This weekend was a rather historical moment in society as we all may have been aware. I, as a student attending the University of George Washington had the opportunity to fully take advantage of what was going on in the Washington area. Early this morning me and one of my teammates thought that it would be rather memorable if we walked down to the monument and stood side by side with millions of people all supporting Obama.
I knew there was going to be lots of people attending this event but I still didn't imagine a group as large as the one near the monument. Looking around I noticed lots of people selling products. Some examples of things being sold were T-shirts with Obama's face, posters, magazines and coffee mugs. I found it rather significant that out of all the people in attendence there weren't that many altercations between one another. They really did choose a nice day to swear in the president! lolol There were several people who tried to fight through the weather conditions, causing several individuals to seek medical treatment.
Over the past few days I spent time following the inauguration on Fox, looking for some aspects of myth-making displayed. One of the aspects of myth-making that I noticed was innoculation. The parade was supposed to start at 2:15 but didn't really start until 3:45. This may have been because the luncheon took longer than expected. There were only around 350 thousand individuals allowed to attend the parade. The news reporters mentioned that people had to choose between coming to the paradeor attending the swearing in of President Obama. Once the parade started the news reporters kept mentioning how well it turned out despite having to wait a little while extra in bad weather conditions. Another aspect of myth-making that I noticed on Fox was indentification. Fox kept on talking about how now that Obama is the new president, racism is over, that now we are equal when in actuality this is only the foundation to what's needed, that there is so much more work that needs to be done.