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Amanda Gorman - Biden Inauguration

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Rege · 21/01/2021 13:07

Can we celebrate the amazing talent of national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman yesterday? never heard of her until yesterday, I thought she was awesome and felt so proud. My DC response - 'i'm inspired'!

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PompomDahlia · 21/01/2021 21:52

She was a joy to watch. I'm in awe of her confidence with the whole world watching her, and at such a young age as well. I read that Oprah had gifted her the jewellery she wore on the day, as she did for Maya Angelou when she gave her reading for Clinton - lovely to see the thread continuing

BackforGood · 21/01/2021 22:19

It was wonderfully written and so beautifully delivered.
Such talent and such confidence for one so young.

Does anyone know of we can watch the show Tom Hanks hosted?
I was looking for this yesterday......

Effic · 21/01/2021 22:28

She is amazing ..... her poem “In this place; an America lyric” is absolutely brilliant too in my opinion too.

sarahgellar · 21/01/2021 23:05

She was amazing. An inspiration to so many people young and old. I felt so proud watching her as a young black woman👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

(@MNHQ maybe it's time to fix the emojis so a poster's chosen shade comes up if they prefer instead of the brown/black square after)

Starseeking · 21/01/2021 23:31

I didn't watch any of the inauguration, but had heard so much about her, I specifically looked up her section.

She was amazing. So poised, in control and confident for one so young in front of a world audience. I hope she does go for president in 2036! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Lookingforwardto2021 · 22/01/2021 07:29

@StarAmandaGorman

There you go *@Lookingforwardto2021*

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4142720-To-adore-Amanda-Gorman

I agree, I don't think she should be hidden away in a niche board just because she's black. This is also worth the mainstream boards.

Wonderful thanks 🙏🙏👍🏼👍🏼
C130 · 22/01/2021 09:58

She did so well, I was nodding along to certain parts of her poem. I will listen to it again. Lovely.

Rege · 22/01/2021 10:34

@StarAmandaGorman No one is ‘hiding away in a niche board’, what a ridiculous thing to say. This is a board for Black MNers to talk about things that interest them or mainly concerns them.
Amanda Gorman is a an inspiration to many but particularly to black people because it’s not often we get to have a young black, bright and well educated person take center stage in such a huge event with so many dignitaries and she held her own whilst also watched by the entire world.
While mainstream MN might also be fascinated by her, they clearly weren’t fascinated enough to start a thread about her BEFORE I started this one. Not a single one!
In the past when something really interested the black community and a thread is started about it, it is often derailed for some reason with trifling negative comments to dampen the excitement or it descends into an argument about whether it’s really worth all the attention and the thread eventually dies a premature death.

Case in point, your new thread, 2 posts in someone posted to say she, ‘Went on a bit’, and they were ‘bored’. If you were bored, why on earth would you come on a thread were people are excited about her? It’s spite.

Posts on black MN can be seen by everyone on MN and as you can see, some have already popped in to say they were impressed by her.

There nothing stopping people from starting their own threads about her, I think she is worthy of multiple threads but it is not your place to criticise other posters on which board they use nor your job to police threads. This thread, is in the perfect place within the main board rules. If in your opinion there should be one on the main board, then it is up to you to start one there (as you have now done). Don’t be a hypocrite.

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StarAmandaGorman · 22/01/2021 11:06

@Rege Well I'm not a hypocrite because as you've said, I started one. I posted it here because I saw the quick exchange between you and another poster and I thought...'Look it's done. No need to continue'.

Don't think I policed anybody - I said she is worth ALSO being on the main boards (because she is). Didn't say she shouldn't be here as well. Why would I? So please check the statements first before accusing me of what I didn't say.

I get what you mean about goady posters and negative comments on the main board though. I just ignore them.

I suppose I wrote 'hidden away' because I don't have this board on Active so I forget people also see threads from this board on theirs. If I had seen it on Active, I wouldn't have thought it hidden away. I only come here from time to time, so it seemed 'hidden'.
But now I remember/realise if it was 'hidden', it's entirely my fault so I apologise for saying that.

IheartJKR · 22/01/2021 11:22

Wow. I was gobsmacked tbh. The poise, she was glorious.
Amanda has been discussed on the feminist board by many.

As for black mumsnet being a niche ffs 🤦‍♀️
Really?

StarAmandaGorman · 22/01/2021 11:28

Well it IS a specific space for specific posters to discuss some specific things. It isn't the main boards where anyone can discuss anything, is it?

Perhaps 'niche' may not be the right word for it (?) but it IS a specified 'area', like feminism, etc.

