What "Santa Clausifying" Dr. King Looks Like in Practice

The esteemed Cornel West has previously noted that America has "Santa Clausified" Martin Luther King, Jr., effectively removing what the man clearly stood for from our psychological memory of him. We have, in other words, turned him into a cartoon -- one that teaches us to ignore much of what he stood for, because what he stood for remains such a threat to the political establishment in this conservative country.

But, then, what does "Santa Clausifying" really look like in practice in 2011? On...