Absolutely and also MLK day should be abolished immediately...
Of course.
MLK Day should be renamed to #MeToo Day. All the streets named after him should be renamed #MeToo.
Where are all the libs? Seems they would be outraged having a holiday for a sexist and person who pressured women into sex.
People under 50 don’t even really know who he was. They don’t know his speeches. They sure don’t know my fave-the “mountaintop” one.
Then there’s his whole commie-not commie thing.
Someone on FR, a LEO, IIRC, used to write about the lingerers who took over once King and crew left. Druggies, robbers, and rioters, the lot of them. THOSE were the ‘crowd’ that loved King.
Then there’s the plagiarism thing. It’s hard to imagine plagiarizing a thesis, since the bloody thing’s hard to do in the first place.
In fairness, when King said that black people were being judged on their skin color rather than the content of their color. So he was against it for obvious reasons. Now it's official leftist dogma that white people are to be judge on their skin color rather than the content of their character so it's not a slam dunk that King wouldn't support that all of a sudden.
Just sayin'.
I was saying this LAST YEAR when confederate statues were coming down.
Just based on beating the @#$#$ out of prostitutes, which has been known forever, I said he should be pulled down.
Let me have this moment. I dont ask for much in life :)
I will withhold judgement until I see the evidence and see it proven that it wasn’t created by Hoover or minions.
How about we just acknowledge that MLK was a human being with flaws (like the rest of us) who also accomplished some great things (unlike the rest of us)? Maybe then we can also stop vilifying Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and other great men who also happened to be human.
Even with evidence, MLKJr will get a pass with his race card.
Lot’s of MLK Blvds being renamed to Jussie Smollett Aves??
Chuck Todd and Mika won't mention a word of this story... New York Times and Washington Post will duck it .... And yeah it would have been front page above the fold if it had been about Goldwater, or Reagan or ANY Republican...
The Rats and their hateful racist Congressional Black Caucus will NEVER face the truth about MLK. NEVER.
Neither will the LIARS in the Rat fake news media.
MLK didn’t just have an affair, he had multiple affairs and participated in many grotesquely perverted orgies. He was a SICK b@st@rd in his sexual appetites. He definitely led a double life.
The left is getting what they’ve asked for but I feel bad for his family; this should’ve been brought out while he was alive.
There is no winning argument here for the left. Either MLK had some personal demons, or the FBI is still as corrupt today as it was when they spied on MLK — back when Robert Kennedy authorized FBI wiretaps and Hoover tried to strong arm or blackmail him by threatening to expose (and possibly fabricating letters) infidelity.
Personally, I say leave MLK alone. All this talk of tearing down statues reminds me of the Taliban blowing up those historic Buddhist carvings. There is much to learn from historic figures - good things and bad things. Their statues and street names are not shrines to their sins, but to the good they did for the country. Leaving them intact allows us all the opportunity to learn and to teach. You cannot erase history by destroying statues, in fact to do so is an act of denial that only punishes ourselves.
But, there is a lesson here for the left... They should stop being so reflexively defensive of the US Intelligence apparatus. In fact the left used to be most skeptical in part because of how the FBI and DOJ acted towards legitimate protests by African Americans in the 1960’s and 1970s (and up through the post 9-11 ME wars) but once these agencies became weaponized as partisan political tools for the left they became cheerleaders.
And streets?? Just a warning to wear your kevlar.
Yes. Rename all the schools and streets named after him as well. Take away the holiday. Vilify him all the history books.
No, but the FBI should be immediately disbanded for this and dozens of other abuses and civil rights violations.
It is a creation of the progressive era, run by a homo for 5 decades, became famous for collecting blackmail on US politicians and then have a Comey style meeting with them...”you might want to know this is out there”.
They were in on JFK. They did not know the mafia existed before Valachi sang. They deposed Nixon in a bloodless coup because Felt wanted to be the next Hoover.
It routinely lies and violates laws as they feel they “need” to and are trained to do so. They mass murdered the people in Waco. They murdered at Ruby Ridge. They murdered Finicum and lied about it. They refuse to record interviews as the demand all city police to do.
They have still done nothing about Epstein island.
They ignored the Boston Bombers, 9/11, the Pulse, etc.
And now the backflipping dancing homos shooting people in the ankle in Denver tried to overthrow the US government.
Disband them.
This is just another FBI abuse.
No.
These statue memorials are thought to be accolades, but in the longer view, they are only what we choose they are when we deploy them.
Example: at the monument to Jefferson one may note correctly all of the complexities in his life - revolutionary & patriot, author of the Declaration of Independence, President, intellectual, founder of UVa, Francophile, anti-slaver while being a slave holder, interracial lover, and chief negotiator of the magnificent Louisiana Purchase, etc. All of it true.
Same way with MLK. We are all complex; we are all imperfect. We do some things absolutely right, and some wrong. Tanking ANY monument means bowing to political correctness. No thanks; in fact, never. We must continue to showcase historical figures - warts and all. Else, how will we learn?
The monuments must stand - what we choose to learn from them is on us.
” Robert Kennedy was the attorney general; he ordered this surveillance of Martin Luther King. And everybody blames J. Edgar Hoover for this”
Nd he did it based upon J Edgar Hoover, the blackmailer, coming in and telling him he was following a communist plot. Had Bobby not done it, he knew Hoover would expose JFK having affairs.