MLK was not a good man. He also was neither a legitimate Reverend nor a Doctor. He WAS however an avowed Communist Party member with a penchant for buying and raping prostitutes in seedy hotel rooms. Hardly the kind of person we should be lionizing anymore than George Flloyd who while he didn't deserve to be killed, at that moment at least, was a fucking scumbag piece of shit who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint.
But I am sure the murals lionizing both will continue.
The allegations that Dr. King was a communist will never go away just as the allegations that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians will never go away--despite the fact that both men were apparently surveilled extensively in an effort to prove their supposed guilt. For his part, Dr. King was regularly and consistently surveilled by the FBI from 1963 to 1968. Do you really believe that with surveillance of that intensity, and considering the danger he was held by the authorities to pose, that if actual damning information of anything incriminating had been found during said surveillance, that he would have been immediately hauled before a grand jury?
My guess is that fake news reigned supreme during that period too.
It may seem possible to some that Dr. King was a womanizer similar to JFK or LBJ and I will not argue either side of that case at this point although I would suppose that if Dr. King committed adultery in a state for which it was a crime, that he would have been prosecuted for it. There are tape recordings which supposedly establish said adultery which will be released to the public in 2027. I suppose at that time we will discover how convincing the contents of those tapes are.
Dr. King received a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1955. His dissertation was entitled
A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.
A problem was later found with the dissertation, however, indicating that significant sections of it were appropriated without proper attribution. Specifically, it appears that portions of the dissertation were plagiarized. It has been assumed in some quarters that this may have been unintentional and that his faulty citation practices were rooted in the notecards he created while conducting his research. Specifically, large sections of the expository chapters are verbatim transcriptions of notecards in which errors he had made while creating his notes were perpetuated. Others suggest that the mistakes were too pervasive to escape intent.
Regardless, his Ph.D was not withdrawn and his natural elegance is inescapable. His "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is a great work undoubtedly equal in eloquence to that of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."
Truly, while it is possible that he, like many other great men, may have had certain personal defects, the impact of his use of the English language was truly remarkable. The power of his words moved a nation. Truly, he was a man for the ages, a great man indeed.