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,
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What did Reagan think of King
Not what Mark Levin and Sean Hannity and Ben Shapiro do I can promise you
And he was a King contemporary not them
People are so stupid about blacks
Please don’t try to equate socialist King with our founders
You’ve been brainwashed
Boy not much brings out the stupids like a King bend the knee thread
That’s because of assorted dimwits on our side who have access to microphones. They all sound more like Hubert Humphrey or Robert Kennedy than they do Reagan or Goldwater.
And they certainly do not sound anything like Jesse Helms. In fact you can bet that they would be first in line to denounce him.
I’d say it represents how sick and degenerate we are as a society now.
And what about King’s pals Hunter Pitts O’Dell and Stanley Levison, and the Highlander Folk School? Even mainstream Democrats like John Kennedy were bothered by those King associations.
Other than the rape incident none of this is new. Anyone who used to read the old Human Events (Reagan’s favorite!) has known about this stuff for decades. It’s all ignored by our current crop of celebrity conservatives, who love being first in line to show their fealty to St MLK the pious.
” IIRC, some government source (FBI?) had let her listen to recordings of MLK”
That would have been Bill Moyers, LBJ’s press secretary, followed by a PBS career. Robert Novak said that Moyers had been letting people listen to tapes from FBI wiretaps.
King’s politics were rapidly moving far left in the last several years of his life. Conservatives trying to claim this individual as one of theirs is delusional.
“I believe it’s well known and documented that his “doctoral thesis” was, ahem, not entirely his own work....”
Neither was his I Have A Dream speech, which MLK “borrowed” from black minister Archibald Carey’s speech at the 1952 Republican convention.
And Harry Truman didn’t like him either
Bill Moyers was letting people listen to tapes of the FBI wiretaps back in the 1960s. Robert Novak was one of many who heard them. None of this is new. The FBI wiretapped King because of his close association with Stanley Levison and Hunter Pitts O’Dell.
Bill Moyers was letting people listen to tapes of the FBI wiretaps back in the 1960s. Robert Novak was one of many who heard them. None of this is new. The FBI wiretapped King because of his close association with Stanley Levison and Hunter Pitts O’Dell.
Yep, even an old style liberal like Harry Truman had more sense than the current crop of gullible conservatives.
Going by that "logic", I have proof that Nancy Pelosi endorsed Trump:
If he watched a woman get raped and did nothing about it then he is a dirtbag. It wouldn’t matter if it was him, Trump or Reagan any man who would allow a woman to be raped is as low as they go. There is no proof so it doesn’t matter at this point.
MLKJr would go into cities and get the people stirred up and then leave
The Militants would take over
Ironically, going their own internal logic, that should mean they should be happy to admit MLK Jr. shunned the GOP & voted RAT in 1960 and encouraged everyone else to do so, since it meant King was supporting the "true conservative" candidate for President that year.
The amount of mental gynamstics these FReepers pull to maintain their delusions is truly astonishing.
I am not shocked about anybody’s infidelity anymore. It is just shocking for me to hear this ‘laughing at a rape’ story. The infidelity wouldn’t take away from him being a peaceful civil rights leader, especially when there were the blank panthers / Malcolm X kind of groups/followers around at the time, but the rape story would imo.
Yes, the source very likely was Bill Moyers. By the early ‘80s, though, that liberal/left hypocrite apparently had amnesia, recasting himself as an unabashed MLKjr fan and saying that he couldn’t remember much about the material dug up on King in the ‘60s.
As Barry Goldwater once said about Moyers, “Every time I see him, I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up.”
I’m shocked!
Shocked I tell ya!
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