# Who knows what this is?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 20, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648 "2009-01-20T17:28:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@aberfitch82](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/aberfitch82)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/21 "2009-01-20T21:14:40Z")
hellen keller? :lol:
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/22 "2009-01-21T12:14:30Z")
So anyways…
George Watt painted this in 1885.
Back in the 1980’s Reverend Frederick G. Sampson gave a sermon on this painting and how the hope portrayed by it is relevant to modern life. In his audience was Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
In 1990 Reverend Jeremiah Wright gave a sermon on this painting, excerpts from which I posted above.
It left an impression on a young black man in his audience, who years later would use Wright’s sermon on the audacity to hope as the central theme of a book he was writing, and the central theme of his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and then later as the central theme of his candidacy for the President of the United States.
Neat huh? I just thought you might be interested in actually seeing the most prominent symbol in our society today that nobody knows about.
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### Author:  [@King](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/King)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/23 "2009-01-21T12:19:37Z")
great. wow youre soo wise.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/24 "2009-01-21T12:26:48Z")
[sarcasm]I’m so glad you’re impressed.[/sarcasm]
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### Author:  [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/25 "2009-01-21T12:43:57Z")
And you came across this how?
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/26 "2009-01-21T19:05:38Z")
I listen to books on tape while I’m at the gym. Exercise my mind while exercising my body. I figured I’d try to bring a little culture to nyspeed.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/27 "2009-01-21T19:06:33Z")
In this case I was listening to Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” while riding an incumbant bike. The story piqued my interest, so I googled the painting.
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### Author:  [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/28 "2009-01-21T19:07:25Z")
:tup: I learned something today.
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