We tagged the wall outside of Gray Building with these words: "President Obama is..." We left chalk at the base of the wall, and before we were even out of eyesight from the wall, people were writing upon it. Unfortunately, it rained the next morning before we could take a picture of all of the things people had written, but we wrote down a few. The responses on the wall went something like this: President Obama is... black, historic, broad shouldered, inspiration, a hypocrite, yo mama, awesome, cool, epic, long awaited, respected, a good speaker, persuasive, a hero, my homeboy, freedom, diversity, not Bush, a liar, a socialist, a democrat, amazing, the love of my life, influential, strong, intelligent, brilliant, awesome, not that great, THAT great, the winner, our leader, and (of course) change. All of these responses were there before the end of the evening (we tagged this wall at around 3:00pm. The next morning as we walked past the wet and streaked wall, there were even more words blurred by the rain, such as unforgettable, the first black president, and the bomb. People saw Obama and ran to voice their opinions, good or bad.
i saw this! and was immediately like "oh, commonweal..". But I think it was a good idea to get the community involved and ask them to voice their opinions. Nowadays, people feel hesitant to do that.
ReplyDeleteI think that most of the responses are a good sign because they seem fairly positive and i think it is important that people are united in support of the new President's decisions.
ReplyDeleteThis lab is pretty much what commonweal is all about, just for the immediacy of response and the intensity of it. Obviously at a dominantly liberal school, most of the responses were pro-Obama, but the level of positive commentary is still a great sign of the changing psyche of our nation. Right on.
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Oh my goodness! You guys are so very creative. I absolutely loved your video of mass transit. I think you guys really understand the idea of social capital and your labs are well planned and executed! Bravo.
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