Posted on 05/11/2011 10:22:57 AM PDT by mojito
Did you hear that ripping sound? Two liberal icons known by their silly stage names — Mahatma Gandhi and Malcolm X — have just been torn down from their sanctified perches thanks to a pair of massively researched but finally damning new biographies.
Both men, it turns out, were at pains to take on phony identities. Each hid his homosexuality, each was racist, each took pains to manufacture favorable coverage, each was driven by petty hatreds instead of shining ideals — each of these supposedly principled figures was an out-and-out phony.
Perhaps the most delicious irony of this myth-busting is that writers with impeccable liberal credentials are the ones who are doing the exposing — and implicitly rebuking the generations of journalists who actively participated in the distortion and exaggeration.
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Mohandas Gandhi also successfully hid his homosexuality — his biographer Joseph Lelyveld, former editor of The New York Times, writes in his admiring new book Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India that the Indian leader dumped his wife to have an affair with a German bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach. “How completely you have taken possession of my body,” he wrote to Kallenbach. Gandhi even said that Vaseline was “a constant reminder” of his boyfriend.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Whoa, that’s some expose, right down to the vaseline love letter!
And Malcolm X as well.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X was very specific in its mention of his father’s adherence to the politics of Marcus Garvey.
What else did this author not get correct?
PajamaMedia is susspect but the article is quite interesting.
I am very skeptical of revisionist histories, especially those which paint historical figures as homosexual. It’s entirely plausible that Ghandi wasn’t quite a saint, and Malcom X’s background of racial hatred is no secret, but trying to paint them both as gay? That smacks of the effort to say Abraham Lincoln was gay. If they’ve got pictures or first-hand eyewitness accounts of these guys taking it in the rear, then I’ll believe. Otherwise, meh.
I’m glad the spelling police are always around whenever I make a typo.
Keep up the good work.
So this is the evidence that Gandhi was not a great man, an accusation of homosexuality?
Penn and teller do a very nice skewering of Mother Teresa. Pretty amazing, actually.
That smacks of the effort to say Abraham Lincoln was gay. If they’ve got pictures or first-hand eyewitness accounts of these guys taking it in the rear, then I’ll believe. Otherwise, meh.
Got a point. With the agressive gay agenda and the liberal writers, it could be said that everyone coming over on the Mayflower were gay - Adam and Eve were gay. Gotta have a lot more proof.
Just messin' with ya.
I have a cat named Malcolm and I made the same mistake more than once.
Strange.
He used to sleep with his teen-age nieces in later years. I don't think that's a rumor.
It's kind of like Michael Jackson. He was never caught red-handed by a photographer but all the quirky habits do lead one to think these things are true.
There's already plenty of evidence to prove that he was not so great even without this charge.
What else do you think that he did not get correct?
I don’t know - but I do know that you don’t need to catch a liar in every lie to know that they are less than scrupulous with the truth.
Not a lie to leave that fact out - but certainly a bit of relevant knowledge that didn't fit the narrative - and thus was ‘somehow’ left out.
But to think the jewel of the british empire was brought down by a sissy boy does bring a smile to my face.
Winston Churchill
Such as?
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