Jim Clyburn reflects on King’s legacy in light of Obama’s win

Posted by Kendall Harmon

"Dr. King had come face to face with what he felt to be his eventuality. He was prepared," [Jim] Clyburn said in remarks at a University of South Carolina breakfast commemorating King.

Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the son of a minister, said the election of Barack Obama 40 years after King's assassination is the same period of time the Bible describes between Moses' message to the Israelites of a promised land and their arrival there.

"I don't know, but it seems ordained to me."

Read it all from the local paper.

Filed under: * Culture-WatchRace/Race Relations* Economics, PoliticsPolitics in General* South Carolina

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