How Not To Celebrate MLK Day

There is no end to ignorance it seems as a small band of white supremacists marched in protest of Martin Luther King, Jr.

About 30 white supremacists marched through the streets of Jena, La., today to denounce the Martin Luther King holiday and the six black teenagers charged with beating a white classmate. The group of Nationalist Movement supporters — which the Associated Press estimated at 50 — traded sharp exchanges with about 100 counterprotesters who followed them.

Two Nationalist Movement supporters came armed, according to the Town Talk in Alexandria, La. The paper writes, Each brought a .357 Magnum handgun, a .22- caliber revolver and a sawed-off shotgun that they called a "street sweeper," because when fired it could take out 10 people. Police told the father and son from Tioga, La., they could not march with the weapons, and the men complied.