Fine by me, and I’m less of a fan of him thanks to his supporting the butchery of Catholics during the French Revolution.
In any case, my point by bringing up Jefferson was to point out that if one is to condemn MLK for plagiarism as an irredeemable monster, the same ultimately would have to be done with Jefferson, and why quit there? Might as well condemn all of humanity for plagiarism and commit mass sui-genocide against as all as punishment for that crime.
I’ve heard it said there really is a very few number of original ideas everything is a re-hashing of them.