[ConservativeMan55]

Excellent Article! Bravo!

[Radix]

Too tired right now to read it all.
It is true though.
The reason is, MLK and his words makes my spine tingle!
Just words,just words!
Forty years later it is still so!


Merely words!

[ErnBatavia]

I kinda love un-PC musings....this was great

[Malesherbes]

This is a dangerous subject to discuss, and that fact says a lot about contemporary American society.

[Humidston]

I was there. I lived it. IMHO, he was a Jesse Jackson with manners. He was arrogant, he swaggered, he *politely* bullied his way around the country, copying Ghandi. In the back rooms, he was a womanizer and he associated with people of questionable character. Give me a Jessie Lee Peterson over MLK any day!

What we have here is an excellent example of revisionist history. Nobody wants to say the emperor had no clothes.

[ctnoell70]

MLK's cult of personality in America is starting to rival that of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. And there are those civil rights leaders who think Dr. King is not honored enough!

[RnMomof7]

A local mom was talking to her 3rd grade daughter last year..the girl was a walking encyclopedia on Black history and had NO CLUE who George Washington or Abe Lincoln were on Presidents day..

[John H K]

I was in elementary school in the 70s, about a 40% black school, and I'd say we easily spent 3 or 4 more times studying Harriet Tubman than MLK.

And more time on Tubman than Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson combined.

MLK has committed the crime of being a man...Tubman is even more PC because she was a black WOMAN.

[yooper]

All I know is, I didn't get my damn mail today. Not sure if that's good or bad.

That said, I agree with the author. MLK was certainly an enigma and true folk hero of the 20th century, and not just to blacks.

And that said, I can with little effort point out many other great Americans who are equally or more deserving of a national holiday. Teddy Roosevelt springs to mind, as does George Washington Carver. Carver arguably did more for American blacks than MLK. Thoughts?

[mlmr]

About the same time that Doctor Suess's birthday became more important than Jesus Christ's

[LenS]

In my mind, the biggest mark against MLK has been the behavior of many of his associates and of his family since his murder. Their naked greed has been sad and reminds me of the aphorism that one is judged by the company one keeps.

The biggest mark for him was that he did stick to non-violence, helping produced a relatively non-violent end to segregation. Something that today's protester's have no clue about -- for some reason they think that a broken window, lots of profanity, and even some nudity will persuade others of the rightness of their cause. The "I Have A Dream" March would look very different if it occurred today.

[Age of Reason]

George Washington deserves his own day, and it should be celebrated on his birthday, whether or not his birthday falls on a Monday.

What are we supposed to be celebrating, Washington or three-day weekends?

[nicollo]

Granting that contempories are guilty of the hyperbole, we honor in King precisely that in him which upholds Jefferson, Washington and Lincoln.

I see nothing wrong with this.

[SteveH]

This apparently is reflective of the implicit agenda of the American Historical Association, via U.S. history textbooks for schools written by authors who are AHA members...