An epic American black community gathering; it's the "new tradition" (an epic read)

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from Suzie Bright's Journal: http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2013/01/1-i-have-only-seen-the-inauguration-on-tv-before-i-am-here-to-tell-you-it-is-nothing-like-what-you-see-on-the-tube-the-c.html


1) . . . I am here to tell you: the live event, the whole weekend, is NOTHING like what you see on the tube . . . The cultural experience has far superceded the political one. It's more like Woodstock— or Wattstax— than a snoozy Episcopalian church service, which was my former impression . . .

2) . . . The whole city is having a ball. I just had a ball in the elevator. Every bar is a riot of bonhomie. Dancing in the streets, singing, WHATEVER feels good. No one is a stranger in DC this weekend. I could care less how close I get to the ceremony or dignitaries. Vox Populi . . .!

3) . . . I can't imagine how GRIM a Romney Inauguration would've been . . . Stoked by all their paranoia, resentment, and deep sexual pathology, how could one even breathe? How would DC's waiters and bartenders and park rangers have managed not to throw up . . . ?

4) . . . This is an epic American black community gathering; it's the "new tradition." Everyone who could get a plane, train, or pony fare is here. People in wheelchairs, people with all their kids, 90-year-old grandma's who went mano a mano with the Klan in Atlanta and Birmingham in the Sixties, EVERYONE.


read more: http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2013/01/1-i-have-only-seen-the-inauguration-on-tv-before-i-am-here-to-tell-you-it-is-nothing-like-what-you-see-on-the-tube-the-c.html