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Why is what has been going on here not "perfectly normal conversation." I respectfully submit that the majority of the the most vitriolic statements have come from the pro MLK crowd. And I would include you dropping the R word in that.

However, I do agree with you about one thing. I think "character assassination" is largely a distraction. The more important point is the one I tried to address above, the "civil rights movement." Many modern "conservatives" accept its virtue at face value. But is it really so clear that it has been positive? Most of the gains by blacks have been the result of changing societal values, not government intervention. While forcing blacks to set in the back of a bus, seems inconsistent with small government conservatism, assuming the bus was publicly operated, because it requires a law, the civil rights movement as a whole represented a HUGE expansion of government and Federal power. Is that something that small government conservatives should be celebrating? And if so why?

I think all here would agree that government can't fix societies problems and it's the people who do. And MLK was the leader of that movement of people. I don't think the original post was a 'normal conversation' nor is all the mud slinging. I just calls em like I sees em.