AMANDA GORMAN STOLE THE SHOW???

Yes, OP, I'm sure that's it. You hate.... poetry.

Yeah, I found it boring. Everyone is raving about her and I think we all know why...

I agree. Inspiring poetry and great spoken word performance. Imagine having to perform your poetry in front of those people and this event? She is brilliant.

Fuck of you racist cunt. That was a great reading and spot on.

I liked her performance, and I liked her even more after seeing her interview with Anderson Cooper. Very mature and gracious -- especially considering her age. With time and a little more worldliness, her work will become even more polished and sophisticated.

Where do you get 12 years old? She's 23, Harvard grad.

Her "poetry" is amateurish, immature drivel which included two references to lyrics from Hamilton. She is overpraised and relishing it and will have a hard time later in life.

Sometimes when the wrappings fall There's nothing underneath at all

OP is worse than Hitler and Donald Trump.

I was more moved when Darlene read her poem to her class and made Roseann cry.

[quote] Her "poetry" is amateurish, immature drivel which included two references to lyrics from Hamilton.

Were you expecting Kublai Khan from a 22-year-old, Michiko Kakutani? I smell bitter grapes.

R4 = has never read any Langston Hughes, but thinks you're a Klansman if you don't genuflect before banal, artless pab for fraus to put on their Facebook pages.

OP, what did you at the Inauguration? Oh, that's right: NOTHING.

But tell us about these individuals: Biden, Harris, Gorman, Ossoff and Warnock.

I wasn’t impressed. I found both the poem and the reading a little florid and maybe even a little judgements. Very entitled black privilege. Exactly the kind of thing that will lose the Dems the senate in two years and the whitehouse in 4.

[quote] I found both the poem and the reading a little florid and maybe even a little judgements.

Maybe Miss Gorman can teach you proper English.

She was gorgeous and inspiring and talented. She set the perfect tone.

OP is fat.

OP here. I AM Black. Sorry - the over hype of this girl makes me cringe.

Apparently OP’s blackness immunizes her from ALL criticism. OP has spoken!

End of all threads, EVER.

[quote] Were you expecting Kublai Khan from a 22-year-old, Michiko Kakutani?

Rimbaud had retired by that age.

[quote] Rimbaud had retired by that age.

Yeah, well, he also died at age 37, so there's that.

When they announced her name I was expecting Amanda Borden.

I liked it - not groundbreaking poetry but so nice to see someone under 75 on the stage. She had energy and freshness that no one else had. Especially the sad spectacle of Amy Klobuchar acting like an emcee of a comedy show.

I found it long and tedious but I'm not into poetry so there's that.

I thought it was fine, with moments of amazing. But poetry doesn’t usually have staying power.

R17 No, it just immunizes him from having "RACIST!" shrieked at him by shitstains like R1 and R4.

R16, being black does not give you a pass. We all know that some black people are self-hating coons who would support a Klansman before they would a black person.

Hm, I wonder what's more racist, r25 - disliking a poem, or calling people "coons". Tough call.

Ms Gorman was the most interesting person of the program. JLo baby voicing through a kindergarten version of This Land Is Your Land was putrid, turned her off, Gaga blah blah, Garth Brooks meh, longwinded "invocation" guy also was muted (and seemed to go on much longer than AG).

AG represented youth. When have young people been given a voice at an inauguration? Young people are discussed and made use of but rarely allowed to speak for themselves on such a stage.

Tough shit if you don't like it.

23 yo WOMAN and Harvard Graduate. Why does everyone speak of this person like she is some widdle cleber so cutie black gurll.

Because Dems go to far the other way and treat black people with kid gloves, they talk about the "black vote". Equality means they be treated the same everyone else, the girl was above average and if she were white it would've been a forgotten moment.

They talk about the “black vote” because politicians of another color suppress it.

I liked it about as much as I can enjoy such things....a little.

R26, if you want to call me racist for calling Clarence Thomas and other black folk of his ilk coons, I own it!

[quote] OP, what did you at the Inauguration? Oh, that's right: NOTHING.

Well, what did you do at Trump's inauguration? Oh that's right: NOTHING. But I'm sure you felt free to criticize it (as we all did) just the same.

Yours is a [bold]STUPID[/bold] argument.

[quote]OP here. I AM Black.

Whatever you say, dear.

She added Diversity, Inclusivity, and Empowerment to the proceedings!

Republican White salty tears. Mmmmmmmm!!!!!!!.

[quote] kid gloves

OMG, I literally thought it was "kit gloves." I can think of at least two client meetings where I said kit gloves. Thank God I've never typed it until now.

The young woman is a star. Deal with it hags.

You’re probably a closet racist like my mom. But yeh, I’m sure it’s just because you “hate poetry.”

R29 Oh, dear - you should refrain from commenting until you learn to spell.

I was NOT into the poem but then I watched her interview with Anderson Cooper and became a fan. She came off as extremely bright, likable and sweet.

I can’t get into poetry. I find it so obnoxious. But she’s a star.

Time to rep that first world status. I hate poetry too. But we need to represent culture, education and some fucking class after 4 years in the gutter. THE US is being looked down on and pitied by our allies and mocked by our enemies.

What r42 said.

I really can't stand poetry but I recognize that it is art, and we needed that up there, especially from a young voice.

I loved it too BUT this trend { the last 10 years especially } of poets and their delivery inflections makes me crazy! It's poetry delivery abuse.

The occasion of having a poet speak at an inauguration is an acknowledgment of culture, and for that I was very happy she was included. The poem itself was nothing special and the gesticulating odd. But brava for trying it out. Let’s just hope it doesn’t become a fad.

Was it just me or did anyone else think she dressed like she was in The Lego Movie?

Nothing new or special, but people were/are craving the antithesis of a Republican.

Her poem was bad. If even one of the commentators had said, "Meh." while the others were busy falling all over themselves to praise her and her poem they would have been immediately tagged as a racist just like so many of you did to the OP. Did any of you go read the poem? It's crap.

Woof woof!

Here, you can read all of the inaugural poems ever written. Judge for yourselves.

If you are able to notice the rhyme schemes and clever illiteration, it was very good. I enjoyed it. Not everyone can appreciate poetry, just like some cannot appreciated a good wine.

She is very beautiful, too.

[quote] clever illiteration

Lmao - ok, professor.