Everybody loves a fun day outdoors on the skeet shooting range. But when you are advertising a skeet shooting "fun shoot" on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the Deep South—or anywhere else, really—you should probably not feature a large picture of America's best known civil rights leader with accompanying text "Martin Luther King Jr. FUN SHOOT":
Military officials have pulled a provocative flyer featuring Martin Luther King Jr. atop a “fun shoot” at an Air Force Base in Georgia to be held on the holiday honoring civil rights icon.
And yes, you can see the flyer here.
Officials at the Robins Air Force Base are apologizing profusely for the screw up:
We realized the inappropriateness of the advertisement several days ago and immediately began removing the flyer. There was no malice of forethought in the flyer’s creation and it was never the base’s intention to portray Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in a negative light. It was an honest mistake, to which we’ve personally counseled the parties involved and will provide them with remedial training and appropriate oversight to prevent this sort of inattention from occurring in the future.
You have to wonder what the "remedial training" is going to consist of.