MLK is the Israel of Black People

SC Congressman is mad that Hillary Clinton, a politician running for president, dared suggest that politics and presidents played a key role in passing the Civil Rights Act. You mean Martin Luther King didn't float down from Olympus on a zephyr and personally carve the CRA into marble with Zeus' lightning bolts? Get the fuck out!

Is this our new discourse, "Civil Rights belongs to black people and when you talk about it, you damn sure better mention black people first and foremost"? Some people will wonder if Kennedy's assassination, alone, would have been enough to get Johnson to push the Act, regardless of MLK. But then, I can speculate on that because I'm not running for president.