Posted on 05/27/2019 3:38:10 PM PDT by OddLane
Historians have known for many years that civil rights icon Martin Luther King had been unfaithful to his wife. But now, David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his biography of King, has unearthed previously classified FBI documents showing that King was genuinely sexually depraved. From the Times of London (behind subscriber paywall):
A huge archive of documents recently released from Federal Bureau of Investigation files exposes in detail King’s sexual activities with dozens of women as he travelled the country campaigning against racial inequality...
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I’m sure that you can ‘view’ anything that you like.
There are several articles regarding David Garrow’s recent research into MLK’s records.
In house historian FReeper LS relayed that Garrow is a highly respected historian. And I trust in Larry’s opinion.
It will come out shortly, either by Garrow’s revelations or FOIA requests.
The whole thing has absolutely nothing to do with POTUS.
FBI ‘has tapes of Martin Luther King laughing as woman was raped in front of him’
The Mirror UK ^ | May 26, 2019 | Christopher Bucktin
MLK tapes: Secret FBI recordings-Martin Luther King of watching/laughing as rape happened-40 affairs
The Daily Mail ^ | 26 May 2019 | Jack Newman
He slept with 2 women the night he died at two separate places. He then returned to find his gf staring at his hotel empty bed, mad as hell at 7AM. They got into a physical altercation and King threw her across the room as Abernathy observes. I think she stormed out. King goes out for a smoke and pop pop pop. Either her or another King girlfriend shows and tries to climb into the ambulance with King’s body, Abernathy intervenes for King’s reputation.
I don’t care what a dead man may have done. I don’t know what it has to do with today, or how any new revelations will change the good that MLK was able to do in certain areas.
I do know that the article attempted to conflate MLK’s indiscretions with recent accusations against President Trump; and I see it as politically motivated. Therefore, it had a LOT to do with Trump.
(Maybe you and I have very different agenda.)
Abernathy was --- as I remember--- hated and shunned by the Civil Rights establishment for talking openly about it.
Even before that, a classic autobiography --- "Coming of Age in Mississippi" --- published in 1968 --- discussed the demoralization author Anne Moody suffered as a young black woman when she realized that idealistic advocates like herself were being sexually exploited by the black male leadership.
I don't remember if she accused MLK by name or not, but I do remember she painted a picture showing that the callous abuse of women was rather widespread.
It pains me to relate this. There was much in the 1950's and early '60's Civil Rights movement that was dignified in the highest degree. It's a shame that its nobility was defiled by behavior --- by some --- that was frankly bestial.
Mrs. Don-o, I have a lot of respect for you.
But how does any woman wind up being ‘sexually exploited’?
It seems to me that you are either outright overcome and raped - or you put yourself (naively or from some expectation of personal gain) in a *position* to be exploited.
That particular article in the London Times inserted ‘that stuff’ into the content just as easily as he could have inserted stuff about anyone else that is completely unrelated. Who cares what they say, ignore it.
The actual historian who will be releasing the information is a celebrated MLK and Civil Rights historian, and has been for decades. http://www.davidgarrow.com/davidgarrow-com/biography/
He has conducted over 700 interviews of King associates and was granted access to all of his personal papers to write the book “Bearing the Cross” 1987 about King.
So when Garrow comments on King, it is probably something which is true and worth reading. How you digest that information, is strictly your decision.
My agenda is the truth, where ever that leads.
What good is that ‘truth’ going to do now, decades after the man died?
Let me just say, for the nonce, that sometimes young women --- very young naive women --- think they're being loved by a great man when they're just being used as a sexual spittoon.
That was one of the infected roots of the modern feminist movement: women on the left who were persistently importuned or physically pressured or worse, and then treated like poor sports if they didn't go along.
There's more, but I'll leave you with that for the time being.
May God have mercy on us all.
I’m 65 years old, and nobody ever ‘sexually pressured’ me in any way. I may have fallen in love with one or two of those ‘great men’ when I was young and naive - but they never got very far.
Was I simply raised well? or were the men I generally encouraged in my environment (probably due to my upbringing, too) just *decent* ?
There are always going to be needy girls who are susceptible to nasty men. And the temptation exists to MANY men to take advantage of those girls. I think that’s just nature, something that’s been with us forever, and doesn’t involve a political point.
If it’s important at all, perhaps we should be talking about parenting, instead of a long-ago, flawed but genius, dead man.
I can’t see where any of the general gist of this thread is going.
King was not alone in the exploitation of these women. He was en-joined by many of his colleagues. Many, but not all were having a great time and using their passionate inspiring charismatic speeches to entice women. And some women got exactly what they wanted and others were coerced and abused as narrated by the documents released in 2013, 2017 and yesterday.
Abernathy and a few others disapproved and kept telling King to tamp it down. I guess he felt invincible, but the escapades were interfering with their work. Abernathy had morals. The FBI sent copies of King’s sex tapes to King and one separately to Mrs. King and threatened him with public exposure. Neither seemed to care.
I read the night he was murdered he bedded two women, the second was a local black politician who was with him till 4AM. His girlfriend dropped in the hotel during that time frame and discovered King missing, that he was unfaithful to her.
The gf returned to King’s hotel at 7AM and started a fight with King. King woke Abernathy to intervene. King smacked or threw the girlfriend. But there was not a claim that he raped her, at least not by Ralph Abernathy.
It is amazing the power that cult-like personalities wield over people, particularly women.
A bit flawed and a genius?
Why would a genius need to continuously plagiarize to earn a college degree and a doctorate in theology?
https://www.amren.com/news/2018/01/martin-luther-king-jr-plagiarism/
Could you speak and inspire millions of people in the way that he did?
He, also, wasn’t a saint. But I think we’d be much worse off without him, here in the US. Who else was there at the time, who managed to gain such a high profile, exhorting people so effectively to peaceful, nonviolent change, as he was doing?
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So of course, Garrow is being blackballed by the mainstream media.
They did know they didn't care, just like you don't now. The only thing new is the "watching a rape tape" and it really doesn't matter. Did you know JFK was a serial philander? Did it matter to you? It didn't to most, neither did Clinton's he was elected twice.
I did a review of it for my channel last year.
Rush ha one in his fake advertisers segments. Like his exclusive 60 second sales.
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