People could learn something from that.” Arms still crossed, he lifted his left forearm to emphasize a point. Grace and forgiveness are tenets of the AME Church. “I’ve got some experience in the AME Church. “Their actions shouldn’t be a surprise,” he said. The president’s shoulders relaxed a bit and he walked around to the front of his desk, sat against it, and crossed his arms. For the families to forgive that trespass, rather than demand Old Testament justice, was a commitment to faith that I doubted I would be able to summon in my own life. The people they loved most had welcomed a stranger into their prayer circle, and it had brought them nothing but horror and death. Obama had seen the powerful video of the Charleston families forgiving their loved ones’ killer, Dylann Roof. “So, look,” he said, “I’ve come around to the idea that I have to go to Reverend Pinckney’s service in Charleston to pay my respects. But one day after the summer solstice, the sun was bathing from on high the collection of maples, elms, oaks, and magnolia trees that ringed and shaded the lush South Lawn. Were it winter, the sun would be streaming in at a low angle from behind him. The president was standing behind his desk in shirtsleeves, organizing some papers.
Press Secretary Josh Earnest remained on his feet behind them. Communications director Jen Psaki and Jarret took the couch opposite me, Psaki closest to the fireplace, Jarret closest to the Resolute Desk and Obama. I led the way and plopped onto the couch opposite the Rose Garden, the fireplace to my left, the Resolute Desk to my right. “Come on in, people,” Obama’s baritone rang from the Oval Office an hour later. “And before my team starts working on a eulogy that may or may not happen, I need to talk with him.” I couldn’t tell if this meant that it had been decided that Obama would be giving the eulogy and nobody had told me, or if Valerie had decided it without telling anybody. “I read an interesting piece this weekend on the meaning of the Black church, if POTUS is looking for a different message for the funeral. Three days later, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett grabbed my arm as I was walking into Monday morning’s senior advisors meeting in the chief of staff’s office. The thought of stressing over another eulogy-especially one as fraught as this could be–had been scaring the shit out of me.
Over the weekend, I received word that Obama didn’t want to go. I didn’t know what the right words were yet. And this one-this one would be a highwire act that would have to be more than a eulogy, but a balm, a sermon, a way forward. This one is way too fucked.”Įven two and a half years into my job as Obama’s chief speechwriter, I agonized over every speech I drafted for him. It’s not on him alone to fix this every time,” Peri said.
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It is sad that sometimes people take advantage of free downloads or just pull images from the internet for their own evil personal uses.One of the speechwriters on my team, Sarada Peri, shared my feelings. As designers and artists we create our content to make people happy, I personally create my freebies to share my love for design with the world so that I can brighten someones day and hopefully create a positive impact on someones life. That profile is still up there with countless stolen art pieces, its really a shame to think of all the artists that have no idea their art is being sold for profit for someone else.
Long story short, they removed my artwork from the page after I proved that the originals were mine and that was the end of it.
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