“I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness,” the inscription reads. The poet and author and one of the memorial’s consultants, Maya Angelou, told The Washington Post, yesterday… “The quote makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit,” she said.

Obviously, Dr. Angelou has Drumline on Blu-ray and therefore knows that drum majors are high-maintenance, hijinks-pulling, saucy-mouthed, hot-headed, arrogant twits.