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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Obama Presidential Center Museum

Obama Presidential Center Museum

Trying to read the text at the top of this edifice and I'm not having much luck. Found another image on Obama's website that shows the text is on two adjacent sides and wraps around the corner. They also give the text, but I wanted to see if it matched what's in the photograph. It took some doing, but I was able to piece it together. 

YOU ARE AMERICAUNCONSTRAIN
ED BY HABIT ANDCONVENTION
UNENCUMBEREDBY WHAT IS REA
DY TO SEIZE WHAT OUGHT
TO BE FOR EVERYWHERE IN THIS
COUNTRY THEREARE FIRST STEPS
TO BE TAKEN THERE IS NEW GROU
ND TO COVER THERE ARE MORE
BRIDGES TO BE CROSSED AMERICA
IS NOT THE PROJECT OF ANY ONE
PERSON THE SINGLE MOST POWER
FUL WORD IN OUR DEMOCRACY
IS THE WORD WEWE THE PEOPLE
WE SHALL OVERCOME YES WE CAN
THAT WORD IS OWNED BY NO ONE
IT BELONGS TOEVERYONE OH
WHAT A GLORIOUSTASK WE ARE GI
VEN TO CONTINUALLY TRY TO IM
PROVE THIS GREATNATION OF OURS

It doesn't help that there are no spaces, no punctuation, words are broken in arbitrary places and some letters are cut in half to wrap around the corner.

4 comments:

  1. Reminds me of early writing which also had no spaces or punctuation. History repeated ?

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  2. That statement was the foreword by Kamala after a bottle of whine.

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  3. Designed by a DEI hire, I'll bet.

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