In the name of love...

Some person has put up a web site slandering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm not giving you the URL because I DO NOT want you to go to this website. It is a racist, hate-filled piece of hack propaganda created for what reason God only knows.

I am a great admirer of Dr. King but I realize that he was not perfect. He, like the rest of us, made many mistakes. The owner of the site in question is highlighting the man's shortcomings, mixing this with some lies and innuendo while downplaying his contributions and courage in the face of hate and racism very much like that presented on this site.

They are also hoping no one cares enough to do anything about it.

I took a quick look at the site and I know enough about Dr. King to know that some of the information is blatantly false and other parts of it, while possibly true, are presented in a biased manner.

Most of us realized long ago that there is a LOT of BS on the world wide web.

(God bless your little head if you haven't yet realized that)

I mean, David Icke, Fred Phelps and moi, among many others, all have their own websites for cryin' out loud.

But here's the bigger problem: this website has garnered Google's top ranking for hits on MLK.

There are folks out there who will take a top ranked site as gospel without using any common sense or verification of the facts.

As sad as that is, it is even more sad that some, like the creator of the top ranked MLK site, will use this for nefarious purposes, thus duping many more well intentioned and impressionable - can I say naive - souls into believing their crap.

What can be done about this?

First, please DO NOT visit and DEFINITELY do not link to this site. That will only increase their ranking. That's why I didn't give you the URL. Even typing it into a blog post could be counted as a 'hit'.

Second, there is a movement brewing in cyberspace to 'GoogleBomb' them into submission. Here's how it works: if enough people link to legitimate sites about Dr. King, then the phony one will lose its top ranking and therefore be less likely to lead someone astray.

Here goes:

Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King

I ask everyone to do something similar. I realize some will be hesitant to do this because it is somewhat sneaky. But there is nothing dishonest or hypocritical about it, we are simply using the bad guys' methods against them.


(Hat Tip to John at Lake Neuron)