NEWSMAX: Former UN Ambassador, legislator and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young — one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest aides — tells Newsmax that it’s particularly appropriate for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration to fall on the day honoring the slain civil rights icon — Obama owes his “very existence” to the man whose life and death broke down centuries-old barriers for African-Americans.
Young also said in an exclusive Newsmax TV interview that if King were alive today, he would commend Obama for his controversial executive orders and additional efforts to tighten federal gun laws.
“When John Kennedy was assassinated, he took the position that if they couldn’t protect the president with 400 or more Secret Service, that there was no need in him worrying – that when his time came he would be ready to go.”
“He said, ‘you know there’s nothing we can do about death. Everybody dies, and nobody has a choice about when they die or how they die. The only choice we have is what you die for.’ … (more)
