"I do not determine what is right and wrong by taking a Gallup poll of the majority opinion," Martin Luther King once told an audience. "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." That last sentence needs an edit, but the man was right. Valleywag will take the afternoon off to give you time to do some back-reading and YouTube-watching on King and the civil rights movement. Try not to be too obvious about friending Adrian Covert at Gizmodo today.

Prominent media figures are climbing over each other to offer their opinions on the Imus affair, but, until now, we had yet to hear from one of the most important voices of the age. It was worth the wait.