Oct

2011

4:01pm, EDT

Carolyn Kaster / AP

President Barack Obama, center, his daughter Malia Obama, left, and Harry Johnson, President and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation, to his right, look up at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, as King family members and the first family look on, Oct. 16, on the National Mall in Washington. From right are Marion Robinson, first lady Michelle Obama and Sasha Obama.

King and Obama family members view Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC

According to AP:

"I know we will overcome," Obama proclaimed, standing before the 30-foot (9-meter) granite monument to King on the National Mall. "I know this," the president said, "because of the man towering over us."

Obama and his wife, Michelle, and Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, joined a host of civil rights figures for the dedication on the sun-splashed Mall. The memorial is the first to a black man on the National Mall and its parks.

"He had faith in us," said Obama, who was 6 when King was assassinated in 1968. Obama told the crowd, "And that is why he belongs on this Mall: Because he saw what we might become."

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Cami.Farr

This looks a like a Kadafi or Saddam Hussein tribute. Big statutes looking down on the people. What Matin Luther King fought for was noble but this isn't. So third world which is the direction our current administration and their policies are dragging this country.