Micheal or Martin Luther King

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I have chosen to writte about Martin Luther King Jr. After we had a small assignment in school about him. He had a good reputation but was he really the man who everyone thought 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. In 1935 when he was 6 years old, his father got the inspiration to re-christen his son to Martin Luther King Jr, after the protestant reformer. Anyway, the man had a good childhood according to himself, and was destined to become a reverend of a Baptist Church ever since his grandfather started the tradition. But before he could be called a reverend 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 on 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 the same parks, swim at the same pools, go on the same busses, eat at the same restaurants and definitely not, go to the same schools. At this time black and white people were not equal.

In -53 King 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 was accepted to become a reverend 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 coloured people. After that, it only went up hill, he became more popular and got more attention than any other black man 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 how we know Martin Luther King, but that’s not who he was. According to Kevin Alfred Storm and his colleagues there is another side of King which 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 holy book 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 certain degree plagiarized. So why did he cheat when it’s a sure 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 necessary.
So King cheated, and the committee of Boston University knew about it. A meeting was held to discuss the accusations against king. The following is an extract from the documentation of that meeting: “There is no question that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation. However it would serve no purpose to revoke Dr. king´s doctoral degree.
They knew and did nothing, so King graduated. I think that the doctor and the reverend title should be removed from Kings name, since justice demands that when cheating occurs a student has to face the consequences, which in this case was to be expelled, which means no graduation and no titles.

A lot of the money that was contributed to the civil rights movement, SCLC was used by King to buy liquor, gifts and prostitutes (black as white). The prostitutes were 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 and organizing tours. And even his last night he spent having sex with two 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 learned to love the man, when it’s the cause we should have loved all along. How could we let the media so successfully suppress the truth and hold out a picture of King that can only be described as a colossal lie?
How did we let a man that cheated through all of his life, beat women, ripped off people and then bought liquor and prostituter, stand for something as noble as the equal rights of humans?

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