I am sure many have heard about these by now unless they only follow the main stream media. My thoughts are that many of our heroes werent saints and the tearing down of statues and renaming streets is silly at this point. Nobody is perfect although these allegations are depressing.
My dad told me of the deeds of Michael King when I was fifteen. In this new climate of gender and sexual fluidity I imagine his actions will be more openly accepted. The real question is why the fbi recorded as much as they did? But moral of the story there are no such thing as heroes
I had to google it myself. I suppose this is what he is referring to: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bu...ape-passed-by-media-author-says-scared-2019-5 “The FBI was monitoring King in the 1960s with the hope of discrediting him with gossip leaked to the media.” Given the FBI’s motivation, who’s to say these allegations/rumors weren’t just fabricated with the express purpose of hurting him? Are FBI “data dumps” supposed to be verified intel?
Thanks. I suspected that those would be the "revelations" he was talking about. To be fair, he might not be aware that it's extremely old news. I've know about the "revelations" for at least 30 years, back when they were actual revelations. Business Insider has a tendency to post old news like it's "new news." So does The National Interest. I've checked on a story linked to them from elsewhere before, more than once, only to discover that it's recycled "news" from one or two years before, and that they simply changed a word or two. I consider that extremely "cheap" journalism, designed for the headline in order to get clicks. "Click-bait," in other words. It's a problem that's increasing as "news" websites try to engender traffic and differentiate themselves from several other "publications." What a world we have today. The unaware are being taken for a ride and don't know it. It's happened to me before.
I'm surprised that quite a few Americans don't know that MLK was under constant FBI surveillance and Hoover wanted nothing more than to see his downfall. The man has been dead for how long and this just now comes out? Sounds like one of Hoover's smear attacks.
Though he was a Baptist Priest , he didn't believe in virgin birth, Trinity or God's son proclamation ,so it doesn't come as a surprise that many were diligantly trying to frame his legacy as the fake prophet sort of thing.
Dr. Martin Luther King cheated on his wife numerous times and used his power and position to have sex with women. I would not be shocked if he knew or watched a friend take advantage of a woman. He wasn’t a choirboy. However none of that changes what he did for race and human relations in the USA and to a lesser extent around the world. He is still a hero for his contributions. The same goes for a number of others like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson and Malcolm X. I don’t think people appreciate that MLK lived decades worries he would be killed by his own government, a racist, someone from The Nation of Islam or someone mentally ill. Hoover hated King because he was black and wielded power outside the government structure. He was viewed as a socialist and fired up black and white insurgents. We need to stop looking at historical figures as heroes and look at and appreciate them for how they changed the world. Very very few historical figures are Mister Rogers. The monuments of MLK should remain... so should those of other figures of historical importance.
I’m curious about one thing.... was it legal for the fbi to spy and record private citizen at the time? If not, was any one held accountable?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article with an interview of Garrow: https://www.post-gazette.com/local/...Ok6Dygp00-oDbRKq1UNohX2qGfdLWvPXwuWTGoGj3oLHI
As an aside, Martin Luther, MLK's namesake, was kind of a weird dude, too. He had a bizarre obsession with fart jokes and s**ting on things. He used to wipe his ass with his opponents' pamphlets and send them back to them, for instance, and a bunch of his writings read like a religious sequel to "two girls, one cup".
