But I just started crying the moment Joseph Lowery started on his benediction. I was in chat with a bunch of Americans who all instantly recognised the quote "God of our weary years", but watching a very elderly black man get up and say it *so* heartfeltly set me off. I cried even more when I discovered what it was.
And then I started smiling and laughing as he went on. And *then* I found out who he was.
MLK couldn't be there, so he came instead. And he was amazing.
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Date: 2009-01-20 10:56 pm (UTC)But I just started crying the moment Joseph Lowery started on his benediction. I was in chat with a bunch of Americans who all instantly recognised the quote "God of our weary years", but watching a very elderly black man get up and say it *so* heartfeltly set me off. I cried even more when I discovered what it was.
And then I started smiling and laughing as he went on. And *then* I found out who he was.
MLK couldn't be there, so he came instead. And he was amazing.