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 find categorizing serious grievances as ‘less than perfect’ ‘a lil flawed’ and ‘not a saint’ completely absurd and disgusting when coming from a conservative forum. It is the talk of the Pussy-hat lib/progressive women’s rally types.
1. Rounding up church ladies for sex and discussing who is destined for lesbian acts, sodomy, bj, or regular sex is the talk of a pimp or the director of pornography.
2. Watching and coaching a woman being raped is a criminal offense.
3. Coercing unwilling women to perform ‘un-natural acts’ is sexual assault.
4. Slapping or tossing a women across the room is simple assault.
5. Plagiarizing one’s way through college, seminarian school and graduate school is academic theft and grounds for expulsion.
6. Plagiarizing Baptist sermons, speeches and book material outside of school is punishable by copyright laws as intellectual theft.
7. Using the church pulpit as a hunting ground for scouting fresh orgy material is in the realm of Satan.
Well, he’s the one who rose to the top.
I don’t know, Yaelle. He may have been unfaithful, a womanizer; but he was hated and feared by several factions - some of them pretty vicious themselves - and it’s hard to know whether to believe these more extreme accusations.
Normies still consider him a heroic figure in the Civil Rights Movement, and don't realize he's cut from the same mold of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, i.e. a complete charlatan that uses the name of Christ as a financial and/or political wedge.
He didn't believe in the Triune God, rejected the Virgin Birth, and even the deity of Christ.
The only difference is that MLK Jr. is lionized by the state and its courtiers, whereas most people-even liberals-acknowledge that Sharpton and Jackson are more or less hucksters.
It's unfortunate, but much of the Church has been taken over by wolves in sheep's clothing.
Not just the black church, but the broader Church, which is infected with prosperity preachers, "woke" political activists disguised as pastors, charismatic charlatans, theives and charlatans of every stripe.
My pastor calls this the Laodicean Age.
I had heard these rumors maybe twenty years ago. I have vague recollection of a woman making accusations (she might have had a book written back then?).
That, and the little thing about him “borrowing” and taking credit for that clarion call speech.
About a decade before King a different black preacher made that speech to the 1952 Republican National Convention. Even the NPR crowd knows it; somehow it seems that freepers are among the last to know:
I don’t disagree with your points.
I was just saying that I feel personally that if it was only that King had been unfaithful, you know, one woman, I’d feel like overlooking it as his business with his wife and Gd and still think his good works made up for it.
We are in agreement. No one expects perfection and we all knew he had affairs.
He accomplished a lot in a short period of time. However, this is beyond the pale.
Now we know why so many Senators refused to vote in favor of the MLK Holiday for so very long. Capitol Hill knew most of what had gone down.
They should have declared a ‘Civil Rights Day’ to represent all, not just him.
In the fall of 1963, then-Governor Meldrim Thompson of New Hampshire wrote to President Ronald Reagan, urging him to veto any bill creating a national holiday for King. Reagan responded, “I have the reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on an image, not reality. Indeed, to them, the perception is reality.”
The image and perception of King is of a man who opposed affirmative action, believing in equality of opportunity, and not government quotas. And all through non-violence.
Although it should be admitted that King was a man of great courage, exceptional organizational skills, and a powerful orator, a review of his life reveals that the image Americans now have of him is not reality.
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