MLK plagiarist page

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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030502.html

Hello, I just found the Straight Dope site thanks to a political chatroom. I read the MLK article on plagiarism, and it said that MLK wasn’t a communist. I believe that Dr. King was actually a “democratic socialist”. Here is my webpage on this.

http://balder.prohosting.com/jerryku/redrom/mlk.html

Straight Dope’s statements on King’s sexual behavior were really surprising, and depressing for me :frowning:

Also, maybe some time Straight Dope can deal with the MLK conspiracy trial results. The King family won a civil trial in which the jury ruled in their favor, saying that the government helped to kill Dr King because of his increasingly radical politics and actions.

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I don’t know why any of this is surprising to you, given that you consider yourself an expert on King (and if you don’t consider yourself one, why did you create that webpage?). This has all been known for a long time. Yes, he was a womanizer. Yes, he plagiarized things in his thesis (a major thing) and in his speeches (a minor thing). Yes, he certainly had problems with capitalism as practiced in the U.S. I’m not so sure that “democratic socialist” is the best term. He wanted more redistribution of wealth through taxes and such, but he didn’t want state ownership of most businesses.

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I’m surprised once again! I’m shocked to hear that publishing a webpage on a person requires expertise on a person. Also, my source on the webpage says that Dr.King specifically described himself as a democratic socialist… and his close friends knew him as such.

I heard that King was a womanizer, but never to this extent.

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Nevertheless, he was one of the greatest heroes this country has ever had.

He was flawed, he was human but he was heroic.

Heroism is not defined by perfect character but by what humans do despite their own flaws.

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I knew one of his close friends and I would be interested in knowing which of his friends specifically have said that. You provide no information here about your source or how she or he would have access to this information about how Dr. King described his own politics.

It’s not that there is anything particularly wrong with being a democratic socialist. That pretty well describes my own beliefs. What do you think it means?

My heroes have never been perfect.

Gee, I don’t think I would put up a website about someone that I knew so little about.