Obama, Occupy marchers mark Martin Luther King holiday
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama led Americans on Monday in honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., while the Occupy Wall Street movement staged a new march protesting economic injustice.
Obama, the first African-American president, joined his wife, Michelle, and daughter Malia in helping build a library reading nook at a school in Washington.
Speaking beneath a sign with the words, "United we serve," Obama said service and diversity strengthened America.
"At a time when the country has been going through some difficult economic times, for us to be able to come together as a community, people from all different walks of life, and make sure that we're giving back, that's ultimately what makes us the strongest, most extraordinary country on earth," he said.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/16/us-usa-kingholiday-idUSTRE80F1QB20120116
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)What has he said against police riots upon peaceful protesters!? Against near-fatal injuries at the hands of police?
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(67,199 posts)Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Maybe I'm wrong but I don't recall a single Anglo country being on the recieving end of a Reaper or Predator.