>It is not my intention to besmirch his memory but to point out that ever person, leader or layman, has many sides and usually a diverse and possibly controversial history.

He was a complicated man. There is no question he did great things and was up against a terrible form of government that had to go.

I have mixed feelings about some of his history - he advocated bombing buses that carried white school children and even advocated that AFTER his release. My initial reaction is to compare him to MLK....but then again, he was dealing with a level of physical force even worse than what we had in this country. So the bottom line is that he was a complicated man.