That Kleinheider guy over at Post Politics links to a statement remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by one-time TN GOP chair and current Republican National Committee chair candidate, Chip Saltsman:
Although born in Nashville just days before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tragic death in Memphis, my life and the life of my country have been shaped by Dr. King’s vision of an America that was united by brotherhood and justice and that refused to be divided by race, color or creed.
Since those dark days of 1968, our nation has made tremendous progress towards his noble hope. While more work remains, his life and his service provide an ideal to which we should always aspire and which we should never forget.
While the pretty words are nice, Dr. King would probably have preferred that an initial disgust at the recording of ‘Barack the Magic Negro‘ would have prevented Saltsman from adding it to the Christmas mix cd he sent out as a gift last year.
And while Saltsman and his party try, in the words of Frank Rich in yesterday’s NY Times, to get passed the “spirited debate” about whether or not he did the right thing by sending it, the more troubling question is that after the insensitivity was brought to his attention, why didn’t he realize his gross error in judgment and simply apologize?
