[rdb3]

And King wasn't worried about that?

He didn't appear to be.

He knew he was a gay homosexual with communist ties but he was also talented.

"Communist ties?" No, try flaming (no pun intended) commie.

It doesn't mean King himself was a commie.

Maybe, maybe not. But, birds of a feather...

[Burkeman1]

Look. I am no King defender. I think the black political leaders coming up in Chicago and Boston and New York all hated King. Blacks were about to inherit the patronage channels of city halls all over the North when MLK stepped in. He ruined the game. Blacks would have controlled every Northern major city by 1980 if not for the "Great Society" that took patronage out of the hands of local black political leaders.