Everything MLK did was to further

his political career. He reached his prominence on the backs of gullible

blacks, and the communist groups with whom he sympathized (Weathermen,

Black Panthers, SDA, BSU, SNCC, RNA, SCLC, et al).

[He was an] adulterer, anti-American

Vietcong sympathizer, plagiarist (even the "I Have A Dream"

speech was taken from a speech by Archibald Carey, a black preacher, given

to the Republican National convention of 1952), instigator of riots. [He

also was] a great orator, a charismatic leader, an intelligent focused

man.

Is the good he might have done

not enough to sustain his place in history, without erasing and fictionalizing

the facts about his life? There is a long list of black Americans much

more deserving of hero status than Martin Luther King Jr.

Lost in this preening adulation

is the fact that Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act, while the

Democrats did not.

Victoria A. Wanzer

Peachtree City

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