Martin Luther King Day, a day when this country will come to a screeching halt so we can have parades and memorials to honor this man that most of the world views as a saint for his role in the civil rights movement. No other public holiday in the U.S. honors a single individual. All of our great war heroes share Memorial Day. All of our great presidents share President’s Day. Yet King, a man who was a phony, cheater, traitor and sexual degenerate gets a day of his own.
1. While working on his dissertation for his doctoral degree at Boston University, King heavily plagiarized from another author who had done research on a similar subject. The academic committee later found that over half of King’s work was plagiarized, but would not revoke his doctrine. King was dead by this time, and the committee ruled that revoking the title would serve no purpose. It was also discovered that King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech was not his own. He stole it from a sermon by Archibald Carey, a popular black preacher in the 1950s.
2. King was under FBI surveillance for several years due to his ties with communist organizations throughout the country. King accepted money from the organizations to fund his movements. In return, King had to appoint communist leaders to run certain districts of his SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), who then could project their communist ideas to larger audiences. A federal judge in the 1960s ruled that the FBI files on King links to communism to remain top-secret until 2027. Senator Jesse Helms appealed to the Supreme Court in 1983 to release the files, so the correct bill in the Senate to create the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday could be abolished. He was denied.
3. One of King’s closest friends, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, wrote a book in 1989 in which he talked about King’s obsession with white prostitutes. King would often use church donations to have drunken sex parties, where he would hire two to three white prostitutes, occasionally beating them brutally. This has also been reported by the FBI agents who monitored King. King was married with four children.
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I have no problem with making MLK Day a federal holiday. What I do have a problem with is watching a bunch of liberals carrying signs that have to do with every liberal cause other than civil rights on an MLK march. I witnessed three such instances this past MLK Day.
I’m sorry, left-wingers, but MLK Day belongs to ALL of us, liberal, conservative, black, white, red, yellow and brown, and we’d like to discuss civil rights advances on that day and in that context, not what the greedy CEOs have been up to or abortion rights or gay marriage or what the evils of war are.
There are no Civil rights under this administration.
Because, every war needs a hero.
got my vote
Because having it in honor of a real person is more inspirational, especially as a kid. Kids look up to real people and try to emulate them, and he’s a pretty great role model, despite his faults. Today especially there’s a lack of good role models, and having a day every year to point out a good one is a very nice example to set. Concepts like civil rights are much more difficult and boring for a kid to grasp and would not have the same effect. As an adult, it really wouldn’t matter much, to me at least. Besides, everyone has faults. By your logic, we should have no holidays in honor of anyone, as everyone’s bound to have faults.
Civil rights day would be fine with me…but cannot quite figure this particular effort on your behalf against the person of MLK. You did a lot of work to come up with negative stories about him, but I don’t see any positive ones. Why is that?
Civil Rights day may be a better name, although he did bravely lead the movement. But others gave their lives for voting rights, black and white. It was a terrible time in our country and honoring those who gave their lives and whose lives were threatened would be a good thing.
Read “Letters from a Birmingham Jail.” It’s really good.
I would rather have a national Civil Rights Day, because a holiday in honor of King elevates him above everyone else, which is undemocratic, and ignores the countless contributions of men and women of all colors and origins who risked their safety and lives to defeat segregation and legal racism.