Four things I'll bet you didn't know about Martin Luther King and some comments:
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. An academic committee later found that over half of Kings work was plagiarized, yet would not revoke his doctorate degree. 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 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. The FBI agents who monitored King have
also reported this. King was married with four
children.
Martin Luther King Day is a day on which this
country comes 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.
I have a big problem with that. I'm not trying to
take anything away from African Americans, but I am
simply trying to point out that:
- The vast majority of people are sorely mistaken
about Michael King; and
- Reverse discrimination is blatantly obvious
everywhere you look today.
Have you been watching the news lately? President
Bush just got himself in some hot water when he
spoke out against the University of Michigan for
giving black applicants precedence over more
qualified white applicants. Now Jesse Jackson, the
NAACP, and other black leaders are trashing him,
without a doubt planning how they can use this.
Think about that - Bush just made a stand for equal
human rights, but lo and behold -- in this case the
blacks didn't want to be treated as equals.
Make up your own minds, but I feel like I belong to
one of the more abused ethnic groups in this
country today.
Can I do anything about it? Absolutely not. If I
dare speak out I'll get labeled a racist, harassed
by the media, subsequently lose my job, and never
be able to show my face in public again.
But what I can do is send this e-mail to as many
people I know in hopes that when you're watching
the evening news on Martin Luther King Day, and you
observe our politicians falling all over themselves
to be filmed in a black church, you'll keep these
above facts in mind.
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. An academic committee later found that over half of Kings work was plagiarized, yet would not revoke his doctorate degree. 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 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. The FBI agents who monitored King have
also reported this. King was married with four
children.
Martin Luther King Day is a day on which this
country comes 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.
I have a big problem with that. I'm not trying to
take anything away from African Americans, but I am
simply trying to point out that:
- The vast majority of people are sorely mistaken
about Michael King; and
- Reverse discrimination is blatantly obvious
everywhere you look today.
Have you been watching the news lately? President
Bush just got himself in some hot water when he
spoke out against the University of Michigan for
giving black applicants precedence over more
qualified white applicants. Now Jesse Jackson, the
NAACP, and other black leaders are trashing him,
without a doubt planning how they can use this.
Think about that - Bush just made a stand for equal
human rights, but lo and behold -- in this case the
blacks didn't want to be treated as equals.
Make up your own minds, but I feel like I belong to
one of the more abused ethnic groups in this
country today.
Can I do anything about it? Absolutely not. If I
dare speak out I'll get labeled a racist, harassed
by the media, subsequently lose my job, and never
be able to show my face in public again.
But what I can do is send this e-mail to as many
people I know in hopes that when you're watching
the evening news on Martin Luther King Day, and you
observe our politicians falling all over themselves
to be filmed in a black church, you'll keep these
above facts in mind.
