Colbert I. King: King Looking over Today Wouldn't Be Happy

Looking over the American landscape: College, business, officeholders, King would see that we have a long to go to get the promised land.

See Colbert I. King's What King Would See Today.

As for political campaigns, we're still stuck in Nixon's southern strategy employed nationwide. See 40 Years after MLK's Death: DOJ's War on Black Voters.

John McCain for instance, when convenient, right until 1987, supported Arizona's fight against establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday, and now McCain offers what many see as insincere apology now that he is running for president.

From Crook and Liars and ThinkProgress.

(Yesterday), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) apologized for voting against a 1983 bill creating a holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In fact, McCain also supported former Arizona governor Evan Mecham in 1987 when Mecham rescinded the holiday in the state. On MSNBC (yesterday), (Rep. John) Conyers (who authored the MLK Day Holiday Act) took McCain to task for apologizing decades later — the midst of his presidential run:

Well look. I’m happy. That was in 1983, he didn’t make any apology, he didn’t make any apologies in 1987, so I guess I’m thrilled and forgiving that finally when he’s running for President he remembers to apologize. No, that’s great. C&L has the video and story.

Conyers blasts McCain for his opposing MLK Day