Faces In the Inauguration Day Crowd
Ed Fuentes
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Tuesday, January 20, will be noted as a day filled with history and symbolism, but it was also part national rock concert and spiritual revival. Those supporters who made a Downtown Los Angeles pilgrimage held their own at L.A. Live’s Nokia Plaza. The crowd that began gathering as early as 4:30am, was ready to wave its flags and cheer.
As soon as the first images of Barack Obama appeared––a silhouette of a President Elect waiting in the White House hallway––the cheers at L.A. Live began. They stopped only when he placed his hand a bible used by Lincoln to swear-in.
The day brings cultural change, and not just the obvious one.
The first African-American President used twitter and embraced street art to bring forth his message of hope, and the masses followed him up to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and on monitors around the world.
You can say he used popaganda.
The faces at L.A. Live's Nokia Plaza tell the story of the day Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.
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Michelle Dueñas Nakaji on January 23, 2009, at 02:58AM – #1
i was there at 4:50am! :D i am so thankful to councilwoman Jan Perry and everyone that contributed to this inaugural viewing/celebration. i absolutely HAD to share this experience with the community and feared that an opportunity like this wasn't going to present itself. definitely wouldn't have been the same experience had i stayed home and watched it by myself. I love LA and I loved the crowd of people that I shared this with! At the end, I looked up to the bright blue sky and knew, "today is a new day!".