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>> Give Jackson money and he'll go away.

This. Remember when beer distributorships were harming minority communities by entrenching already dominant companies? And then Jackson's kids mysteriously ended up owning a distributorship or two...and suddenly all was well? http://www.martinlutherking.or...

Try visiting http://www.martinlutherking.org/ It's a good example of what happens when you don't control your brand online. It gave a good opportunity to show how you shouldn't just blindly agree with everything you find on the internet.

Oh, I'd heard of the "I Have a Dream" speech all right, but I wouldn't have known his relatives were greedy money-grubbing leeches, wouldn't have known that he basically plagiarized large portions of his thesis, and wouldn't have known that someone else had delivered a speech very much like his "I Have a Dream" speech before he had. I also probably wouldn't have heard about this.

It is indeed a moral and cultural disgrace that there are those who would try to censor the King's words like this.

I am familiar with this site - http://martinlutherking.org/ that the King family and others have been trying to shut down for years - unsuccessfully thankfully. It is a very good resource for a educational MLK material and millions of schoolchildren access it every year.

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Man-children maybe.

It is indeed a moral and cultural disgrace that there are those who would try to censor the King's words like this.

I am familiar with this site - http://martinlutherking.org/ that the King family and others have been trying to shut down for years - unsuccessfully thankfully. It is a very good resource for a educational MLK material and millions of schoolchildren access it every year.

These are the two most disgusting people that I've ever seen, right up there with the jewish Illuminist-created KKK. Martin Luther King led his protest when the ghettos back in Jew Jersey were forcing black-Americans to pay rent ~ $75 per-head while all other races were allowed to pay-rent for the entire chamber regardless of head-count. Something about that matter reflected prejudices by landlords that their property was damaged more by black-Americans than anyone else, and I don't know if it was meant as a cultural damage of having them in the area or the fact that they seriously damaged the verry building structure. Martin Luther King led an aggrivated mob of racists that looted and burnt buildings as they marched to political centers for speaching rights, then they led the movement to avert my Civil Rights by supplementing their civil rights to handicap over my Civil Rights. There is a difference, and the more you help someone be more "civil" is only a fact that their legislated handicap of compelled domestication will ruin them while intimidating the competition around them. Then there is the fact that Martin Luther King stole his Thesis from a jewish professor at a University, that he gained political and funding assisting from known Communist infiltraitors, and he raped three white women the night before that CREATURE known as Martin Luther so-called King was shot dead.

Then you have Al Sharpton: a man the openly associates with another man Kamau Kambon that calls for the open KILLING and RAPE and THEFT against ALL "Whites" claiming they are mutants of African culture kicked out of Africa into Europe and spreading to America. Of'course he moves politic outside of the light of the Media, because it would show him for what he is.

Yesterday, as a matter of fact. :-)

Strangely enough, people were doing first-rate research for many years before computers (and computerized catalogs) came along.

Plenty of good schools still maintain card catalogs (often in tandem with online catalogs). Card catalogs do offer some advantages over computerized catalogs -- and those who actually develop the research skill to use a card catalog properly appreciate its ability to spur "serendipitous" finds of good information.

In fact, careless use of computers has in many cases weakened students' research skills, as they too often confuse "googling" with "research." Doing a paper on Martin Luther King Jr.? "Hey, I'll just go to http://www.martinlutherking.org/ and repeat what they have to say!" -- and promptly get "F"s (unless they go to a school run by the KKK).

You have heard the saying, "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." Computers, as you say, are just tools. But this also means that, if they are used unwisely, they can also do a lot of damage and cause a lot of waste.

The site is produced by Lindows, and the bias is obvious. What makes me laugh even more is the example shootout with the "magic eraser" that makes it clear that they think Lindows is the best distro available. There is no talk about compensating the Fedora and Mandrake products, and there is only minimal support included. If a site doesnt clearly display such an important bias, I normally write it off (just like MartinLutherKing.org ... yet another example of where a (very important ) bias is not discussed)

I agree. I was contacted to block a website through our school district web filter.

www.martinlutherking.org

It's purely a hate/descrimination web site and the domain name is owned by a known white supremacist organization. But the kids that find sites like these view them as if they are fact! Kids don't do a whois search. It doesn't even enter into their minds that someone would post misleading and false information on the web. A simple Google search turns up all sorts of "information" that points to this "factual" website.

Part of me needs to block it, but kids need to see this stuff too, otherwise they'll leave school and suddenly vast swaths of the web are now "unhidden" and they won't know what to believe. Maybe I don't give kids enough credit, but it's a troubling thought that our censorship of the web might be doing more harm in the long run, and I'm a part of that.

I would really have to agree on this one. The internet allows for ultimate freedom, which is good, but also allows for ultimate idiocy.

Ultimate idiocy can proliferate freely if you find the right crowd to hang with online. I was recently trying to do a report about Martin Luther King, and I stumbled onto this site. It was without a doubt the worst craziest load of drivel ever contrived. It turned my stomach. It just goes to show you that the Internet exists for sharing ideas. You probably won't agree with all of those ideas, but it provides the ultimate freedom of speech. By providing this, you can "preach to the choir" of your group and find more like minded individuals for your idea to spread

Here is an interesting story on salon.com.

Apparently, some white supremacist group called "Stormfront" registered martinlutherking.org, and made it look like an educational site. Of course, it's actually an anti-King site.

Unbelieveable. They actually called him "an America-hating Communist".