free…

Post by carlmr » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

avmich wrote: post #30

jakeva wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's how I understood it

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Post by salut1234 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

twmiller wrote: post #28

war1025 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think a lot of people are more interesting in helping the half of the country that supported Trump and QAnon walk itself back from the crazy positions they've talked themselves into It's not just the right that has walked itself into crazy positions. The country is in need of some serious regression to the mean on both sides.

"Both sides" nonsense. Show me anything from the left that begins to approach believing that there's a secret cabal of baby-eating satan worshippers running a pedophile ring from the basement of a pizza joint.

Post by war1025 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

dash2 wrote: post #29

Look, no offence, but this is a terrible poem. It's verbose: > We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president, only to find herself reciting for one. It doesn't make sense. (You can't be the successor of a country, you even more can't be the successor of the present instant happening right now.) It's content-free…

Post by lovegoblin » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:03 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #3

fullstop wrote: post #2

The text, while worth reading, is "incomplete" without her delivery. If you've not seen her speaking it I highly encourage you to do so -- her delivery was absolutely amazing.

As an aside, she apparently has a speech impediment, so had to rehearse the delivery quite a bit. There was a quote from her about how hard it was to rehearse that much while not sounding robotic.