Calling BS. Hoover went out of his way to destroy MLK. It would have been too easy to let that out and ruin him.
He did release the gist of the tapes by way of a leak.
Yep, MLK wasn’t perfect and the affairs element is true- but this seems like Deep State trickery.
MLK was always a Republican until he was blackmailed by the Kennedy’s.
This is being circulated by —
David J. Garrow (born May 11, 1953 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American historian and author.He wrote the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
I don't think MLK fell neatly into either political camp, but he was NOT a communist. And despite the extreme political correctness touted by the LEFT today often in his name -- I still don't understand the forces that be who are desperate to tarnish King's name. He was a great American.
ANd in terms of his personal conduct...That's between him and God at this point...And need we reminding that King David from the Old Testament was no better.
Calling BS.
As the FBI is hopefully approaching the witness stand, there are many reasons to discredit ANY testimony and stir up the low information voters.
That said, I think they finally corrected the plaque under the new made in China MLK statue?
Will it be removed?
It looks the historian has had a change of heart or maybe some $$$,$$$ came his way. It’s probably all very true, but why now.
And the leaker /author/historian could have kept his mouth shut and just wrote a salacious book with these details.
His last book on MLK, Jr had great reviews and he is celebrated as a heavily footnoted and well sourced, according to those who have read “Bearing the Cross”
5.0 out of 5 starsHistorical Literary Saga
(2016) Never before in my life have I read such an outstanding recount of the civil rights movement in America as I have in the pages of David Garrow’s “Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference “. Garrow doesn’t attempt to make Dr. King into a civil rights “super hero”. Instead, he paints the portrait of a leader who was so committed to championing the causes of the Afro-American.
Garrow brilliantly relates the strengths and weaknesses of MLK. I was left with a much stronger, positive image of Dr. King, while understanding that he was far from being a saintly man, despite his being an ordained preacher. Based on Garrow’s writing, I am left with several deep impressions of Dr. King:
1. He sincerely was dedicated to the concept of nonviolent protest against racial discrimination, segregation, voting rights, civil rights, poverty, and the Vietnam War.
2. King worked himself to the point of illness and total exhaustion to support the causes he believed in.
3. He was a man with a huge heart, willing to listen to those who opposed and attacked him, and giving of his time and energy to those in need of his spiritual support.
4. King understood that the SCLC needed his leadership, but was an ineffective administrator whose unwillingness to sever ties with certain people weakened the organization financially and other non-spiritual matters.
Garrow devotes considerable attention to FBI Directot J.Edgar Hoover. He discusses the wiretaps of Dr. King’s personal and professional phone lines. He writes about his obsession with MLK’s extra-marital affairs. Garrow states that the FBI seemed more interested in Dr. King’s travels than in the constant threat of physical violence directed at Dr. King and the SCLC marchers and demonstrators.
From Ralph Abernathy’s book. He and MLK spent the night with 2 white hookers in their hotel room the night before he was shot.
Agreed.
What do you call it when your enemy puts out inflammatory information with the hopes that you will “run with it” and self destruct?
Yes - Hoover was corrupt, and now there is a long cancerous thread that has metastasized in the FBI body from that time to this.
Hoover illegally tapped politicians, and when FDR told him to stop, Hoover showed him transcripts of his political enemies. Then FDR told him to keep spying, without warrants. Corruption breeds corruption! (”Enemies, A History of the FBI” Tim Weiner)
The FBI tried to take down a President with lies in 2016 - what would Hoover have done against a Black minister in the 1960’s?
What was once believed to be an immaculate institution has now proven itself to be an enemy of American democracy. The FBI needs to account for what happened in this Russian hoax, and this enormous threat to remove a legally elected President.
True. Hoover would have done it , but this story can now make it easy for the Left to abandon King and his awkward content of your character belief. They can now, in their fevered brains, consider him part of the white patriarchy.
I don’t believe it. Knowing what we now know about the alphabets, they are corrupt as the day is long. The government was attempting to destroy Dr.King just as they have many others since.
I’m with you on this. I suspect it’s a trap to put President Trump against King’s family, and in effect against African-Americans.