REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING, THE GREATEST AMERICAN WHO EVER LIVED

I must today pay homage to the greatest American who has ever lived, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

I personally did not decide that Rev. King was the greatest American who ever lived. That decision was rendered by our federal government in 1983 after 15 years of agitation by Rep. John Conyers, (D. MI), agitation which began four days after King’s assassination in 1968: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mlkhistory1.html.

A number of states resisted the designation of an MLK holiday, including the last holdout, Arizona, which ultimately, like other states, conceded to protect its tourist industry after threats to bury said industry by MLK -holiday supporters.

All that unpleasantness aside, the third Monday in January has been designated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. That is a unique honor since Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and even FDR and JFK have been mushed into a generic “President’s Day,” celebrated some time in February of each year.

Martin Luther King, Jr. remains the only American who has ever lived who has been honored with a national and state holiday. That must obviously mean he was the greatest American who has ever lived, no?

When do the blockbuster King sales begin?