106岁舞者与总统快乐共舞
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AS IT IS 2016-02-23 106-Year-Old Dances for Joy Over 'Black' President 106岁舞者与总统快乐共舞
This is What’s Trending Today.
By the time you get to be 106, you have seen and done a lot.
And Virginia McLaurin is almost 107.
But last week, McLaurin did something for the first time.
She went to the White House. There, she met President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
She said it was something she never thought she would be able to do.
“I thought I would never get in the White House,” McLaurin said, in a video posted on the White House’s Facebook page over the weekend.
McLaurin is an African-American resident1 of Washington, D.C. She was born in 1909 in South Carolina.
A video of her celebrating Black History Month with the Obamas last week got people giddy on social media. Black History Month is celebrated2 every February, and it recognizes the contributions African-Americans make to the world.
More than 25 million people have seen the video since it was released3 Sunday night. The video was shared nearly 500,000 times on Facebook. McLaurin and the Obamas are two of Monday’s top trending subjects on Twitter.
The video shows McLaurin coming to meet President Obama and Michelle Obama. While posing4 for a picture after they are introduced, McLaurin says: “I am so happy. A black president, yay! A black wife! And I’m here to celebrate black history.”
People wrote messages of support, calling the video “fantastically uplifting,” and saying watching the video “will make your day.”
One man from Brazil wrote: “She lived to see two World Wars, the height of racial segregation5, and finally, an elected black president.”
The Washington Post reports that McLaurin submitted6 a petition7 to the White House in 2014, asking to meet with Obama. She wrote about all the things she remembered from her life – like living without electricity and first Ford8 car she saw coming off the assembly9 line.
“I didn’t think I would live to see a Colored President,” she wrote. “I know you are a busy man, but I wish I could meet you.”
And when McLaurin finally met the Obamas, she danced with joy.
“So what’s the secret to still dancing at 106?” President Obama asked.
McLaurin did not answer. She was so excited, she just kept on dancing.
Words in This Story
giddy – adj. excited, playful and silly
fantastic – adj. extremely good
petition – n. a written document that people sign to show that they want a person or organization to do or change something
segregation – n. the practice or policy of keeping people of different races, religions, etc., separate from each other
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