Atlantans thank Obama: 'We can become something great'
The Rev. Martin Luther King is looking down on the United States, smiling, Otis Sutton said Wednesday.
"That's what he wanted. He'd been preaching that all along," Sutton, 78, said of the nation electing its first African-American president.
Sutton, who has worked on and off at the historic Busy Bee Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia, since it opened in 1947, was baptized by the civil rights icon's father, King Sr. He remembers playing pick-up football games in a dirt lot with King Jr. when they were both youngsters in Atlanta.
Asked if King Jr. was any good at football, Sutton chuckled.
"He liked to read and study," he said with a reverence that prohibited him from disparaging King Jr. in any way, "but he loved the game."
Walk around Atlanta and you'll find plenty of African-Americans who hope Sen. Barack Obama will inspire young people to reach for a book rather than a football.
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"That's what he wanted. He'd been preaching that all along," Sutton, 78, said of the nation electing its first African-American president.
Sutton, who has worked on and off at the historic Busy Bee Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia, since it opened in 1947, was baptized by the civil rights icon's father, King Sr. He remembers playing pick-up football games in a dirt lot with King Jr. when they were both youngsters in Atlanta.
Asked if King Jr. was any good at football, Sutton chuckled.
"He liked to read and study," he said with a reverence that prohibited him from disparaging King Jr. in any way, "but he loved the game."
Walk around Atlanta and you'll find plenty of African-Americans who hope Sen. Barack Obama will inspire young people to reach for a book rather than a football.