Members of the group "The Blind Boys of Alabama", leave the stage after performing for students during the "Music that Inspired the Movement " REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)
Posted on 02/09/2010 6:32:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Crediting civil rights-era protest songs and their spiritual predecessors for his election, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sat in the East Room of his White House and listened to an all-star lineup of performers pay tribute to the music that he said fueled freedom marches and civil disobedience.
The nation's first black president transformed the grand ballroom into a concert hall packed with members of his Cabinet, Congress, civil rights leaders and students for a program that will air on public television later this week for Black History Month...
"The civil rights movement was a movement sustained by music," ..
He said activists from coast to coast were inspired by spirituals, felt their will sharpened by protest songs and base broadened by artists of hope. He said their work paved the way toward a more just America that allowed him to make history in 2008 with his election.
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another i-pod night at the white house and who pays for this?
Members of the group "The Blind Boys of Alabama", leave the stage after performing for students during the "Music that Inspired the Movement " REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)
So what are his musical ideas to sustain the Obamacare movement?
the left tells us that color should not matter and it should not so why does the left always bring color into it
the first black president, no he is also white and arab, try the first non white if they feel color should be mentioned
so much for MLK’s speech where he wanted a color blind nation but then again I guess that is why he was a republican and not a KKK slavery Dem party
A list of artists on this thread:
Hot Night Planned at Snowy White House: Stars to Show Up a Night Early during Snowmageddon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447777/posts
Thanks!
When is white history month?
Should be March through January.
Funny ,Obama can sit and listen to the Civil Rights music,but he sat in a racist Church and couldnt hear the condemnation of whites by his minister.
The hybrid-bigot President.
I'd pick: "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones.
We Shall Overcome - powerful music... kept the movement together during some of the darker times...
” Tuesday night’s concert is just the latest imprint first lady Michelle Obama has left on Washington’s social scene.
There was a conga line to Earth, Wind and Fire’s performance when the Obamas hosted the nation’s governors a year ago.”
Sing along now...
Oh We’re Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain’t Gonna Take It
oh We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore
we’ve Got The Right To Choose And
there Ain’t No Way We’ll Lose It
this Is Our Life, This Is Our Song
we’ll Fight The Powers That Be Just
don’t Pick Our Destiny ‘cause
you Don’t Know Us, You Don’t Belong
oh We’re Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain’t Gonna Take It
oh We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore
(Twisted Sister)
"If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
never make an ugly woman your wife"
Obama is not an “Arab.” That is inbox mythology. The Luo of Kenya did not mix with the Arabs.
Dixie?
I don’t see any Motown names. Now that was great music!
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