Wharton just delivered a stirring call to optimism and unity to fight the big issues facing the city, from crime to shoddy education.
He repeatedly used the metaphor of sunshine breaking through the clouds and cited the city's big accomplishments, from FedEx to St. Jude Childrens's Research Hospital.
"Let me tell you this. I can see the sun breaking through the crowds and I can feel the light streaming down on this great city ... and shining down on one Memphis."
He said tonight marks "the end of a much longer era of apathy, of divisiveness, of carelessness, of hatred, of discord."
"You made it clear that Memphis is ready to come together at last."
"Tonight you and the voters said we will. And I add to that, we shall."
He urged people to support not him, but one another.
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