Devant plusieurs millions de personnes rassemblées au Public Mall de Washington Barack Obama a encore une fois prononcé, au pied des marches du Lincoln memorial, un discours prônant le rassemblement dans la différence, l’unité de toutes les voix. L’invocation prononcée lors de cet évènement était délivrée par le premier pasteur gay de l’église épiscopal, Gene Robinson. Qui a également été invité à assister demain, avec son compagnon, à l’inauguration ou l’invocation sera prononcée par Rick Warren, un pasteur ayant tenu des propos homophobes. On peut donc penser, et, pour ma part, souhaiter que la route choisie par l’équipe Obama est bien celle de l’expression de toute les différences, vers l’unité.
Mais je préfère laisser la parole au futur président :
“ And yet, as I stand here tonight, what gives me the greatest hope of all is not the stone and marble that surrounds us today, but what fills the spaces in between. It is you - Americans of every race and region and station who came here because you believe in what this country can be and because you want to help us get there.

It is the same thing that gave me hope from the day we began this campaign for the presidency nearly two years ago; a belief that if we could just recognize ourselves in one another and bring everyone together - Democrats, Republicans, and Independents; Latino, Asian, and Native American; black and white, gay and straight, disabled and not - then not only would we restore hope and opportunity in places that yearned for both, but maybe, just maybe, we might perfect our union in the process.”
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“ It is how this nation has overcome the greatest differences and the longest odds - because there is no obstacle that can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change.
That is the belief with which we began this campaign, and that is how we will overcome what ails us now. There is no doubt that our road will be long. That our climb will be steep. But never forget that the true character of our nation is revealed not during times of comfort and ease, but by the right we do when the moment is hard. I ask you to help me reveal that character once more, and together, we can carry forward as one nation, and one people, the legacy of our forefathers that we celebrate today.”
Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6SoCil3bgo
Discours intégral : http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGxHTc

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