Martin Luther King, the man we did not know.

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- Who he was
Michael Luther King Jr., and yes, you heard right I sad Michael. You see, when he was born in Atlanta the 1 of January 1929 his parents named him Michael, and it wasn’t until in 1935 when his father had an inspiration to name himself after the protestant reformer Martin Luther his name was changed. Although the name changing was never legalized so until this day his real name is Michael Luther King Jr.
Any way, the man had a good childhood according to him self and was destend to become a reverent of a Baptist Church ever since his grandfather started the tradition. But before he could be called a reverent he had to get a education, so he graduated from high school and Morehouse College (which by that time was a negro institution) and then went on to study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
In 1951 King began his doctoral studies at a university in Boston and it was there he explored Mahatma Ghandi’s non-violent strategy for social change, a matter that would have an important impact of Kings life and thoughts. After his graduation from the university he was fully trained and was ready to start his life outside the school walls.
With a wide and good education he was a role model for many people of the black community and we must not forget that during this time black people couldn’t go to same parks, swim at the same pools, go on the same busses, eat at the same restaurants and defiantly not, go to the same schools. At this time black and white people was not equal, the human rights was unfair.

In -53 King had explored his love life and knew that he had found his match, a woman named Coretta Scott had won his heart. They got married the same year and were blessed with two daughters and two sons. The following year he accepted to become a reverent of a Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and shortly after he became a member of the committee of the National Association for the Advancement of colure people. After that, it only went up hill, he became more popular and got more attention than any other black men before.

Martin Luther King Jr., was a man who wanted justice for the black people. He wanted people to be judged for who they were and not for the colour of their skin.
He became a world figure and a respected leader, and to this day, King remains a controversial symbol of the African American civil rights struggle.



- Another side
We all know him as an important, intelligent and loving person. Someone we can look up to and admire. That’s have we know him, that’s how we know Martin Luther King, but that’s not who he was. According to Kevin Alfred Storm and his colleges there is another side of King who we never knew, a side which we never were supposed to have known.

Let’s start with Kings first public sermon, which took place in 1947 at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Every word he sad was plagiarized. He had taken it from a homily by protestant Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled “Life is what you make it”. The first book he wrote, “Stride toward freedom”, was plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed. And the famous “The Martin Luther King papers” only contains 49 per cent that were King’s own words..
And so it goes on. His written works, his essay from the school years, his speeches, his books, they all were to a surtent degree plagiarized. So why did he cheat when it’s a surtent fact that he was a very bright man? Storm believes that it was because he had chosen a political role in which a PhD would be useful and by lacking the intellectual ability to obtain the title fairly, he took any means as necessary.
So King cheated, and the committee of the Boston University knew about it. That we know according to documentation from a meeting held for the accusations about Kings cheating. It follows; “There is no question abut that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation. Although no though should be given to the revocation of Dr. King’s doctoral degree. It would serve no purpose”.
They knew and did nothing, so King graduated. The doctor and the reverend title should be removed from Kings name, since justice demands that when cheating appears a student haft to face the consequences, which in this case was to be expelled, which means no graduations and no titles.

A lot of the money that was contributed to the civil rights movement, SCLC was used of King to buy liquor, gifts and prostitutes (black as white). The prostitutes was brought to his hotel room, often two at a time for drunken sex parties that could last for several days. These activities, as you may call them took placed during King’s speak and organizing tours. And even his last night in life he spent on having sex with to women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third.
Another thing to wonder about is why a judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year 2027, what are they hiding? What is it that they don’t want us to know?

So I ask, is this really a man to look up to, a man to admire? We have been thought to love the man, when it’s the cause we should have loved all along. How c...