Nearly five decades after Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech, we are here at the National Mall where approximately 2 million people are prepared to converge on the historic inauguration of our new president, Barack Obama.

Pretty symbolic to have inauguration day be the day after the celebration of Martin Luther King.

When you think about Dr. Martin Luther King, he’s the dreamer. But Barack Obama is the actual dream.

It had to happen sooner or later, and I’m glad that it happened sooner.

Some of the things that Martin Luther King talked about in the days that he was on the trail for civil rights, that’s coming to, it’s manifesting now, and it means a lot for us. It’s a year where we have our first African American president. A time that a lot of people thought that they would never see. I’m only 32, and I never imagined that I would see it.

Rosa Parks sat, Martin Luther King walked, and Barack Obama will fly.

And even though that’s kinda hokey, I think it’s true.

The promise that America holds is that every participant, citizen, and those who hope to become citizens, has an opportunity to get that dream realized.

All nationalities voted for him, and they did not judge him by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

There’s a spirit of hope in everyone, I mean, just look at the number of people that came. You know, the economy’s doing not well, but everybody’s here. Because we believe that tomorrow starts a brand new day.

Have to be here, have to be here to see it, history.

It allows us to bridge that Gap between hatred and love. So now folks are starting to see each other in the store and open the door for each other. Folks are starting to speak to strangers, and this is what the dream was really about. It really wasn’t about electing a president, its about the world becoming what the world really was supposed to be, and that’s one. And as the beetles say when the world become one, each will prevail.