Posted on 01/18/2010 12:51:42 AM PST by Nextrush
I have great sorrow when I consider the secret story of Martin Luther King's life.
Sexual addiction is a good description of it and I think this kind of "sickness" is something we don't want to face or talk about.
Tiger Woods appears to be facing his addiction right now and I wish him well.
As for Dr. King, his problem seems to be buried in a sea of idolization and denial.
There are too many cheerleaders (including conservatives) who want to join the praise and accolades.
As for me, I have to stand back and ask questions.
The questions go beyond this to the social and political aspects of MLK's life, but for this moment I choose to take note of the lust-sex addiction of Dr. King and ask how it can be reconciled to a national holiday and greatness.
When Dr. Martin Luther King and King Solomon met in glory, it surely was with a nod and a wink....
As to the question of "how", one way is by making the same asservations of George Washington, for one. The evidence for this is oblique, but it is enough to get one's attention. What is the true story there? I myself wonder.
I’m not sure about that, but Taylor Branch uses that “wink and nod” concept to describe how Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young and other associates of Dr. King reacted to his sex habit.
There is a person’s work, and then there is the person. I think God has a lot of fun having obviously imperfect people to great works - it serves as an extremely efficient smack-down to moralists who would presume to judge the value of someone’s soul. In my experience, humility is taught in two methods - as a warning, and then if not heeded, as a demonstration. I believe Jesus, amongst many others throughout history, beseeched people to heed the first method, and thereby avoid the second. I believe lack of compassion is a sure sign the second method is eventually going to be required.
OK, a bad joke. Both would be cleansed saints at that point and no nodding or winking would actually happen. But King and Solomon could well say to each other “I know, that’s what happened when we thought with the wrong head.”
You might remember all the hullabaloo over Thomas Jefferson’s liasion with a slave and how it was made into a TV movie.
Is there any chance that this aspect of Martin Luther King’s life will ever be memorialized by the entertainment industry?
It would be a cold day in you know where for George Clooney and such to get behind such a project.
Beyond what you have said already, I have always made the following statements to myself and asked the following question of myself:
01. ) Every man and woman who has ever served in the U.S. military, both dead and survivors of wars, get one day per year, including all of the Medal of Honor winners.
02. ) All presidents, ( supposedly combined Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthday ) get one holiday.
Why does a black who was a hardcore conscientious objector, reference 01. ) above, and who never held any elective office, reference 02. ) above, get his own day?
Very tacky. This is about on par with saying Grant’s Tomb and the portrait on the Fifty Dollar Bill are to celebrate an alcoholic guy with bad cigar breath.
Wow, this is the first time I heard of this. What a pity! There are numerous other names which could be added to the list such as Michael Jackson, and Elvis Presley. The only one who ever lived a sinless life - Jesus Christ - is ridiculed.
Such a topsy, turvy world we live in where good is called evil, and evil - good.
I see a new federal holiday on the horizon - - December 30th.
Tiger Woods day!
Because King memorialized something that was worth memorializing in his (plagiarized but none the less true) “I Have A Dream” speech. If black communities would listen more to that and less to sex-and-violence rap today, they would go much further. For that reason I, a honky, say that it’s better that King have a day than not to have one.
We still have Christmas....
I like that response because it helps me to understand.
The media today treats sexual misconduct in general with open discussion and or disparagement especially if it involves a conservative or religious figure.
It seems to me that MLK hasn’t gotten his day in the sunshine on this conduct because of media bias and the desire of many to not talk about this kind of stuff.
The FBI apparently told its buddies in the media-government that MLK did like white women (just like Tiger) for his sexual encounters as well.
Because in 1983 a whole lot of politicians wanted to (surprise, surprise) pander to blacks, and so they passed this law. Enough time had gone by and King's legend had grown to where it seemed a benign enough gesture. The tragic assassination was, of course, the deal closer.
...Now known as "the holiday season".
At least his public persona (his sex mania notwithstanding) had some class. I could think of far worse figures to use for such “pandering.”
Except for that funny old Santa Claus who insists on going “Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas.” I guess he’s the only one still allowed to do so :-)
Dr. Martin Luther King “...did not want to be a saint or viewed as a saint. He was just a human being, capable of becoming and producing and leading his people out of the wilderness of segregation into the promised land...”
And Obama is reversing every bit of Kings work.
Both Kennedy’s and King were elevated to godlike status by the circumstances of their deaths.
In life, they were complex and controversial figures, but in death they achieved an unreal status.
A status as unreal as the double life sexual fantasy world all three inhabited.
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