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Barack Obama

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9. Mahalo babylonsistah~

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:24 AM

Jun 2015

"It was a demonstration of the power the president had found in the example of the people of Charleston—both the living and the dead. He wasn’t just telling. He was showing—the power he was trying to summon in this speech came from his own feeling of gratitude and obligation to serve as an example of grace."

So powerful!