Besides Jesus Christ himself, name one leader, from Abraham, to Moses, to King David, to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Reagan, who didn't have their own "personal issues". Heck, even Christ had his Judas.
No, we hold up MLK with respect because of his ideas. Would that we had black leaders of his stature today.
It is your right to nitpick and criticize, but in this instance it makes you appear small and petty - to me anyway.
Booker T. Washington was much more eloquent.
You're uninformed as to the truth about MLK.
He was a leftist radical who smeared American troops by calling them murderers and racists, killing anything that moved in Vietnam. He favored reparations, and had many well-known Communist connections. He called for a radical revolution of values in the US (sound familiar?) and stated that America was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. He sided with the Communist government in Vietnam, and said that it had good reason to be suspicious of the US.
Look up the text of King's 1967 Riverside church speech. Leftwing websites hold up that particular piece of oration as a masterpiece.
Hold a leftwing radical up with respect? Not this conservative. And if recognizing and speaking the truth about that Communist makes me petty, I welcome the label.
Wish for black leaders of his "stature?" Look around, we have plenty of them.
And just exactly what was "Reverend" Marxist Luther King doing in Memphis back during April 1968? Was this so-called "preacher" speaking of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the One Path to Salvation through His Blood? No Michael (his chosen name of Martin is another falsehood in a life full of lies and deception) King was preaching the satanic gospel of "social justice". His final days were spent marching on behalf of the thugs in a commie run union, AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
It's not surprising that MLK was champion of leftism as is the parasite he mentored, the equally fraudulent "Reverend" Jessie Jackson. Here's what the vile Michael King said about the great President Ronald Reagan:
When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor, can become a leading war hawk candidate for the presidency, only the irrationalities induced by war psychosis can explain such a turn of events.
King was no Conservative since he also was an unabashed proponent of reparations, stating:
Few people consider the fact that, in addition to being enslaved for two centuries, the Negro was, during all those years, robbed of the wages of his toil. Not all the wealth of this affluent society could meet the bill.Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages.
A few platitudes aren't the measure of a man. His totality is measured by his actions and the kind of people he surrounded himself with.