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Giving a day of commemoration to one of the world's most instrumental civil rights leaders whose peaceful words and deeds contributed to a whole new understanding of equality and brotherhood seems like a no-brainer. Martin Luther King Day's history, however, was fraught with controversy and took years just to get on the federal government's official calendars.

This morning I started noticing a trend on Facebook and Twitter. Some people were posting a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that was meant to make people feel bad about celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden. The quote goes like this: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy...