"This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."
As much as I enjoyed that I must admit I was pretty taken by that poem too. Although, I didn't get to hear the whole thing because I had to leave the room when she hit the "a teacher says get a pencil" part... I was laughing so hard that I started choking on my coffee. I think my co-workers were really impressed that I held it in that long.
Top 5 funny moments
#5 Random cuts to Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw.
#4 "Yellow can be mellow".
#3 The way that Reverend said "Sa-sha and Ma-lia".
#2 Barack forgetting the line to repeat when being sworned into office.
It's a musical about apartheid in South Africa. I remember the day I saw it at the theater, I was 10 years old. It was the first and last time I saw it. But that's okay because it's burned pretty vividly into my brain.
Then (as if the fact that my sister and I sobbing hysterically weren't enough) we got to go see the massive AIDS quilt at York College right after.
It was a day for learning about bad things. The kinds of bad things that you can't just read about.
It turned out to be a pretty traumatic day. As a matter of fact I think that this day rates as #3 in my list of most horrible days.
#1 on my list of most horrible days as a 10 year old.
I'm not sure why I am bring this up. I have been thinking about Africa a lot lately. I hope to go in the fall.
This is when Sarafina is arrested. You don't have to watch the whole thing. It's just the only clip I could find of this part.
