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Barack Obama
Related: About this forumThey Can't Take Away my Dignity
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Photo of the Day: Immigration is about families
In a protest, Renata Teodoro, right, and her mother, Gorete Borges Teodoro, who was deported in 2007, met at a Mexican border fence.
The young adults are part of the movement of immigrants who grew up in this country without legal status who call themselves Dreamers. Their parents traveled to the Mexican side of the fence from Brazil, Colombia and Guadalajara, Mexico, seeing their children in person for the first time in many years.
The meeting, under a searing borderlands sun, was a new piece of the highly personal political theater that young immigrants have used to dramatize their support for a bill in the Senate to overhaul the immigration system. Hours before the encounter here, President Obama spoke at the White House to urge Congress to move quickly to pass the bill. Suggesting the growing influence of the youth movement in the debate, the president framed his remarks both literally and politically with Dreamers.
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This is not an abstract debate, Mr. Obama said. This is about incredible young people who understand themselves to be Americans, who have done everything right but have still been hampered in achieving their American dream.
The meeting, under a searing borderlands sun, was a new piece of the highly personal political theater that young immigrants have used to dramatize their support for a bill in the Senate to overhaul the immigration system. Hours before the encounter here, President Obama spoke at the White House to urge Congress to move quickly to pass the bill. Suggesting the growing influence of the youth movement in the debate, the president framed his remarks both literally and politically with Dreamers.
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This is not an abstract debate, Mr. Obama said. This is about incredible young people who understand themselves to be Americans, who have done everything right but have still been hampered in achieving their American dream.
What's the agenda?
Boy, there sure is a lot of political noise out there these days! But beyond all that President Obama has an agenda he's working on. Anyone paying attention?
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http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/07/whats-agenda.html
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They Can't Take Away my Dignity (Original Post)
sheshe2
Jul 2013
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ucrdem
(15,703 posts)1. Great post.
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)2. Our Dignity,
Our dreams, our beliefs, that can never be taken away from us.
Not now, not ever.
Thank you ucrdem~
Cha
(305,137 posts)3. I'm paying attention, she.. thanks to you
and TOD!
mahalo BOG she~
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)6. You were always paying attention Cha...
I am crying right now. However, that's not a bad thing.
When you stop crying, you stop feeling. When you stop feeling, you die inside.
BOG To us all, to our dignity, our pride. We can and will make a difference.
Cha
(305,137 posts)7. We have been and will continue
to make a difference, she~ Guaranteed~
BOG
Cha
(305,137 posts)4. P.S. and other DUers and BOGgers..
can't forget them.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)5. Fortunately the President doesn't get diverted by shiney objects and keeps his eyes on the prize.
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)8. He does grant, he keeps his eyes on the prize, that is our future~
He has dignity and pride, as do we.
We will not go silently into the night. We will lead the way.
she~
freshwest
(53,661 posts)9. They cannot take our pride.
U2 Live from Lincoln Memorial Obama Inaugural Celebration (Pride & City of Blinding Lights)
Uploaded on Jan 20, 2009
"Let Freedom Ring..."
"On this spot where we're standing, 46 years ago, Dr King had a dream. On Tuesday, that dream comes to pass." U2 performed 'Pride' and 'City of Blinding LIghts' to an audience of 400,000 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on January 18th, 2009.
Samuel L Jackson recalled Martin Luther King and how "a band from Ireland was moved by Dr King's message and his sacrifice and wrote a song to remember and honour him..."
"Let freedom ring," announced Bono as U2 arrived on stage and struck up the opening bars of Pride (In The Name of Love). This is not just an American dream,' he said. "Also an Irish dream, an European dream, an African dream an Israeli dream ... and also a Palestinian dream."
'Let freedom ring, let freedom ring....' he continued, as Edge played the opening chords to City of Blinding Lights. "What a thrill for four Irish boys from the north side of Dublin to honour you sir, the next president of the United States, Barack Obama...'
Pride (In The Name Of Love) ~ U2
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One come he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
(nobody like you...)
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love...
City of Blinding Lights ~ U2
The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now
Neon heart dayglo eyes
A city lit by fireflies
They're advertising in the skies
For people like us
And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground....
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Don't look before you laugh
Look ugly in a photograph
Flash bulbs purple irises
The camera can't see
I've seen you walk unafraid
I've seen you in the clothes you made
Can you see the beauty inside of me?
What happened to the beauty I had inside of me?
And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Time... time
Won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
The more you know the less you feel
Some pray for others steal
Blessings are not just for the ones who kneel... luckily
We will have our dream of human equality. Those who do not respect our ideals and the promise of the ages, can wail and gnash their teeth. We will go forward in celebration and joy into the future that we will make together.
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)10. This is the first thing
that I watched when I came home.
Simply beautiful. Thank you for the reminder of that day.
"Forward in celebration and joy" Yes.
freshwest
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)11. You know I loved it!
And also your closing paragraph.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)12. I forgot to mention what an awesome post this is!