Today is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. But to some of President Bush’s detractors, it’s just another 24 hours in which to celebrate anti-Bush day. Who knew?
Last Friday, President Bush visited Dr. King’s grave amid boos and chanting.
In New Orleans, more than 100 demonstrators chanted “Down with Bush” from behind barricades a block away from the D-Day Museum, site of the Bush fund-raiser. Many protesters wore T-shirts with the words “one-term president.” An effigy of Bush was set afire and had to be stamped out by police.
I won’t discuss the merits of conservative or liberal policies on race here–that’s for another time and another post–but for protesters to show up and jeer a man who wanted nothing more than to honor the memory of a great civil rights leader is unspeakable; their protest turned the benign event into a divisive political rally.
To make matters worse, President Bush was accompanied by family members of the deceased leader.
Escorted by Coretta Scott King and Christine Farris, King’s sister, Bush placed a wreath before King’s tomb, bowed his head in prayer briefly and departed.
The protesters should be ashamed.