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Charles, what a heavy email. And it's all
so true. I have said repeatedly that the white christian male is the most
discriminated against in today's society. I always get scoffed at...EVEN by my
husband who doesn't fully agree with me.
~*~*Bethany*~*~
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:17
AM
Subject: [Sndbox] FW:
Since many of us had Monday off, I thought it
would appropriate to give you
a few lesser know facts about our benefactor
of this three day weekend.
Four things I'll bet you
didn't know about Martin Luther King:
1. His name wasn't
Martin Luther. It was Michael. It was decided Martin
Luther had
a more prominent ring to it, so he went by that. He never
legally
changed his name. To this day, he lived and died as Michael
King.
2. While working on his dissertation for his
doctoral degree at Boston
University, he heavily plagiarized from another
author who had done research
on a subject similar to King's. An
academic committee later found that over
half of Kings work was
plagiarized, yet would not revoke his doctorate
degree.
King was dead by
this time, and the committee ruled that revoking the title
would
serve no purpose. It was also discovered that King's famous I HAVE
A
DREAM speech was also not his own. He stole it from a sermon by
Archibald
Carey, a popular black preacher in the 1950s.
3. King was under FBI surveillance for several years (until he died) due
to
his ties with Communist organizations throughout the country.
King
accepted money from the organizations to fund his movements. In
return,
King had to appoint Communist leaders to run certain districts of
his SCLC
(Southern Christian Leadership Conference), who then could project
their
Communist ideas to larger audiences. A federal judge in the
60's ruled that
the FBI files on King links to Communism to remain
top-secret until 2027.
Senator Jesse Helms appealed to the Supreme Court in
1983 to release the
files, so the bill in the Senate to create the Martin
Luther King Federal
Holiday could be abolished.
He
was
denied.
4. One of King's closest friends, Rev. Ralph
Abernathy, wrote a book in
1989 in which he talked about King's obsession
with white prostitutes. King
would often use church donations to have
drunken sex parties, where he would
hire two to three white prostitutes,
occasionally beating them brutally.
The FBI agents who monitored King have
also reported this. King was married
with four
children.
Martin Luther King Day is a day on which
this country comes to a
screeching halt so we can have parades and
memorials to honor this man, a
man that most of the world views as a saint
for his role in the civil rights
movement. No other public holiday in
the United States honors a single
individual. Of all the great
leaders in our Nation's history--none of them
have their own holiday.
All of our great war heroes share Memorial Day; all
of our great presidents
share President's Day. Yet King--a man who was a
phony, a cheater, a
traitor, and a sexual degenerate gets a day of his own.
I have a big
problem with that. I'm not trying to take anything away from
black
people but I am simply trying to point out that the vast majority of
people
are sorely mistaken about Michael King; and reverse discrimination
is
blatantly obvious everywhere you look today.
Have
you been watching the news lately? President Bush just got himself
in
some hot water when he spoke out against the University of Michigan
for
giving black applicants precedence over more qualified white
applicants.
Now
Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, and other black leaders are
trashing him, without
a doubt planning how they can use this. Think
about that--Bush just made a
stand for equal human rights, but lo and
behold--in this case the blacks
didn't want to be treated as
equals.
Make up your own minds, but I feel like I belong
to one of the more
abused ethnic groups in this country today. Can I
do anything about it?
Absolutely
not. If I dare speak out I'll get
labeled a racist, harassed by the media,
subsequently lose my job, and
never be able to show my face in public again.
But what I
can do is send this e-mail in hopes that when you're watching
the evening
news on Martin Luther King Day, and you observe our politicians
falling all
over themselves to be filmed in a black church, you'll keep
these above
facts in
mind.
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