King was a great man? King plagiarized most of his writings including his Doctoral thesis and he was a whore monger, a serial adulterer and enjoyed beating the white prostitutes he hired on top of being a marxist...
> King was a great man? <
Yes. Sure, King was a VERY flawed man. But here’s the bottom line. In those days, many blacks were advocating violence as a way to address racial problems. Malcolm X and his followers were in the forefront there.
King chose another path, one of non-violence. That was a bold and courageous thing to do. King gave blacks another option. As a nation, we are so much better off for that.
Don’t get me wrong. I see your point. But there are instances in history where a flawed person turns the tide. Lech Walesa in Poland is one of them. Martin Luther King in America is another.