Barack Obama: “Katrina may have swept through the city, but it did not destroy this community, and that is because of you, the people…”

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

I was a little tall for it.

The success of this experiment was never a given.