{"id":27696,"date":"2013-01-19T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T01:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27696"},"modified":"2013-01-19T01:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T01:57:22","slug":"inauguration-will-cement-ties-between-obama-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27696","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration will cement ties between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Inauguration will cement ties between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2013-01-15<\/p>\n

Wil Haygood<\/a><\/strong>, Reporter<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama<\/a>, with the nation and world watching, will share his Inauguration Day<\/a> spotlight with a Baptist preacher from Georgia<\/a> who launched a moral crusade six decades ago to wrest America from its brutal Jim Crow laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Future generations may mull the divine meaning of Barack Obama\u2019s celebration and pageantry taking place on the very day set aside to honor Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a>, the civil rights leader gunned down on a Memphis<\/a> hotel balcony in 1968.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Obama represents the last lap of this unfinished race\u201d to achieve equality, said the Rev. Jesse Jackson<\/a>, who was near King on the day he was slain in Memphis.<\/p>\n

The Obama-King moment is already imbued with a palpable resonance. \u201cIt is all so very deep to me,\u201d said Clarence B. Jones<\/a>, who in 1963 helped King draft his luminous \u201cI Have a Dream<\/a>\u201d speech that he delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial<\/a>, opposite the Mall<\/a> from the Capitol<\/a>, where Obama will deliver his second inaugural address.<\/p>\n

In the days leading up to the inauguration, Jones found himself in the throes of writing a letter to the president. \u201cI\u2019m going to ask him, \u2018If you could just pause during your speech on Inauguration Day and look at the Lincoln Memorial, and then in the direction of the King Memorial<\/a>, and say as you are taking the oath of office, \u201cMartin, this one\u2019s for you,\u201d he said…<\/p>\n

…Jackson points to the Obama accomplishments which make him feel most proud: The increase in Pell Grants<\/a> for students, more people working than when Obama first came into office, the ending of the war in Iraq. But because Obama is in the White House<\/a>, Jackson says it does not mask the concerns he still has.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we want is equality,\u201d Jackson explains. \u201cIf you put a black as head of the NFL, well, that\u2019s a position. But what makes the league work, why we\u2019re so successful, is that the rules are public, the goals are clear and the score is transparent. We have a black in the White House, yes, but beneath, the playing field is uneven, the goals are not clear and the score is not transparent. The infrastructure enforcement is where justice comes from. You want justice from the bottom up. You want equality from the bottom up.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inauguration will cement ties between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. The Washington Post 2013-01-15 Wil Haygood, Reporter President Barack Obama, with the nation and world watching, will share his Inauguration Day spotlight with a Baptist preacher from Georgia who launched a moral crusade six decades ago to wrest America from its brutal Jim Crow laws. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[9249,2875,2581,12672],"class_list":["post-27696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post","tag-wil-haygood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}