Former President Obama praises Edith Childs' 24 years of service on the Greenwood County Council and recalls his first encounter with her during his 2008 campaign.
this week, Childs said she was familiar with the"fired up" wording as a way to energize crowds at NAACP voter registration events over the decades.
“Once we sang that song, it reminded us that, no matter what, we have to remain fired up and ready to go and be prepared for whatever confronts you,” she told the AP. Obama invited Childs to the White House several times, one of them for the first holiday celebration his family hosted, in 2009. Years later, Childs wasObama in the video recalled chanting the slogan with larger and larger crowds as his 2008 campaign gained momentum.
"I think more than anything what it represented was a core belief that I had then and continue to have now, that leadership and power and inspiration can come from anywhere," Obama said."It just has to do with spirit, and nobody embodied that better than Edith."
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