According to Garrow, King engaged in orgies, solicited prostitutes, and "looked on and laughed" as a rape took place before his very eyes.
Posted on 06/17/2019 8:07:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This quote got me thinking. How will history judge Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King, a recent essay published by widely respected historian David Garrow in Standpoint, a widely respected British magazine, sparked fierce debate among historians. Within the press, however, Garrow’s essay was met with a reaction somewhere between ambivalence and outright refutation.
Remember, this is David Garrow, author of King’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. This is an author of real merit.
According to Garrow, King engaged in orgies, solicited prostitutes, and "looked on and laughed" as a rape took place before his very eyes.
Again, this report comes from a senior advisor to Eyes on the Prize, an award-winning series documenting the Civil Rights movement. Garrow is very much a liberal's liberal. He’s certainly no friend of the right, and he’s certainly no enemy of King's. In fact, Garrow is, in many ways, a former idolator.
The allegations against Dr. King are as shocking as they are unfathomable. How could this man, an activist and orator like no other, act in such a monstrous manner? In King’s famous “I have a dream” speech, the self-professed pacifist eloquently expressed the hope that someday his children would be able to live in a nation “where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Well, Dr. King, your wish has been granted,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Go to your public library and try to find out if they have the book authored by Michael Eric Dyson’s titled, “I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr (2000)”.
Dyson, who once referred to King as “arguably, the greatest American ever produced on our native soil,” documents the activist’s sexual exploits. King was a serial womanizer, sleeping with dozens of women behind his wife’s back.
Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown University, also writes about King’s penchant for plagiarism. For decades, King’s critics claimed that much of the civil rights leader’s academic writings were plagiarized. Dyson tells us, in no uncertain terms, that King regularly engaged in acts of intellectual piracy.
I’m sure he had carte Blanche with his wife to fool around. Same as the Clintons.
If accurate/true, he’s far, far, far worse than what Cosby did.
Will they demand all the streets/holiday named after him be taken down/gotten rid of?
As new facts are revealed, one can always re-evaluate one’s position.
Meh - same as saying Joan of Arc was a hooker.
Ya just can’t trash martyred saints.
Too many people still making a dime from their death.....sad to say.
The allegations against Dr. King are as shocking as they are unfathomable.”
Strikes one and two right there
In a taped conversation between Jackie Kennedy & Arthur Schlesinger in 1964, Jackie accurately described MLKjr as a “phony” and “terrible man.” IIRC, some government source (FBI?) had let her listen to recordings of MLK mocking JFK’s death & funeral, as well as MLK engaged in his other deplorable behavior.
The real MLKjr, the “phony” and “terrible man,” has been lost to history. No one cares. He’s been replaced by a fictional MLKjr who was a saintly man, martyred for the cause of civil rights.
Men can do great things and still be horn dogs. Most of the Founders, for example.
Unlike today’s alleged civil rights leaders I believe he truly tried to heal the racial divide in the US. He probably did commit some sinful acts unlike our pure as the driven snow political leaders and lame street media gurus.
I believe it’s well known and documented that his “doctoral thesis” was, ahem, not entirely his own work....
Cheering on a rape taking place in front of you does not qualify as merely being a “horn dog”.
That story sure got shut down quickly! No one’s talking about it right now. Some were saying they couldn’t publish ‘unverified reports’. That never stopped them before.
The article was digested in the news cycle quicker than a bad Taco Bell dinner. Maybe someone will be brave enough to bring it up live on the air, where it cannot be bleeped out.
They won’t ever get invited back to that show.
I dare someone to make a Movie of the Week about this.
If they even still produce ‘movies of the week’ at all.
They would be performing a public service by ripping the veil off the image.
And the Cosbys.
This info goes back to shortly after JFK was killed.
Why are they releasing it now?
To “normalize” the sick behavior of Biden and other rat POTUS candidates!
While its true that its become taboo to trash MLK Jr. in public, that doesn't mean our side has to made up fictional "facts" about him and pretend he was some kind of Tea Party type conservative.
Hopefully that nonsense will stop now. Conservatives that do that kind of stuff discredit the rest of us.
I had never heard of that allegation and to be revealed only now 50 years or so later, seems very odd. Wouldn’t the victim have spoken out at some point? I doubt many men or women were saints, so the womanizing rumor is one thing, even though it’s gossip at this point. But an accusation like being present at a rape or the rape itself would need some sort of conviction to be considered true in the U.S. Maybe not in some countries where you are guilty until proven innocent. I don’t like it. It’s wrong. Especially after the accused is dead.
> Unlike today’s alleged civil rights leaders I believe he truly tried to heal the racial divide in the US. <
I agree. King was the right man at the right time. In that respect, the country was fortunate that there was a Martin Luther King. Any alternative would have been worse.
As to Garrow’s claims, I dunno. Evidently, Garrow based his claims on written FBI summaries of certain tapes. Given that the FBI hated King, I don’t know how unbiased those summaries would be.
I am also saddened that - for good or for bad reasons - black kids might be losing a role model over this. Every young person needs a role model. And no role model is perfect.
As a kid, my parents gave me a book about Thomas Jefferson. He was a good role model for me. But I suppose he attended slave auctions. And I suppose slaves were abused on his property.
Should graphic descriptions of slave auctions - and slave abuse - have been included in my book about Jefferson? Well, the truth is the truth. But I don’t see how that would have done any good, for me or for the country.
Same goes for MLK.
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