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This might be the single best MLKJ Day post I've ever seen in my life. Wait for it... FBI @FBI · Follow This #MLKDay, the #FBI honors one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights movement and reaffirms its commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of fairness and equal justice for all. Readers added context The FBI engaged in surveillance of King, attempted to discredit him, and used manipulation tactics to influence him to stop organizing. King’s family believe the FBI was responsible for his death. cbsnews.com/news/mlks-fami… npr.org/2021/01/18/956… npr.org/2021/01/18/956… Context is written by people who use X, and appears...

Newly-revealed FBI documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who ‘laughed’ as a forcible rape took place. [The]documents reveal the full extent of the FBI’s surveillance of the civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King... They expose in graphic detail the FBI’s intense focus on King’s extensive extramarital sexual relationships with dozens of women, ..... The FBI’s tape recording of that criminal assault [King witnessed] exists today, resting under court seal in a National Archives vault. [ 2027]~snip~.... when they are made fully available a painful historical reckoning concerning King’s personal conduct seems inevitable. ...“King, who...

The Kennedy Administration engaged in an unforgivable act of government intrusion when it wiretapped Dr. Martin Luther King. That view is baked into the history books, and Jimmy Carter was just reprising this theme in his eulogy to Coretta Scott King. But the truth is that the famous civil rights leader brought those wiretaps on himself. This is not an untold story, as much as it is a forgotten one. The Cold War was in full swing in late 1963 when Bobby Kennedy authorized the first King wiretap. On JFK's watch, Khrushchev had put up the Berlin Wall and had...