Thanks. I can almost excuse him because of racism and the way the communists used that wedge to work for power. Doubt he would have changed had he lived to see Pol Pot. None of the other lefties did which to me is unfathomable.
MLK had been making soft on Communism speeches since the early 1950s, when Uncle Joe Stalin was still running the show in the USSR. I once found some juicy quotes from those speeches at a website run by the King foundation, but it’s hard to pull quotes from that site.
John Kennedy and his attorney general brother Robert approved of the FBI wiretapping King, in part because of two associates that King refused to part with. They were Hunter Pitts O’Dell and Stanley Levison, both members of the Communist Party:
“The Cold War was in full swing in late 1963 when Bobby Kennedy authorized the first King wiretap. On JFK’s watch, Khrushchev had put up the Berlin Wall and had almost provoked a nuclear exchange by introducing atomic-armed missiles into Cuba. “Wars of National Liberation” were being fully stoked by the shoe-pounder in the Kremlin. Yet King, already a powerful civil rights figure, had surrounded himself with several radical advisers, including at least two long-time members of the Communist Party.
Stanley Levison was one of them. He may have been, as King’s friendly biographer, David Garrow sometimes suggests, King’s most trusted adviser from 1956 until the civil rights leader’s death in 1968. Levison, an important CP member, was also responsible for placing on the board of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference Hunter Pitts (Jack) O’Dell, who became a member of the national committee of the U.S. Communist Party in 1959. These were the indisputable facts that eventually impelled the Kennedy Administration to wiretap King.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=12701