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When do we have to start tearing down the MLK statues?

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https://blackchristiannews.com/2019/05/biographer-david-garrow-claims-fbi-has-tapes-alleging-martin-luther-king-jr-watched-and-laughed-as-pastor-raped-church-member-and-had-over-40-adulterous-affairs/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7071713/FBI-tapes-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-40-affairs-laughed-friend-raped-parishioner.html

Secret FBI tapes that accuse Martin Luther King Jr of having extramarital affairs with '40 to 45 women' and even claim he 'looked on and laughed' as a pastor friend raped a parishioner exist, an author has claimed. 

The civil rights hero was also heard allegedly joking he was the founder of the 'International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters' on an agency recording that was obtained by bugging his room, according to the sensational claims made by biographer David Garrow - a Pulitzer prize-winning author and biographer of MLK. 

Writing in British magazine Standpoint, Garrow says that the shocking files could lead to a 'painful historical reckoning' for the man who is celebrated across the world for his campaign against racial injustice. 

Along with many US civil rights figures, King was subject to an FBI campaign of surveillance ordered by Director J Edgar Hoover in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party. 

The FBI surveillance tapes detailing his indiscretions are being held in a vault at the U.S. National Archives and are not due for release until 2027.

But David Garrow, a biographer of King who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1987 book Bearing the Cross about the Baptist minister, has unearthed the FBI summaries of the various incidents.

In an article to be published in Standpoint, Garrow tells how the FBI planted transmitters in two lamps in hotel rooms booked by King in January 1964, according to The Sunday Times.

FBI director J Edgar Hoover ordered the surveillance of King in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party.

The intelligence service carried out surveillance on a number of civil rights figures and suspected communists and they had an interest in smearing their reputation. 

The recording from the Willard Hotel near the White House shows how King was accompanied his friend Logan Kearse, the pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist church who died in 1991, along with several female parishioners of his church.

In King's hotel room, the files claim they then 'discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts'.

The FBI document says: 'When one of the women protested that she did not approve, the Baptist minister immediately and forcefully raped her' as King watched.

He is alleged to have 'looked on, laugh and offered advice' during the encounter. 

FBI agents were in the room next door but did not intervene. 

The following day, King and a dozen others allegedly participated in a 'sex orgy' engaging in 'acts of degeneracy and depravity'.

When one woman showed reluctance, King was allegedly heard saying that performing the act 'would help your soul'.

Senior FBI officials later sent King a copy of the incriminating tape and called him an 'evil abnormal beast' and his sexual exploits would be 'on record for all time'.

The letter also suggested he should commit suicide before his wrongs were revealed to the world.

King's philandering has long been suspected, however Garrow, who spent several months digging through the archive material, said he had no idea of the scale or the ugliness of it and his apparent indifference to rape until he saw the files.

He said: 'It poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible.'

 

So in today's "MeToo" environment, when do we start tearing down the statues of one of greatest civil rights icons?

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13 hours ago, gonzoron said:

JC didn't have to explain an attempted slam while being unable to spell either. Try again Shooter.

Grow up, Nancy.  Your righteous indignation is showing.

 

 

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9 minutes ago, swordfish said:

FWIW - SF had to google TRD........Thinking maybe it was an odd reference to rear excrement, found it to be Toyota Racing Development.....

Just in case - TDS = Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It’s not derangement if it’s the truth. Trump has several pending sexual assault lawsuits, MLK does not.

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43 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

It’s not derangement if it’s the truth. Trump has several pending sexual assault lawsuits, MLK does not.

More TDS.  Practically everything you type has to tie back to Mr. Trump, no matter how tenuous. 

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Not much different than recent John Wayne revelations. Probably important in a historical sense. But in all likelihood, most people involved are gone. So justice can't be a motive. What is it we hope to gain by publicizing such stuff. We know MLK is certainly not around to defend himself against such allegations. Should these revelations taint a person's legacy and what work they accomplished during their lives? I don't know. But I do know this is another racially charged issue that could potentially keep FB going for a month or so with memes. No different than, Lee, McCain, or Wayne, why do we feel the need to pee on these men's grave? Why don't we move forward and leave the past in the past? 

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The MLK Story No One Wanted To Read: https://spectator.org/the-mlk-story-no-one-wanted-to-read/

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The manner in which the government assembled the derogatory information on King — gathered with the approval of Democratic officials, including Attorney General Robert Kennedy, all feigning support for the civil rights leader — sickens in a literal sense. Using King’s association with various figures involved with the Communist Party, the FBI bugged hotel rooms and surveilled King vigorously. Yet, the bureau focused not on these ties — Garrow notes the bureau’s disinterest in payments from Stanley Levison to King at the same time Levison helped bankroll the Communist Party — but instead fixated on the preacher’s sexual pursuits behind closed doors. In this, the FBI more resembled TMZ than a law-enforcement agency. Garrow insists that, however morally corrupt the bureau’s activities, they passed muster legally.

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But the motives that compel crime fighters to become peeping toms indicate a bias that could certainly lead to exaggerating events. J. Edgar Hoover, who publicly called King a “notorious liar,” presumably did not seek information rebutting that characterization. Possibly agents stretched the truth to please the boss. It seems implausible that they fabricated everything out of whole cloth.

If King’s reputation suffers, more so do his FBI antagonists’. They did him dirty. Their zeal to sully him affirms his cause. Racism ran so deep among the most powerful people in the American government that they devoted an exorbitant amount of money and substantial manpower resources to bring down the leader of the civil rights movement with tactics that could only earn the designation “criminal” if undertaken by citizens not employed by the Justice Department. One disturbing letter sent to King from the FBI seems to attempt to blackmail him into suicide. And if King sat by while a “forcible rape” took place in front of him, what does it say about the law enforcement officers who sat idly by in a nearby room? Why did they not kick down the door? Because they acted as watchers and not watchmen. Our government is creepy.

The release of the audio and transcripts in 2027 contradicts or confirms the FBI summaries. One imagines that, for some, hearing does not mean believing, and for others, hearing little that meshes with the description does not alter their assessment. When narratives clash with facts, facts rarely win.

 

 

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