Vancouver in spotlight on "Boondocks"

Vancouver got a shout-out on "The Boondocks" last night on the Cartoon Network. The show, based on the comic strip by Aaron McGruder, had an episode that wondered what would have happened if Martin Luther King, Jr. had been in a coma all this time (since 1968) and woke up to see the effect of his struggles on modern-day America.

In a climatic scene of the episode, he rails on the state of African-Americans today. At the end, he says something about not coming with you. . . "I'm moving to Canada."

There is a shot of a newspaper in the future, showing Oprah Winfrey as the new president-elect and King dead in Vancouver at the age of 91.

Again, this is in the mind of McGruder, but it's a scenario that could have happened, provided King had been in a multi-decade coma.