For that reason, I would have opposed MLK blvd and would have pushed for naming after a respected local or state level black leader there instead.
I don't know any in GR(other side of the state from where I'm at), but I can think of a few with Michigan ties. Dave Bing is the first to come to mind. I don't think this would even be news if it was him. Bing was a Pistons Hall of Famer and also a business owner who is now trying to open charter schools in Detroit.
Agreed.
sad fact of life is that now politicians are "required" to name SOME street after MLK in order to appease the 90% of black people who vote for the democrat party.
Where this PC mandate runs into problems is when they have to replace a historic non-civil rights related name. Merchants are trapped in a catch 22. If they oppose a name change they are called racists, if they allow the name change they business gets hurt.