Do you believe Columbus Day should have been taken away and then make a holiday for Martin Luther King?

No, I don't. Columbus' achievement was real. Martin Luther King Jr.'s status as some kind of civic saint is phony.

Michael ("Martin Luther") King Jr. was a fraud, top to bottom. He got his doctorate by cheating; he got his religious degree through sinning copiously. His very first sermon, given in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, was stolen from a sermon by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick. And nearly everything of significance that he said or wrote afterward was likewise stolen from better and brighter men -- from men who never had a chance at the kind of honors that King got.

King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God," pirated passages from Edgar S. Brightman's earlier work, "The Finding of God." Another of King's essays, "Contemporary Continental Theology," was mostly stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton. Michael King got his Ph.D. in theology on the basis of a doctoral dissertation entitled "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman." It contains more than fifty complete sentences stolen from the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."

Even in the famous "I have a dream" speech was tainted by intellectual theft. Some of its ideas and imagery are stolen from the 1952 address of Archibald Carey to the Republican National Convention.

"Reverend" King was a moral hypocrite because he committed adultery frequently with prostitutes, whom he paid with money he stole from Southern Christian Leadership Conference funds. King spent his last night alive in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, having sex with two prostitutes and beating up on a third woman. He was also a political hypocrite because he preached "racial harmony" but wrote the foreword for a book entitled "Negroes with Guns" by Robert Williams, which urged Blacks to buy guns and murder White people.

King was a communist agitator who hired and gave cover to Soviet agents during the Cold War. Both of his personal secretaries, Bayard Rustin and Jack O'Dell, were members of the Communist Party USA.

Such is the man whom most other Blacks look up to! Such was their greatest hero. The only sense in which King really excelled was in being Mr. Slick. He got a doctorate he didn't deserve. He got a Congressional medal he didn't deserve. He got a Nobel prize he didn't deserve. He got a federal holiday he didn't deserve. Streets have been named for him, but shouldn't have been. And not one American in a thousand knows what kind of trash Martin Luther King Jr. really was.

I'd say a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. is much more appropriate than a holiday for Christopher Columbus. Dr. King was a huge presence in the civil rights movement, and Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indies, not America.

Absolutely, NOT ! Columbus was a bold explorer and achieved what everyone in his day thought impossible, and he crazy. He discovered the "new" world of his day. Brought great riches to Europe and began this "country".

M.L.King was an adventurer, in sociology, trying to discover a "new" way for his day. Why should one be preferred or denigrated for the other? We used to celebrate both Washington & Lincoln, now they merge into one for the "politically correct" crowd.

Many in this country do not understand history nor the value of these people. ALL should be recognized for their achievements, NOT dismissed like the Presidents and Columbus. Shame on the so called "Do Gooders" when you are actually a "Do Bad'er" for your lack of knowledge of history and your own bias.

Columbus Day and President's Day are largely rendered irrelevant since MLK day. Most universities recognize MLK day but not CD and PD.

At least Columbus, Washington, and Lincoln didn't cheat on their doctoral thesis.

MLK was a Good man and did alot more than Columbus > America would've been discovered anyway !

It's no big deal with me but if it were - it would be that it fuels the 'separation of church and state' controversy...Never mind that we have great chief executives who many people think out - greats Rev. King, meriting but denied such an honor.