Originally Posted by The Batlord

The modern perception of MLK always bothers me. Everyone likes to mythologize him, and forget that he was supposedly an adulterer and communist. I have no problem with him possibly being a commie---though being an adulterer doesn't exactly speak to his character---but pretending that none of that ever happened implies that if it were true that it would somehow tarnish his accomplishments. That the only way you can be a worthwhile person is if you're perfect and have no blemishes on your record.

**** that.

MLK got his poon on (allegedly) and still had more integrity than any man can be reasonably expected to have. I get respecting his memory, but the man is a symbol of the best of us, and if we treat him as more than a person (which actually makes him less than a person since he's now a fictional character), then how can we really emulate him? Someone as perfect as he's made out to be simply cannot be lived up to, but the real man has far more worth as proof that one does not have to be defined by their flaws.