The President spoke reverently and brilliantly at Rev. Clementa Pinckney's funeral today at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina .
Watching those AME Bishops in their purple regalia, hearing their piquant praise, while imbibing the beauty, power, pathos, solemnity of all the celebratory proceedings for the dead made me swell with pride at my church on display .
I am proud to be AME!
The President did not miss a beat! He stepped right up, and stepped right in, with all of that gravitas, veritas and auctoritas, appropriate to the occasion and to his office and "knocked the ball" deep into the depths of Charleston's storied harbor, with his rendition of "Amazing Grace."
This congregational hymn he led as part of his powerful peroration, wherein he called aloud each decedent's name in seriatim. His insouciance, humility, tact, taste, soul, command and love: of God; of country; of African American history and worship, translucently shone through, being spiritually felt, reciprocated, appreciated!
It was both healing catharsis and panegyrics at their very best ever!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/18/full-text-obamas-remarks-on-fatal-shooting-in-charleston-s-c/
Friday, June 26, 2015
"REVEREND PRESIDENT ROCKED!
"REV. PRESIDENT" ROCKED!
The President spoke reverently and brilliantly at Rev. Clementa Pinckney's funeral today at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina .
Watching those AME Bishops in their purple regalia, hearing their piquant praise, while imbibing the beauty, power, pathos, solemnity of all the celebratory proceedings for the dead made me swell with pride at my church on display .
I am proud to be AME!
The President did not miss a beat! He stepped right up, and stepped right in, with all of that gravitas, veritas and auctoritas, appropriate to the occasion and to his office and "knocked the ball" deep into the depths of Charleston's storied harbor, with his rendition of "Amazing Grace."
This congregational hymn he led as part of his powerful peroration, wherein he called aloud each decedent's name in seriatim. His insouciance, humility, tact, taste, soul, command and love: of God; of country; of African American history and worship, translucently shone through, being spiritually felt, reciprocated, appreciated!
It was both healing catharsis and panegyrics at their very best ever!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/18/full-text-obamas-remarks-on-fatal-shooting-in-charleston-s-c/
The President spoke reverently and brilliantly at Rev. Clementa Pinckney's funeral today at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina .
Watching those AME Bishops in their purple regalia, hearing their piquant praise, while imbibing the beauty, power, pathos, solemnity of all the celebratory proceedings for the dead made me swell with pride at my church on display .
I am proud to be AME!
The President did not miss a beat! He stepped right up, and stepped right in, with all of that gravitas, veritas and auctoritas, appropriate to the occasion and to his office and "knocked the ball" deep into the depths of Charleston's storied harbor, with his rendition of "Amazing Grace."
This congregational hymn he led as part of his powerful peroration, wherein he called aloud each decedent's name in seriatim. His insouciance, humility, tact, taste, soul, command and love: of God; of country; of African American history and worship, translucently shone through, being spiritually felt, reciprocated, appreciated!
It was both healing catharsis and panegyrics at their very best ever!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/18/full-text-obamas-remarks-on-fatal-shooting-in-charleston-s-c/