Throughout the Martin Luther King celebration I attended today, I couldn't help but to reflect tearfully about the progress that African Americans have made since Dr. King's martyrdom in 1968. Much progress so far, but a dream yet to be fully realized for so many.
This entire we
ekend was a weeping season for me, as I know it has been for many others. While the strains of war and the current economic crisis are cause for our present concerns, my tears were tears of joy at the thought of the historical significance of the imminent inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, America's first African American president.
As we anticipate tomorrow, we recognize that it will be the beginning of a new pledge for unity and service to make America true to the essence of its divine inception. It will be a new and hopeful chapter in American history, and a moment that undeniably fulfills a once unthinkable reality . . . Read Full Story
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