The left now has a MeToo problem with Martin Luther King. Jr

[mystery-ak]

May 27, 2019
The left now has a MeToo problem with Martin Luther King. Jr.
By Monica Showalter

The left, which has been so eager to topple statues of Confederate generals, slave-owning founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, even Kate Smith who sang objectionable racist songs early in her career, now has a Martin Luther King, Jr. problem.

According to the Daily Mail:

    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.

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[jmyrlefuller]

Again the notoriously corrupt J. Edgar Hoover is taken at face value.

[TomSea]

We already knew he was allegedly a philanderer. I file this as "too late to do anything about it"... you want to do something, it should have been done 15, 25 years ago before we started naming schools after him and having a holiday about him.

As said, we honor them for the good they did, not for lifestyle, not on their human frailties.

[dfwgator]

Again the notoriously corrupt J. Edgar Hoover is taken at face value.

As well as that snake, LBJ.

[dfwgator]

I will say, the day will come very soon, will the Left will call MLK an "Uncle Tom" and it will be conservatives who will stand up for MLK's legacy.

Because once people start focusing on what MLK talked about, especially that judging by character stuff,  it more and more is out of line with modern Leftist Orthodoxy.

[sneakypete]

I will say, the day will come very soon, will the Left will call MLK an "Uncle Tom" and it will be conservatives who will stand up for MLK's legacy.

Because once people start focusing on what MLK talked about, especially that judging by character stuff,  it more and more is out of line with modern Leftist Orthodoxy.

@dfwgator

I was temped to point out one irony,when another irony struck me.

Have a hard time picturing the bible-thumping branch of alleged conservatism defending his drunken beatings of white whores,or any of the many other crimes he committed.