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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
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Biden: Americans should ‘pay Camping season 2023

attention’ to MLK’s legacy announced

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The Savaneta Prome Capital

Foundation condemns the
President Joe Biden speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, during a
service honoring Martin Luther King Jr. picking and taking of sea
Associated Press
glass from local reef
By AAMER MADHANI years removed from a violent insurrection,
Associated Press Biden told congregants, elected officials
ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden made and dignitaries that “the battle for the soul
a historical pilgrimage Sunday to “Ameri- of this nation is perennial. It’s a constant
ca’s freedom church” to mark Martin Lu- struggle ... between hope and fear, kind-
ther King Jr.’s birthday, saying democracy ness and cruelty, justice and injustice.”
was at a perilous moment and that the He spoke out against those who “traffic in
civil rights leader’s life and legacy “show racism, extremism, insurrection” and said
us the way and we should pay attention.” the struggle to safeguard democracy
As the first sitting president to deliver a was playing out in courthouses and bal-
Sunday morning sermon at King’s Ebene- lot boxes, protests and other ways. “At our
zer Baptist Church, Biden cited the telling best, the American promise wins out. …
question that King himself once asked of But I don’t need to tell you that we’re not
the nation. “He said, ‘Where do we go from always at our best. We’re fallible. We fail
here?’” Biden said from the pulpit. “Well, and fall.’’ The stop at Ebenezer came at
my message to this nation on this day is a delicate moment for Biden after Attor-
we go forward, we go together, when ney General Merrick Garland on Thursday
we choose democracy over autocracy, announced the appointment of a special
a beloved community over chaos, when counsel to investigate how the president
we choose believers and the dreams, to handled classified documents after leav-
be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping ing the vice presidency in 2017. Page 11
the faith.” In a divided country only two Continued on Page 2