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.
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve agreed with you fully that his sexual escapades were indeed a very big flaw with his character, one he SHOULD be criticized for. That is not enough to condemn him as a monster, however, which you seem all intent on doing. He still didn’t sell military technological secrets to the Chinese for Campaign Cash, still put America first and foremost, still condemned Communism as an inherently and irreconcilably anti-Christian movement, and he certainly didn’t try to go out of his way to condemn Nixon and McCarthy, even when plenty of prominent leftists have tried to do that since Watergate. He’s as redeemable as Donald Trump, and that’s meant to be a compliment, BTW, not an insult. Not to mention, he was all for pro-life measures and staunchly anti-abortion, which his niece Aleida Scott King inherited.