“Dr. King had come face to face with what he felt to be his eventuality. He was prepared,” [Jim] Clyburn said in remarks at a University of South Carolina breakfast commemorating King.
Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the son of a minister, said the election of Barack Obama 40 years after King’s assassination is the same period of time the Bible describes between Moses’ message to the Israelites of a promised land and their arrival there.
“I don’t know, but it seems ordained to me.”