1. His name wasn't Martin Luther. It was Michael. It was decided Martin Luther had a more prominent ring to it, so he went by that. He never legally changed his name. To this day, he lived and died as Michael King.

2. While working on his dissertation for his doctoral degree at Boston University, he heavily plagiarized from another author who had done research on a subject similar to King's. As academic committee later found that over half of King's work was plagiarized, yet 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 also not his own. He stole it from a sermon by Archibald Carey,a popular black preacher in the 1950's.

3. King was under FBI surveillance for several years (until he died) 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 60's 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.

4. 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.

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, a man that most of the world views as a saint for his role in the civil rights movement. No other public holiday in the United States honors a single individual. Of all the great leaders in our Nation's history-none of them have their own holiday. 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, a cheater, a traitor, and a sexual degenerate gets a day of his own.

Yeah but can I still have the day off? Thats the only important fact to me.

I knew three of those things.

Interesting......can you prove any of this ?

Otherwise I'm not sure if I believe ALL of what you say.

Happy belated MLK DAY!

Shoot!! John F. Kennedy made MLK look like a choirboy when it came to women. JFK was the Man! He had women all over the world, he said it helped his back. He had a who's who of women. Angie Dickinson, Marlyn Monroe, Judith Ekbert, thousand of girl reporters, Frank sinatra and Peter Lawford were his pimps and still they name all kinda buildings after him. MLK was OK he just has a holiday which is fine with me.

It's...interesting...how far some folks go to satisfy their hatred.

hardworker Wrote:
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> Interesting......can you prove any of this ?
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> Otherwise I'm not sure if I believe ALL of what
> you say.

Ive seen 3 and 4 before, sure about the other two. Never herd about the school thing though

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp

Tin Whiskers, what's your agenda?

Blessed are the murderous.

Sounds like he should have been a politican!

Wait... he was black?

Interesting fact about George Washington

1) He owned over 300+ slaves

( http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/will/slavelist.html )

We'll celebrate his day on February 20th.



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trogdor! Wrote:
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> Interesting fact about George Washington
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> 1) He owned over 300+ slaves
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> (
> http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/will/slavel
> ist.html )
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> We'll celebrate his day on February 20th.

You forgot that he grew his own marijuana as well.

And he drank so much he had his own distillery (that continues to this day).

How many people do we honor on Columbus day?

All the holidays are just excuses to get the day off. Who really gives a crap about Columbus or President's Day, which is actually officially Washington's Birthday according to a federal statute anyway.

Thanks to Olde Farte for the snopes link. The OP's post has that ring of urban legend, saved me the hassle of looking it up. Though it was an entertaining read.

If anything, all those things listed make him more real and human. So he liked whores and marijuana. So do a few billion other men. The Commies had money so he used them.At the time, the ends seemed to justify the means. sometimes you have to deal with the devil. Not everything is as cut and dry as Newt Gingrich would have you believe.
Its not surprising he plagerized a speech now and then. So do a lot of public speakers.

Marty (Mikey) wasn't even as bad as all these politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth. How many wives has "Family Values" Newt dumped for a younger model?
When King was around, there were still segregated diners, bathrooms and water fountains. Often police would turn a blind eye to Klan activities. He pitched in to make things better. Martin never claimed he was perfect like these sleazy politicians today do.

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