when rocco palma was out there and this includes the oath of office that he was taking to be president. aretha franklin sang my country. and i remember being swept up in that moment. i remember saying we were thinking about everything to arrive at this particular moment. and i looked out on the mall and i looked at the capital. and i thought about what happened in 1963 which is one martin luther king gave his i have a dream speech and that includes the song my country. they were saying that someone like barack obama could be elected president. then i remember standing there in a cold moment thinking about a song that i had heard many years before and there is an alternative version two "my country tis of thee", the stronghold of slavery, they wrote a song criticizing the slave system. and it has attention. and there is a benefit to own their group and we do not dare let the people who operate on the basis of fear or scarcity and me and mine and us, we dare not do that and we have to always be pulling "my country tis of thee" in the direction with the sweet land of liberty. and this inc