Clapping
Barack Obama, at a recent rural elementary school assembly in South
Carolina, asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he
started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the
audience in total silence. Then he said into the microphone, 'Children,
every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun
violence.' Then, little Darrell, with a proud South Carolina drawl, pierced
the quiet and said, "Well, dumb ass, stop clapping!