January 26, 2021 We the successors of a country and a time/Where a skinny Black girl/descended from slaves and raised by a single mother/ can dream of becoming president [of the United States]. Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
On May 31, 1849, Owen Finnegan, Joe Biden s great-great grandfather from Ireland, arrived in New York aboard the ship
Brothers. He was part of an oppressed people who were fleeing their country because of caste oppression and a system of landlordism that made the condition of the Irish peasant comparable to those of an American slave (Noel Ignatiev,
How the Irish Became White). America, Ignatiev explained, scooped up the displaced Irish and made them its unskilled labor force.
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Amanda Gorman recites a poem at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2021, during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. She is a parishioner at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Los Angeles. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
WASHINGTON (CNS) Long before she burst into the public spotlight delivering her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman got a standing ovation from fellow parishioners of St. Brigid Church in Los Angeles for reciting a poem she wrote about the parish.
And on Jan. 20, at the inauguration ceremony of President Joe Biden, parishioners watching this young woman on their TV screens addressing political leaders and the nation at large about courageously rebuilding the country applauded her all the more.
Poet Amanda Gorman is a light to us all, parishioner says Amanda Gorman recites a poem at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2021, during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. She is a parishioner at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Los Angeles. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
Poet Amanda Gorman is a light to us all, parishioner says By
Carol Zimmerman, Catholic News Service January 25, 2021
WASHINGTON Long before she burst into the public spotlight delivering her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman got a standing ovation from fellow parishioners of St. Brigid Church in Los Angeles for reciting a poem she wrote about the parish.