Martin Luther King was no prophet of unity. He was a radical

The Guardian ^ | 21 Jan 2019 | Bhaskar Sunkara

[NobleFree]

[...] The Disneyified version of Dr King begins and ends with his role as a civil rights leader, who summoned Christian teachings, as well as Gandhian tactics, and told us of his dream that “one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’”

[...] Martin Luther King Jr was a part of a much wider movement, standing alongside socialists such as Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and A Philip Randolph in not just attempting to dismantle the Jim Crow system, but replacing it with an egalitarian social democracy. [...] As he put it in 1967: “We aren’t merely struggling to integrate a lunch counter now. We’re struggling to get some money to be able to buy a hamburger or a steak when we get to the counter.” [...]

[nicollo]

50% of his PhD thesis was plagiarized and he regularly cheated on his wife and used prostitutes, many of whom he beat up.

I know a woman who was having an affair with one of MLK's buddies at the time. She was from Harlem, pretty, young, and smart, and helped re-write the "Dream" speech the night before. She says he was a "country bumpkin," as in dumb as a rock.

I never asked her about the prostitutes... lol