Copernico · 22/01/2021 11:28

How disappointing and completely unsurprising that people would come on this thread to spout negativity about this being posted here.

“Hidden away in a niche board” UGH

StarAmandaGorman · 22/01/2021 11:32

Anyway, I'm not trying to argue on this thread because it takes away from the topic. It isn't my intention to do so, like someone is trying to argue about 'speech impediment' on the other thread as if that's the point of the thread. So no derailing from me here.

Amanda was great and I hope she goes on to do even bigger things. Full stop.

Rege · 22/01/2021 11:44

@StarAmandaGorman Your comment was in support of a previous criticism about the thread location.If you felt the topic was so fascinating, why did you not start your own thread straightaway? It’s none of your business where someone else creates a thread so long as it’s not breaking site rules. There is no cap on number of threads per topic or interest, there are multiple threads about the same topic on the board all the time.

The irony lost on you, is that until you read my exchange with your predecessor it hadn’t occurred to either of you to start a discussion about the young poet. It was only AFTER the fact that you started a separate thread. For that you were being a hypocrite as well as policing. Apology accepted.

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StarAmandaGorman · 22/01/2021 11:48

Dear Lord! If you say so... As I said I don't wish to argue here, so won't.

Thanks for accepting my apology about the words 'hidden away'.

StarAmandaGorman · 22/01/2021 12:28

I feel to add this so you don't keep thinking no one wanted to start a thread. I doubt what I say will matter to anyone or I'll be believed anyway but worth a shot.

Yes, I was going to post about Amanda the day after the inauguration but I had a recurrent health issue in the early morning (around 4am) that meant I had to stay in bed mostly. So no access to my computer. I had my phone but it would have been a faff trying to use it to start a thread which could wait. It's not like it was urgent to start a thread.

Later when I felt a bit better, I first searched to see if anyone posted about her and found it here. I was reading and nodding (and thinking of posting a comment in agreement) when I read the exchange you had with another poster (my 'predecessor', as you've enjoyed saying) which made me think "Yes, that's true. She shouldn't be 'hidden away' (as I thought then. Already clarified) here. She deserves to be on the main board as well".
I decided to go ahead and start the thread.

So yes I agreed with the poster as I didn't think it was a negative comment. May not have been to your liking but it wasn't negative.

No, I wouldn't have started another one after seeing your thread, had it not been for the exchange.

Yes I would have still started one exactly where I did if I hadn't seen yours.

Still, feel free to call me a hypocrite and thread police if it makes you feel better. I just had to clarify this.

Lookingforwardto2021 · 22/01/2021 15:17

Guys, chill. @StarAmandaGorman thanks for starting the new thread and for taking flack on my behalf 😃. I was a bit hmmm that it took a black MN to first post about her in black MN, when I was expecting lots of different threads about this amazing woman. Not as a criticism of the op or this board, of course.

StarAmandaGorman · 22/01/2021 15:46

Not as a criticism of the op or this board, of course.

@Lookingforwardto2021 This is how I read it too, hence didn't see it as negative. Granted, OP had a point with saying "if you thought this why not start one?" Your next comment still seemed positive and like you had taken it in stride.

Then, I thought 'True...etc. Let me start that thread then before this exchange goes further'. (That's what I meant by "no need to continue". I wasn't talking about the thread continuing or not).

Funny I was trying to stop a potential negative exchange and ended up in one. That's the irony.

Happy to take the flack, as your successor and all Grin That'll 'learn me' to mind my own business!

Mookie81 · 03/02/2021 08:08

@Lookingforwardto2021

Agree, she was amazing! Not sure why post in black MN though. She is an amazing young woman and this thread should be in general chat, imo
Yesterday in a thread about the Nationwide crappy poetry adverts in the 'general chat', people were slagging off Amanda's poetry and being quite derogatory. There's a reason this space exists! Hmm
Mookie81 · 03/02/2021 08:13

@Lookingforwardto2021

Guys, chill. *@StarAmandaGorman* thanks for starting the new thread and for taking flack on my behalf 😃. I was a bit hmmm that it took a black MN to first post about her in black MN, when I was expecting lots of different threads about this amazing woman. Not as a criticism of the op or this board, of course.
And you can fuck off with telling us to 'chill' Angry.
Rege · 03/02/2021 20:02

@Mookie81 Grin

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Mookie81 · 03/02/2021 20:07

[quote Rege]@Mookie81 Grin[/quote]
Grin
It annoys me though; who the hell do they think they are?!

LittleRedCourgettes · 05/02/2021 09:15

She was truly phenomenal 🖤

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