The MLK tapes: Secret FBI recordings accuse Martin Luther King Jr of watching and laughing as a past

[mrclose]

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Maybe time to remove all those street names and pull down the statue on the DC mall?

[Fishrrman]

verga wonders:
"Why do we take such inordinate pleasure in tearing down people that we once held in such high regard?"

"A truth that's told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you can unvent."
- William Blake

[corbe]

 Don't remove the street names, I still travel in big cities.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete, if you're going to post that kind of absolute crap, don't ping me.

@Sanguine

Don't blame ME if *YOU*  can't face reality and want to live in a make-believe world where MLK Jr is not a monster.

[Sanguine]

@Sanguine

Don't blame ME if *YOU*  can't face reality and want to live in a make-believe world where MLK Jr is not a monster.

Pete, I said quit it.  You can believe whatever crappy things you want to; just don't try to force them on others.

I don't know much about MLK's personal life and I'm fine with that. 

[sneakypete]

I don't know much about MLK's personal life and I'm fine with that.

@Sanguine

I guess for some people ignorance CAN be bliss.

[mountaineer]

Don't remove the street names, I still travel in big cities.

And you want to know which neighborhoods are not safe at night?

[ABX]

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

  *  The shocking unearthed tapes have been analyzed by biographer David Garrow
  *  Material shows the scale of King's philandering and claims he fathered a child
  *  It also show how King looked on while Logan Kearse raped a parishioner
  *  Revelations could lead to a 'painful historical reckoning' for the civil rights hero

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We'll see how long it takes to remove the MLK monument from Washington, D.C.     

I admittedly have not read the full article or listened to the recordings so this may be a dumb question... But...
Are the tapes actually of King himself or of others talking about King? We all knew the Democrat JFK administration (specifically RFK) wanted to take King down and we know he had the FBI setting him up with prostitutes, so if it is just others talking about King, this may not be a big revelation.

Either way though, we've been told the past few years none of this type of behavior matters anyway.