Students attend presidential inauguration in D.C.

As many students began to settle into their spring semester course load, nearly 250 Prairie View students stood in Washington D.C. to celebrate Barack Obama's shift into his second term as President.
Close to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, students gathered alongside other Americans from across the country to await the swearing in of America's first black president for yet another term.
Sidney LeBeauf, a sophomore civil engineering major said, "We were outside from 5 a.m. until the inauguration ceremony began at 1130 a.m. It was so cold that we had to find things to do to keep warm like walking around, but we lost our spot a few times in the crowd. Some of my friends even fell asleep on the ground waiting for everything to start."
During this once in a lifetime experience, many of the spectators took heed to not only the moment, but the man the nation was called to celebrate.
"You were able to see the real Obama. You could tell that he was opening himself up, he seemed a lot more comfortable to do as he wishes in this term," said Orok Orok, the university's trip organizer.
As Orok foreshadowed, Obama made history outside of his color as he openly supported gay marriage and the right of every American regardless of economic, social, or sexual background.
Beginning his speech with a call to order, a message to nation declaring why so many Americans stood there watching both on the capitol and in their homes.
"We affirm the promise of our democracy.  We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names.  What makes us exceptional - what makes us American - is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago."
Reciting the words, "we hold these truths to be self evident..." that lie in the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, Obama prefaced the remainder of his address.
Declaring a truly universal citizenship, Obama's address followed a message of equality, "For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it," the president continued.
Reaching into the hearts of many Americans, Obama attempted to move and unite a nation to ignore differences and celebrate what brought thousands to capitol hill that cold yet historic morning, a dream of greatness which all Americans can capture not solely the monetary elite.
Although several Republicans have reviewed and ridiculed Obama for his very liberal notions within his address like gay rights, immigration reform, and climate control, average Americans even children have affirmed Obama's message.
Speaking out after hearing Obama express to the nation a need for unity, an 11-year-old transgender girl named Sadie wrote to the Huffington Post to share her dream of America after Obama addressed the nation at the 57th inauguration.
"The world would be better if everyone had the right to be themselves, including people who have creative gender identity and expression," said Sadie.
Sharing an obviously child like charm, Sadie shared the central problem with American politics a lack of diversity and more so an acceptance of differences.
Commemorating Martin Luther King Day, the first Black American president was sworn in on both Dr. King and Abraham Lincoln's bible, symbolically denoting the change Obama represents.
"My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together," said Obama.