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Obamas make MLK Day one of service - Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mlkday20-2009jan20,0,6173161.story - broken link)
Paying tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., President-elect Barack Obama took time on the eve of his inauguration Monday to roll up his sleeves and paint a shelter for homeless youths. Meantime, Michelle Obama filled bags with toothpaste, lotion and other supplies to be shipped to troops overseas.
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While the Obamas performed public service, African American leaders, joined by Obama's former Republican presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, held a summit at a Washington high school, where they announced that they would take on education as the next major civil rights challenge.
McCain has signed on with the Education Equality Project and will work with civil rights activists, education administrators, mayors and other politicians to address disparities in public schools.
"There is no way we could work effectively to celebrate Dr. King's birthday than to make education the top civil rights issue of the 21st Century," McCain said as the mostly black audience gave him a standing ovation. "President Obama will work to unite us, and this issue is the most difficult issue that we face."
If Sharpton and Gingrich are working together on a project, either hell has finally frozen over, or the tone of the nation and politics has changed. About time! I think everything Obama has done has helped lead us to this bipartisan spirit. God help us, we needed to start working together and quit fighting each other. As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy, and it is us." Maybe, just maybe, we can remember the divisiveness of the last 20+ years and maintain this new and growing spirit of working together.
BO may have a huge indirect effect.
He provides an excuse to black kids for studying since "even a black kid" can be president. A FAR superior role model to the turds infesting rap and sports.
He does not speak ebonics.
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