Today is the day we celebrate the birth of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. How fitting that today is also the day Barack H. Obama recites the oath of office and begins his 2nd term as the first African-American President of the United States and leader of the free world. It is also fitting that the Obama family will once again sleep tonight in the White House, a residence that black slaves built.
On August 28, 1963, Dr. King exclaimed “I HAVE A DREAM” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama once again becomes that dream fulfilled on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Martin paved the road for Barack. Today, Barack stands on the shoulders of Martin.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. KING!
"Today is the day we celebrate the birth of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. How fitting that today is also the day Barack H. Obama recites the oath of office and begins his 2nd term as the first African-American President of the United States and leader of the free world. It is also fitting that the Obama family will once again sleep tonight in the White House, a residence that black slaves built."
Hear! Hear!..DJ.
And not to dismiss in any way how Pres. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ties into all of this ….but TODAY….
I am also most grateful to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson for the Courage it took for him to fight for the passage of (and sign into law) the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Quote For The Day
"..the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
taken from Dr. King's "How Long Not Long" speech given on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, "after the successful completion of the Selma to Montgomery March on March 25, 1965."
Key Excerpts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Long,_Not_Long
Full text: http://www.mlkonline.net/ourgod.html