Martin Luther King was a serial adulterer, a plagiarist, and an associate of Communists. Of course, he also demonstated great personal courage. But is astonishing that we are no longer permitted to talk about his undoubted flaws.
Why don’t we hear these comments from Paul these days?
If he believes them and they are true, why doesn’t Paul use them in a speech?
It seems to me that Paul has already disavowed the comments about MLK, which puts Paul supporters in an awkward position...
Paul’s supposedly a good stand-up guy and he didn’t say anything wrong, yet he won’t stand-up and say the same thing today...
King’s personal flaws, while bad, are not important in the scheme of things. What is important is that, largely thanks to King, the civil rights movement was not not exploited by communists who wanted things to devolve into a black vs. white race war that would have destroyed America. Blacks (and all of us) have been short-changed by false leaders like Jessee Jackson, but that is not really Dr. King’s fault. It is a pity that M.L.K. evidently never read Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom.”