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Karl Marx is supposed to have written or said, "A people separated from their heritage are easily persuaded". Regardless of who said it, it makes a lot of sense. As long as Americans have historical heroes, there is hope for the future. And, as long as these are real heroes and not propped up by the press/media.
Martin Luther King is a modern day example of this. A check with snopes.com will confirm that there is several items of some concern which tend to diminish his importance. Because, at one time, not more than forty years ago, most Americans held George Washington as "the Father of our country". No more, thanks in part to the forces of political correctness. Now, he has had his name removed from schools, fom streets, from places of honour and prominence. Why? For the so-called "unforgivable sin" of being a slave owner. So, no matter that but for him, our nation might never have been or maybe it may have come about much later as many other English colonies were simply "given" independence. Therefore, even as modern day moralists hold the behaviors of past people to todays principles, we ought to hold todays people to todays morals. As one ponders the fate of George Washington, consider this: "poor is the nation which has no heroes. Poorer still is the nation which has them, but forgets."
According to Snopes.com, M.L. King was an adulterer, a plagiarist, was never even legally named "Martin Luther". As a plagiarist, it is most significant that this he did while working on his doctorate. But, because he was a "teachers pet", the college simply overlooked this most dreadful crimes of intelligensia.
According to Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded King, after his assassination, as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Confederence, in his autobiography And The Walls Came Tumbling Down, 1989, King did indeed commit adultery on his wife, Coretta. By pigeonholing King to one speech while disregarding the rest of his flawed life, the media has conspired to manufacture an artificial hero for the American Black, raising his status to artificial sainthood. If the Founding Fathers can be removed from their pedestals, and well it is to make an honest appraisal of their lives, King is just as fit a subject.