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tishaLA

(14,176 posts) Fri Jun 26, 2015, 05:27 PM Jun 2015

Watch Van Jones (and Don Lemon) talk about the President's Eulogy

Van, especially, speaks profoundly about it and even Don gets swept up...it's real people talk:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-don-lemon-almost-struck-speechless-by-obamas-charleston-eulogy/

wish there were a youtube of it, but there isn't.

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Watch Van Jones (and Don Lemon) talk about the President's Eulogy (Original Post) tishaLA Jun 2015 OP

"Once you're fearless and really don't give a damn, no one can stop you" Number23 Jun 2015 #1

And thank you for watching. I was particularly moved tishaLA Jun 2015 #2

Number23

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1. "Once you're fearless and really don't give a damn, no one can stop you"

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Fri Jun 26, 2015, 11:10 PM

Jun 2015

That was awesome. Thanks for posting that.

tishaLA

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2. And thank you for watching. I was particularly moved

Reply to Number23 (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 12:23 AM

Jun 2015

by two separate moments: the first when Van and Don shook hands.

The second, when Van said, "he's free" and Don responded, as if in church, "he's free." And, to me, it wasn't an ordinary freedom they were talking about, but an emancipatory one. It was a follow the north star kind of freedom, a passage....

Perhaps I'm romanticizing it, listening, as I am, to Pres Obama's eulogy again on youtube, but it struck me as a deeply profound, deeply felt sense of communal knowing.

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