[Dilbert San Diego]

He was assassinated. He got a national holiday and a bunch of streets named after him which no one should be around after dark if they want to live a long life.

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Sad but true. I’ve noticed in my travels, in city after city, that Martin Luther King Blvd. is located in a bad neighborhood. Not politically correct to say out loud, but sometimes there are inconvenient truths in life.

[dfwgator]

I’ve heard truckers say that if they want to score drugs, all they have to do is find where MLK Boulevard is.

[needmorePaine]

Sad but true. I’ve noticed in my travels, in city after city, that Martin Luther King Blvd. is located in a bad neighborhood. Not politically correct to say out loud, but sometimes there are inconvenient truths in life.

Back when comedy allowed for a small amount of intellectual honesty, Chris Rock had a joke about it:

"Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence, but if you're in any city in America and you're on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going down!

If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they’re lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is 'Run!'"