Gingrich, Perry Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
The two candidates celebrate the late civil-rights icon and the strides in racial equality his struggle enabled
At a joint MLK Day appearance Monday morning, presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry put aside politics momentarily to honor the legacy of the late civil rights icon, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hundreds of black and white Americans filled the Canal Street Recreation Center in Myrtle Beach for a MLK Day celebration, where they heard brief remarks from both men, plus a stemwinder from black GOP congressman Tim Scott of Charleston. Gingrich took a solemn and reverential tone in his brief remarks. He pointed with pride to the fact that the very first bill he co-sponsored as a freshman congressman in 1979 was a bill to create a federal MLK holiday. "As a Georgian, I felt a particular obligation to stand up and say…
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