They don't have exclusive rights to Dr. King's legacy. Can't have it both ways folks. You want him to be the black George Washington? You want him to usurp President Washington's Birthday as a Federal holiday? Yet you don't think it's appropriate for the President to lay a wreath. The implications are... revealing.
Please do not compare Martin Luther King to George Washington. That is totally inappropriate.
George Washington is the one unifying figure in American History--the one we all acknowledge as a force for what became the fundamental American ethos. Martin Luther King was one of the most dividing figures ever to live in the United States.
Whether you agree with him or not; whether you think he was a Marxist or not; whether, whatever-- He was no George Washington.
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