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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Amanda! - "democracy is an aspiration"

 
We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
And this effort very nearly succeeded.
But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
It can never be permanently defeated.


Americans usually refer to democracy as a thing that we have, or used to have before Donald Trump came along. In Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem, democracy is an aspiration—a thing of the future... NYer 

Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse
The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history read “The Hill We Climb,” which she finished after the riot at the Capitol. “I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen,” she says... nyt 

 





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