79% have favorable opinion of Dr. Martin Luther King

My first impression was, wtf? Shouldn't this be like, 21% higher?
Who in his/her right mind would not have a favorable opinion of King.
15% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of him. This is all from a Rasmussen poll released a day ago.

84% of Democrats, and 73% of Republicans, view him favorably:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/79_have_favorable_opinion_of_dr_martin_luther_king

But that's sure a lot of separatists...Weird.

Why do you think Huckabee was humping the confederate flag down in SC?

How fucking pathetic.
But let's face the fact that many of the things he stood for are still controversial today, such as the right to organize and peace.

Having lived through those days (called a 'n____-lover') I'm enormously grateful to see a vast improvement in attitudes. I lived (and went to college) in Mobile, AL, in 1963-64 when Wallace was Governor ... and the memories of the hatreds (e.g. "It's about time someone shot that s-o-b!") are still a horror to me. I lived in the inner city of Detroit in 1967 during the riots.

We have a LONG way to go to become 'sane' ... but (Thank God!) younger folks really can't imagine those times. Really.

In fact, my mom was at the U of Mich law library when she heard Dr. King was shot. She recalled some knuckle-dragger saying almost exactly the same thing you quoted..."Thank God somebody finally killed that son of a bitch!"

Unfortunately, as I stated below, even my own cousins, who are at the end of high school, are being raised to hate black people. It's sad to see that some things never change, but not unexpected.

It's awful. They live in Atlanta and they use more code words than anyone else I've met. Their mom raised my cousins this way and I find it totally disgusting.

We went to the Ebenezer Church, where Dr. King used to preach and Bill Clinton was caught napping, and their mom said "I wouldn't want to walk down this street alone at night". Of course, the people there were predominately black. My mom and I grimaced at each other.

One of my cousins is a FOX News loving, Confederate-flag-sporting racist of the George Allen variety. When I said our racial problems would be solved by interracial breeding, my cousin asked "But what about our heritage?" I wanted to puke.

While we were sitting in the church, my mom and their mom discussed what they were doing when they heard Dr. King was killed. My cousins' mom said "I don't know how I felt when I learned he died."

I wanted to scream: "You don't KNOW? How about a little fucking sadness for a fellow human being who was murdered, at the very least? Or do you not see him as a human being?"

Racism is nauseating enough. It's positively infuriating to know that my cousins in Atlanta are being raised as Bible-thumping racists and there's nothing I can do about it.

If anyone deserves 100%, it's MLK.