Posted on 05/30/2019 10:08:54 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David J. Garrow, an authority on Martin Luther King Jr., offered his explosive story on King to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and reportedly to other U.S. publications before it was published in Great Britain.
The AJC turned down Garrows offer.
The piece, which reveals new sexual allegations against the civil rights icon, was published in Standpoint, a United Kingdom-based cultural and political magazine.It was also offered to The Atlantic and The Washington Post, according to Standpoint.The AJC declined to run the piece because it was based on information that would in some cases be impossible to independently verify, said AJC editor Kevin Riley.
He said the AJC chose to report on Garrows article now that it has been published. AJC editors decided that the piece should be covered as a news story in Kings hometown, distilling it for an Atlanta audience, he said.
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> IN SUM - if “FBI documents” are the basis for accusing MLK, then it should be considered complete bullshit until other sources can be found to confirm. <
I completely agree. Hoover hated communists. And Hoover had it in for MLK because Hoover thought King was a communist. It was a biased investigation from the get-go.
Can you imagine some FBI agent going up to Hoover and saying, “Mr. Director, we have investigated King and found nothing.” That agent would be in the north Alaska field office shoveling snow the very next day.
So yeah, without corroboration this story is, at best, nothing more than speculation.
I agree this is likely smear stuff the FBI had come up with. Alveda King has spoken about how she spent a night in jail because she disobeyed MLK’s orders & broke ranks to help someone struggling with the police. He told her their behavior had to be beyond rebuke. He knew he was under surveillance. I can’t imagine him stupid enough to make silly comments about pussy eating or laughing about a rape under such conditions.
They could have had a voice actor imitating his voice for all I know.
What I do know is that LBJ was slime, and I wouldn’t put anything past him.
Agreed...MLK, for whatever he was, never pretended to be something he was not (such as a law enforcement officer).
The whole thing is an attack on pro-life Alveda King.
Period.
Good thing MLK wasn’t a living republican, then they’d have not only printed it but asked for more salacious details.
> They could have had a voice actor imitating his voice for all I know. <
Interesting observation. As you said, LBJ was slime. He had no moral standards at all. And Hoover was a egotistical pig. So any investigation involving those two would be compromised from the beginning.
tribute that vice pays to virtue.
What “news”?
We’ve known about the coup attempt for nearly three years now. It’s not really news anymore. The world is going to keep spinning.
Now that blacks are freeing themselves from the liberal plantation it is time for the left to finish destroying any righteous legacy left in black culture. If blacks wont submit to the Democratic Party line then its time to completely marginalize them.
While that is possible..too much other information out there from his own people that this is basically true.
Only thing in question is the rape. HOWEVER, as people here have pointed out his behavior was well known in certain circles.
And this rape story fits in with the way he acted behind the scenes..like beating up girlfriends, prostitutes, etc.
MLK was a Christian and he compared his movement to the Exodus. Like Moses, he was leading his people to the Promised Land, ie, America is the Promised Land where equality, freedom, opportunity, justice and security from tyranny (Bill of Rights) are all gifts from God and ALL Americans have an equal right to share in those gifts.
The MLK/JFK/LBJ generation of democrats were very proud of this Judeo-Christian movement and their accomplishments.
Not so much in the current generation of democrats, They hate God. They hate Moses, they hate the Exodus, they hate the 10 commandments, they hate the bible, they hate Jesus, they hate Christians and Jews. Most of all, they hate the fact that America was founded on and our system of government, laws, freedom, equality and justice, private property and free-markets, one-man/one-woman family and our moral society are all based on Judeo-Christian foundations and principles.
The current crop of America-hating democrats will stop at nothing in their jihad to destroy all references to God or our Judeo-Christian history and all our historical heroes and that includes destroying the Declaration, the Constitution and all Judeo-Christian beliefs and principles.
Easy pickings first was to destroy and takedown all Confederate statues and memorabilia. And that includes Jefferson and other slave-holding founders, even George Washington.
Now they’ll bring down MLK and other black Christian leaders.
Even FDR. He was a Christian who often prayed on the radio for our country and our sons going into harm’s way.
It’s what Marxists do. They’ll tear down all our heroes and historical icons, burn all the books and rewrite history (air brushing out God, of course).
Reporters got their hands out in these days of Fake News. Milk that Pulitzer Prize for all it’s worth.
Martin is not here to defend himself. So this is nothing more than sensationalizing unverified scandal schemes, no different than circulating two Russian whores urinated on a future President.
And why now? Because this sh*t sells and it steers the news cycle away from the pending arrest of Cardinal Comey.
One thing I heard years ago is that J. Edgar used to curry favor with LBJ by coming over to the White House with edited "Best Excerpts" tapes of MLK's sex romps, and the two would listen together and ROTFL.
I’m having a lot of trouble with that rape story. Supposedly, FBI agents were in the next room recording when the rape happened.
Why were they recording? To get something on King, of course. So why didn’t they burst into the room - cameras at the ready - and arrest King? That would have destroyed him.
And please remember that this Garrow guy is reporting this based only on FBI summaries. Those agents could have written any old thing they wanted to. Garrow has not heard the tapes themselves, as they are sealed.
Oh, and one more thing. Garrow is an author. His goal is to sell books. So without solid corroboration, I am very skeptical of anything he says.
Eight years of a disastrous Affirmative Action POTUS signaled the end of that dream.
A friend of 50 years or so who is a retired Ph.d theologian and university professor tells me that he has known for many years that Boston University found that MLK had plagiarized his dissertation and revoked his doctoral degree, but replaced it with an “honorary” doctorate to save face both for him and for the university.Now, this friend of mine still loves MLK for what he did, although he was not honest in his academic work.
Right. As if they hold back anti-Trump stories that are "impossible to independently verify".
He gave a nice polite speech, but when he sat down for the meal with us, he spoke a bit more "off the cuff" so to speak. It was clear from the conversation that he cared little for Jesse Jackson and admired MLK. However, he told us, MLK had a weakness for women and a need to get laid as pervasive as JFK's. Because he was quite famous, he had little need to solicit opportunities. Unlike JFK, Dr. Abernathy was unable to protect him from the rumors floating about at the time because MLK wouldn't show much discretion.
He said that those who ran in MLK's circle were totally unprepared for his assassination in the way it happened because they always felt it would be an angry husband or boyfriend gone berserk.
You are correct. MLK was probably all the things you think in these tapes, however he was non-violent and wanted integration and race made irrelevant. The left is enthralled with identity politics and the race card is and continues to be used by them for their violence and segregation. MLK is quoted by conservatives especially his content of character speech. This concept has to be eliminated and if that means trashing MLK so be it. 2020 is going to see new levels of race baiting and segregation. Imagine that the Democrats supporting segregation——again. It’s going to get really ugly the next 16 months.
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