When President Barack Obama looks west across the national mall from the Capitol on Monday, his panorama will include the spot to the right where contractors are building the National Museum of African American History and Culture by the foot of the Washington Monument.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial will be to his left, obscured from sight but not from mind.
And, directly in front of him — across a sea of people who come to hear his second inaugural address — Obama will have a view of the Lincoln Memorial, the Doric tribute to the president Obama most identifies with and the backdrop for King’s most famous civil rights speech.
As he takes the oath of office on the federal holiday marking King’s birthday, Obama will place his left hand on a bible once owned by King, an explicit consecration of the often implicit connection between the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement and the first black president.
The comparison between the two men will be inescapable Monday, as will the debate over Obama’s treatment of the black community — a motif that has resurfaced again early in his second term over diversity in the upper ranks of his administration.
Sill, supporters of both Obama and civil rights may find this inauguration even a bit sweeter than the first, and that Obama’s tie to King is now stronger.
“If you look at what they’re struggling to do,” says Hilary Shelton, the director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau, “in many ways it is the same vision, that vision and commitment to help America become all it promises to be.”
Greg Carr, chair of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, said Obama’s reelection “accentuates” the historic nature of his presidency for the African American community because it validated his time in office.
”What may have had a sense of an insurgent victory four years ago now has more of a national consensus flavor,” he said. “With the first inauguration there was almost a sense that … we did it against improbable odds, but now it’s the norm of sorts.”
But Obama is still taking the Oath of Office amid criticism that there is not enough diversity among his Cabinet and White House staff. It’s the latest round in attacks that Obama hasn’t done enough for the black community. His campaign was forced to launch a drive to hire black staff, some African American leaders felt that he paid too little attention to black unemployment rates in his first term, and others worried that he spoke too infrequently about major civil rights issues. Often, the complaints came from black elected officials.
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