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Martin Luther King anniversary
stokes black fears of Barack Obama assassination
Toby Harnden
London
Telegraph
Friday, April 4, 2008
Four decades after Martin Luther King was murdered,
black Americans are torn between the hope that Barack Obama will
reach the White House and the fear that he too could fall to an
assassin’s bullet.
Electing the first black president of the United States
would be a dramatic step in achieving Dr King’s dream of
racial equality.
But the anniversary of the 1968 slaying of the civil rights icon
at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is a painful reminder of just
how fragile that dream remains.
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“You know it [an assassination of Mr Obama] can happen,”
the Reverend Billy Kyles, 73, who spent the last hour of Dr King’s
life with him, told The Daily Telegraph.
“It has happened for blacks who have done less than get
that close to the presidency.
“The closer he [Mr Obama] gets to it, we think in many
cases that it’s more likely that it’s going to happen.”
Rev Kyles, pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church in Memphis
for the past 49 years, was with Dr King and another preacher,
Ralph Abernathy, who died in 1990, in Room 306 of the motel for
the hour before the assassination.
“Martin Luther King had preached himself through the fear
of death and that day he was a different guy – light-hearted,
he was telling jokes. It was just three guys kind of hanging out.”
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