http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.aspThe only "evidence" presented to me playing MLK to be a horrible person in this thread has been a StørmFrønt site. If Chaim has some solid things which paint
The man was no angel, but there are several people I think about who have demonstrated physical courage like MLK when I walk through an unknown neighborhood with my kippah on, and a reasonably large beard. He's by far not the only one, but I do like the man. My Mom warns me to be careful in what areas I wear my kippah. MLK did not have a choice about what he looked like, and between racism against blacks and antisemitism; a brick to the back of the head in the middle of the night is a brick to the back of the head in the middle of the night. If there is one person who knows what it is like to have Nazis role down their car windows as the pass me by on the side walk yelling, "I [censored] HATE YOU KIKES" with gnashed, exposed teeth... it is the black man.
G-d explained to the Jews they themselves are a terrible people, but they are the least terrible of all the others in Canaan. He nearly destroyed us for our stiffnecked ways. I see a people who are very prideful, and stiffnecked, and much like the Jews of Moses time in Egypt, not well educated. Reading starts as soon as possible in the Jewish home, in whatever language the natives of the country speak, as well as Hebrew. My friend Adam has known how to do mortgages since he was SIX. I don't think most Black people have that right now. - nor do they have Torah taught form an early age to learn morals from [the latter being more important]. I have no solutions for their problems [I know antagonism is a waste of time], but I can only explain how I think my society functions at a healthy thriving level [treat children as near-adults from day one on, when possible].- I think the best solution, for all public education, are school vouchers, school uniforms, and no tenure for teachers. And an end to hateful racist policies such as Affirmative Action, or racial quotas which basically say, "you guys are losers, genetic mishap sub-humans who need help getting jobs because you are cro-magnons" AA and quotas are the polite racial insults saying basically the same thing some say here in a patronizing way. - I have said ti to my black friends before, "you have to just sa f#uck it, the world may be racist, it may bot be racist, either way you gotta do your best and live for the next generation as much as yourself and instill that drive for generations to come. If you cant get hired at one job, create a job. I created my job out of thin air, and going to the public library, you know I am hardly the smartest person in the world... so you can do the same thing to. Start a corporation, for your work, and your families future, buy your own health insurance." - I can go on and on.I gotta add, "If you hate someone, make them compete for their business; do what they do better."
He may have plagiarized. I believe MLK cheated on his wife. I would be unable to maintain a friendship with him if he was a married cheater. He is a person who in other ways can be admired, certainly, he has value. Maybe he was just an average guy in the middle of an overall much bigger and more important event, and maybe he was the least horrible person of a stiffnecked people.
He was successful enough in what he sought to do someone felt the need to end his life before he could do more.
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