GLASGOW — A change came just in time Monday afternoon when the snowy skies gave way to the sun as area residents made the 13th annual march from the Barren County Courthouse to the First Baptist Church in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.
The group met at the courthouse steps and heard from Glasgow Mayor Darrell Pickett before making the cold trip with police escort down Broadway and South Lewis streets.
During the march, William Brady said the national holiday has been inspired a little this year because of today’s historic inauguration of Barack Obama, the 44th and first African-American Presi-dent.
“I think it’s in the back of everyone’s minds today, but we’re really focusing on honoring Martin Luther King today,” Brady said. “Tomorrow we can celebrate Obama making it to the White House. Today, we celebrate the accomplishments of the past, tomorrow, we celebrate how far we can go in the future. It sounds like a cheesy proverb, but it sure is nice to realize how true it is.”
At the church, several people gave speeches, including Barren County commonwealth’s attorney Karen Davis.
Davis spoke of her time at Kentucky State University, at the time a black college, and said the experience made her realize that she and her fellow students “were more a like than different.”
The keynote speaker of the event, Pastor Troy Holbert of St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., was said to have just as much “hollership” as “scholarship” and Holbert did not disappoint.
During his speech, he spoke of dreams King had for the future and how people should not give up on their own.
“All of us can say today that we are living on our past dreams and the dreams of other people,” Holbert said. “I want to encourage somebody this afternoon to keep on dreaming, to hold on to your dreams. Without dreams, one has no plans or hopes for the future. Nothing happens unless it first starts with a dream. I want to tell you that we still have a dream.”
Holbert said today’s event in Washington D.C. shows that dreams still come true.
“Today, while we celebrate the drum major for justice, today we also stand on the eve of the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. We can now shout with anticipation and say that dreams still come true,” Holbert said. “In the words of Sam Cooke, ‘It’s been a long time coming.’”
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