That’s not to say I won’t call out MLK for doing so. Like I said, he had very many personal failings. But guess what? I’m not going to outright demonize him by claiming he was a communist infiltrator or anything like that.
By “doing so”, I mean plagiarizing works and screwing around.
One of King’s most distinguished biographers, Taylor Branch, revealed how
— on King’s trip to Norway to collect the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize — members of his entourage were found running after naked or near-naked prostitutes in the Oslo hotel where they were staying. Only a desperate appeal to hotel security saved them from being thrown out.
Branch also detailed how FBI agents bugged King’s hotel room in Washington in January 1964 and recorded him in adulterous full flow. ‘I’m f*****g for God! I’m not a negro tonight!’ he could be heard shouting.