THE INAUGURATION!!!

Today Barack Obama era as the 44th President began at 12:00pm. Although he didn't his oath until a couple minutes after 12pm, the Amendment states that the new president assumes the role as president at 12 noon. Everyone looked so happy hopeful. I watched it on CNN and they were on top of their stuff. They gave fun facts and keep the viewers updated through out the show.
The First Lady and Jill Biden were dressed very well. Some say that Mrs. Obama was over dressed and stuff, but I think she looked great. She's the First Lady, she had to make sure no one out shined her.
When the camera kept cutting to Bush's face he look like a huge weight was being lifted off of his shoulders. He look like he was very relived to be passing the torch.

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During the reading of the oath there was a little mix up between Obama and the Chief Justice, but they worked it out. Obama look as if he wanted to start laughing though. When Obama gave his speech he just reassured me that my vote was the right vote. He told America that it would not be easy and it would be hard work to get everything good again , but he said that we can do it. He didn't stand up there and lie to us he was straight forward and that's what I like about Obama. During his speech he was taking jabs at Bush and they way he ran America over the last 8 years. That was funny to me.

All in all a good watch, but not everything was good lol. The lady that read that poem could of been dropped from the itinerary and Aretha Franklin ( I like her) but she tried to put to much soul on My Country Tis of Thee lol and you could not understand what she was saying half the time. Beyonce did a great job singing At Last for the Obama's First dance.

The Price of Freedom

In 1993 WTVD News did a special on MLK Jr. They talked about the struggles that blacks still faced in education and other things. They talked about how unemployment rates became higher from the 60's to the 90's and they talked about how the people at the round table reached their positions that they held at the time. We didn't get to finish the video, but from what I saw a lot of what they were talking about is still relavent today. Maybe not to the extent that it was back then, but there is still people struggling to find jobs and people still struggling with racism.

Bryson Pitts

During the TABS Banquet a man by the name of Bryson Pitts gave a very interesting speech. He talked about Barack Obama and what would happen if Barack won the Presidentcy. He touch on some vailed points about why people where voting for Obama and how it should not have taken a black man to run for president to get black people believing in themselves. I have met a lot of people that said they only voted for Obama because he's black and to me that's ok. They voted for him for their reasons, but I know I voted for him because I believed in what he was talking about and everytime he gave a speech it just grabbed me and made me believe.
Pitts talked about how blacks should not look at Obama and expect things to start being handed to them, instead they should continue to work hard and prove themselves.
Yes Barack is an inspration and a public figure or role model for young black to look up too but they should also realize that they have to continue to work hard and that's what Pitts was trying to say in his speech.

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WHY I'M I HERE

The reason I decided to take Mass Media was because it was required in order to graduate. I also wanted to network and learn more about the course and what it has to teach me.