MLK Observed
Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Houses are "familiar territory for gangs and drug dealers." (Next Christmas the Times will report on the frozen wasteland that is the North Pole.) On the Op-Ed page the Times allows Rev. Jesse Jackson to reminisce about Dr. King's last birthday, and to suggest we attend the "unfinished business of making America a more perfect union."
The New York Post honors the late Dr. King by pretending to be pleased that Obama will become president, and the Daily News' owner/columnist Mort Zuckerman recalls King's historic speech, at which Zuckerman met many celebrities including Burt Lancaster, Harry Belafonte and Marlon Brando.
CNN reports that "more than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for race relations has been fulfilled -- a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008. With relief, Michelle Malkin decrees school vouchers the next civil-rights struggle, in which "Teachers' unions and government school protectionists have stood in the schoolhouse door." Most conservatives offer no MLK observances at all, which is probably a good thing.





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