I have generally aways admired King, but he was not a saint. First of all, he was widely known for his marital infidelity. After winning the Nobel Peace Prize, he said "I've been to the mountaintop", but it looks like he spent some time in the "valley" too.
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Also, he was a plaigiarist. From wiki:
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In the 1980s, questions were raised regarding the authorship of King's dissertation, other papers, and his speeches. Concerns about his doctoral dissertation at Boston University led to a formal inquiry by university officials, which concluded that approximately a third of it had been plagiarized from a paper written by an earlier graduate student
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Now look at the libs trying to come up with excuses:
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but it was decided not to revoke his degree, since the paper still "makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship."* While some have criticized King for his plagiarism, Keith Miller has argued that the practice falls within the tradition of "African-American folk preaching", and should not necessarily be labeled plagiarism.* However, as Theodore Pappas points out in his book Plagiarism and the Culture War, King in fact took a class on scholarly standards and plagiarism at Boston University.
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* Free Black Pass
While these actions represent character defects, and the betrayal of his wife was particularly bad, I evaluate historical figures on their whole life, and in that regard, MLK comes out not bad. Not bad at all.
