I am an avid reader and read about this decades ago. He was a “do as I say, not as I do” man. I never put him on a pedestal like some did and do. No one is perfect.
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.