Darian Dauchan performs his Spoken Word Poem "Damn You Barack Obama, You Pretty Motha fu-ker" during the Urbana Team Slam Finals at the Bowery Poetry Club. May 2007
Here's to the power of rhetoric. Compare the use of repetition here by Dauchan with that of Rev. Wright's which has been in circulation of late. While their objects of "damnation" differ, each rhetor evokes possibility through the utterance. In each instance, the expression is used out of an evocation of love and toward an issuance of expectant hope and accountability on the part of the interlocutor. That's bad.
