Want to criticize MLK for being a plagiarist? Fine, do so. That’s an ill mark on him as I have acknowledged. Heck, I’ll even support your criticism of MLK there since that is due criticism there. But guess what? You should equally condemn Thomas Jefferson for plagiarizing John Locke when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, that’s the only way you’re not going to be a hypocrite.
King spent the last night of his life enjoying the attentions of not one but two lovers, followed by an encounter with a third woman whom he knocked sprawling across his motel room bed.
At around 7am, King burst into their bedroom, looking alarmed, said Abernathy. King needed his friend’s help to calm down a third woman who was, he said, ‘mad at me. She came in this morning and found my bed empty’. ‘King, a married man, had been unfaithful even in his unfaithfulness.’
The drama didn’t end there. When the third woman turned up in the room, her argument with King became so intense that he ‘lost his temper and knocked her across the bed’.
Rev Ralph Abernathy—Civil rights campaigner who was the man who cradled King the day he was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.
Autobiography of Ralph Abernathy (1989) — who succeeded King as the movement’s leader confirmed that long-standing rumours about his old friend’s rampant sexual appetites were true.