Though it would probably made more sense if they had created "Civil Rights Day" to honor EVERYONE who fought for civil rights, and not made it about one individual. A good case can be made that Rosa Parks was an ordinary citizen whose bold action sparked the civil rights struggle anyway, and that King was just in the right place and time to (reluctantly) help make it a reality. The only downside to that is if we had created "Civil Rights Day" in 1986, the moonbats would probably be hijacking the holiday now and using it to celebrating gay rights (knowing they could slap blacks in the face who fought for REAL civil rights,and face no consequences for it)
Interesting enough, John McCain was one of those who voted against making MLK Jr. Day into a national holiday.
As I noted on another thread, it is pretty ridiculous that the mixed message that our side is sending with some conservatives wanting to pretend that MLK Jr. was a "card-carrying Republican" and staunch conservative, while other conservatives are still trying to claim he was an insidious far left wing anti-American communist traitor. King, like many people in history, was an example of shades of gray. Its unfortunate nobody can acknowledge that simple fact.