WASHINGTON – Barack Obama yesterday called on a nation reeling from economic crisis and war to march together in the spirit of Martin Luther King as he prepared to take office as America’s first black president.
‘Tomorrow [today], we will come together as one people on the same mall where Dr King’s dream echoes still,’ Obama said 24 hours before his inauguration, as he marked the national holiday commemorating the slain civil right hero’s birth.
‘As we do, we recognise that here in America, our destinies are inextricably linked,’ he said in a statement.
‘We resolve that as we walk, we must walk together. And as we go forward in the work of renewing the promise of this nation, let’s remember King’s lesson – that our separate dreams are really one.’
A new CNN poll said nearly seven in 10 African-Americans believe that with the election of Obama, King’s dream of racial equality has been fulfilled. – Nampa-AFP news@namibian.com.na
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