False.
King was actually born Michael King, Jr.. His father was sent to Europe in 1934 by his church, for a meeting of the Baptist World Alliance. The elder King and others there with the Alliance saw enough of Nazism that 1) the BWA handed up a resolution saying, "This Congress deplores and condemns as a violation of the law of God the Heavenly Father, all racial animosity, and every form of oppression or unfair discrimination toward the Jews, toward coloured people, or toward subject races in any part of the world"; and, b) when the elder King returned home that August, after having visited assorted sites relevant to Martin Luther, he began to call himself Martin Luther King, Sr. and his son Martin Luther King, Jr.
King, Jr. in fact did change his name legally---right down to changing his birth certificate---in 1957.
Well, now.
1) We have a sitting president who cheated on three wives and got elected anyway. Are we being very selective when it comes to whose adulteries must be forgiven and whose, eternally condemned? (He's an adulterer but he's our adulterer!) Isn't that a tack to which we object vehemently when the left deploys it (reference Clinton, Bill), as so often they have? Are we really still to argue that the right (in fact or by supposition) earns that pass because the culprit is (in fact or by supposition) of the right?
2) This may be the best commentary you'll ever see about King's plagiarism issues, from 1990:
. . . [N]either the [King Papers Project] editors nor those of us in the scholarly community who have reviewed their findings have any dependable explanation for why King did what he did, nor can they say how aware King was of having done wrong. There is no getting around the fact that the scale of King's unattributed borrowings -- almost word-for-word copying of sentences and whole paragraphs without benefit of quotation marks on scores of occasions, often without minimal footnoting -- is extensive and substantial. In particular, King's heavy reliance on an unpublished dissertation completed three years earlier by Boston University doctoral candidate Jack Boozer is especially egregious.
Further, King's offense cannot be minimized, and any temptation to understate the extent of the problem would simply play into the hands of King opponents, who are no doubt anxious to discover further borrowings . . .
. . . Attempting to explain King's transgressions is a highly speculative and tentative undertaking. By far the most valuable resource at hand is the work of a young scholar at Arizona State University, Prof. Keith D. Miller . . . At the simplest level, Miller's research illuminates that King's ability to memorize -- and to retain portions of memorized texts for years -- was phenomenal. Multi-sentence segments of published sermons by Fosdick and by such other prominent mid-century preachers as George Buttrick, J. Wallace Hamilton and Robert McCracken turn up almost word-for-word in many of King's sermons. To cite simply one notable example highlighted by Miller, King's February 1968 "Drum Major Instinct" sermon, in which King seemingly delivered his own epitaph and which was played at King's own funeral, is extensively modeled upon a similarly titled 1952 sermon by Hamilton. Such parallels can be found in many ministers' sermons, including King's, but the rhetorical power of King's sermons was profoundly his own . . .
King almost always spoke extemporaneously, often giving sermons with no more than a brief outline in front of him. His oratorical repertoire was composed of notable quotations, extended metaphors and sermonic images that he had committed to memory. As Miller explains persuasively in his PMLA article, assumptions about words as property are fundamentally different within the preaching tradition than they are within the written culture of publishing.
. . . Academic commentators such as myself and Union Theological Seminary's James H. Cone have argued for several years that King the student was simply attracted to those authors whose analyses helped articulate values that King already held as a result of his church-centered upbringing in Atlanta.
But if appreciating the young King as a product of oral traditions makes his academic bad habits more understandable, it does not make them excusable . . . (I)n the cold, hard light of the King Papers Project's disheartening findings, there is no gainsaying the depth of one's emotional disappointment over King's plagiarism.
. . . King's greatness lay in his public achievements and private courage, not in his schoolwork nor in his sexual relationships. But we need to remember too, amidst all the relentless talk about the importance and value of "role models," a simple truth that Howard University's E. Ethelbert Miller succinctly articulated: "We must tell youngsters that role models aren't perfect humans."
Martin Luther King Jr. viewed himself as highly imperfect, once telling his Atlanta congregation, "I make mistakes tactically. I make mistakes morally, and get down on my knees and confess it and ask God to forgive me." Indeed, "God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives" . . .
---David J. Garrow, author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in The Washington Post, 18 November 1990.
I had to stop reading. You are wrong. We are talking about MLK....not my POTUS. MLK..was supposed to be a
reverend. . He was into all kind of debauchery. I never understand marriages like CLINTONS. NO DIVORCE...but both cheat and both go both ways. Yet stay together, as if, that is some kind of virtue. So people who their whole life CHEAT on the wife., get a pass, yet those who, don't want that, get blasted for wanting a better relationship.
Ivana caused the bankruptcy's, But POTUS never blamed her. Their marriage was already over. MARLA..cheated on HIM!
Then Melania, we don't know. STORMY has to pay POTUS 290,000.00 dollars for lying & extorting money from him, from
17 years ago! I care about his work and policy's. His private life is his own....said ALL LIBERALS ABOUT CLINTON & OBAMA. I didn't vote for a POPE, PREIST, PASTOR. I voted for a business man.
www.magapill.com The things you talk about, is TRUMP ENVY. My old post below. Every president has cheated, WHILE being president. NOT TRUMP AS POTUS.
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LEFTS ARE ALWAYS Goofy. DOUBLE STANDARDS. You must hate congress in DC who use a madame. You have some issues with people married more than once? Better to stay married & be a-holes to each other? Bill & Hillary go BOTH WAYS. GAY. Bill has a child with black prostitute, DANNY WILLIAMS. Hillary caught in hotel room with black female prostitute. Hillary raped Cathy O'brien. Bill has 19 more women of record, saying he raped them. Not counting paid off Jones or Flowers. BUT..Bill & Hillary still together. Obama..married to trannie...the bio parents of his kids are DR. ANITA BLANCHARD & Martin Nesbitt. Obama born in Kenya, fraud, con artist. Then gay male wh0re for rich white men to get his cocaine. Obama smokes, does pot, cocaine + loves beer so much, had a brewery in the White House. ALCOHOLIC? Issues with little boys. HE LIKES THEM. PIZZAGATE.
You need video of bouncing b@lls of Manchelle? My president does NOT drink any alcohol..ever, does not smoke, does no illegal drugs, does not drink CAFFEINE. You want to impugn him? Clintons cheat, Obama cheats, ALL KENNEDYS cheated. Teddy caused the death of his mistress. MaryJo Kopecny.
