I'd rather have a single 'flawed' person who actually takes a stand than a million 'perfectos' sipping coffee and moaning about the state of affairs in the morning paper.
This is your MOMENT!
MLK was a serial plagiarist and a serial womanizer, and those are proven facts which the Liberal Media has conspired to quash - UNSUCCESSFULLY!
When we play this cheap game, we are condoning the actions of the BJ Clintons and Joe Bidens of the world.
Giving the memory of this man a national holiday is an abomination.
Looking at Dr. King requires more than the media image of a martyr and his early days.
His last years were controversial. In 1966 his protests against housing discrimination in Chicago meant nothing to the masses of people who were content to be part of Mayor Daley's machine system. Daley and blacks loyal to him made King look like a lonely radical fool. His protests only led to Mayor Daley adjusting housing policies a little and King got no following because Daley out maneuvered him.
The opposition to the Vietnam War made King no friends at the White House and among President Lyndon Johnson's buddies on Capitol Hill who were fiercely attacking King over his anti-war position.
Among the critics and I've seen newsfilm of it was none other than Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd.
Dr. King's life and times are a more complex story than godlike status and martyrdom that make him part of a liberal-pagan trinity (RFK, JFK, MLK).
Jesse Helms never supported this holiday and the King FBI files are locked up until at least 2027.
The sex life of Thomas Jefferson was recently brought out into the open but how long will it take for a similar exposing of Dr. King's background to come out.
In the 1980's his former close associate Dr. Ralph Abernathy came out with a book saying that
Dr. King "was less than a saint." The book was denounced by the King family and Jesse Jackson.
It was then ignored by the mainstream media after the denunciations were put out.