Strom Thurmond asked FBI to investigate MLK.

[Ebowed]

I don't (sadly) find this surprising at all.  Thurmond was always one of the most vocal supporters of racism and segregation, at least until the mid 1970s.  To this day the KKK wants the MLK holiday abolished because they believe that MLK had ties to Communism!  It's a very sad past, though I'm not sure why it was brought up given that Thurmond is dead (I had enough of the guy when that Trent Lott controversy occured) and that the event took place in 1965.

[Ebowed]

Should we abolish President's Day then, because Washington and Jefferson were slave owners?

good point on Wallace.

I think out of the first 15 Presidents only 2 weren't slave owners. John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams.

Washington owned no slaves.

Yes, but he chopped down a cherry tree, which means he's anti-environment.