President Obama was re-inaugurated for his second term today. I didn't hear his entire speech but caught part of it in the car.
From the full text courtesy of CNN:
We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
After the President's re-election in November, there was some grumbling from the right that Obama didn't really have much of a mandate. Apparently, he didn't have enough of the white, male, middle class vote.
Only someone blind to his own privilege could make such a comment.
Last I checked all votes were equal.
Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall: let's stand together.
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