Who was the asian guy standing behind Obama at the inauguration?
January 20th, 2009
I noticed an Asian man standing behind Barack Obama and Family a few times on TV. Mostly while President Obama watched the never-ending Inaugural Parade from his viewing booth.
It definitely was not Department of Energy head Steven Chu nor do I think it was VA head Eric Shinseki because this guy looks younger. Anyway, if he’s part of Obama’s administration that’s a good sign: Asians, whether conservative or liberal, are getting a foothold in U.S. Politics
Who is this guy? Is he a politician?
Eric Shinseki head of Dept of VA
Also: I’m not a big poetry fan but did anyone else think that the Poet (Elizabeth Alexander) at the end was weak? Robert Frost or Maya Angelou she is not.
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It’s Konrad Ng, Barack’s brother-in-law, married to sister Maya.
I had the same question… Let me know if you find out!
And yes, the poem reading by Alexander was WEAK!!! Didn’t really end the ceremony on a high note…
That is Obama’s brother in law. His sister Maya’s husband!
The ceremony did end on a high note with Joseph Lowery’s benediction:
“… we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around … when yellow will be mellow … when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.”
I thought he might have been a guy grabbed from the staff to “even out” the colors onstage. I’ve been nabbed several times for the same thing!
Ha ha that is very interesting. I wonder if they tried to “even out” the crowd at the Republican National Convention back in August? Because if they tried, they didn’t do a very good job of it!
Let’s hope we can get more people involved so there isn’t a need to grab Asians off the street to feign diversity anymore.