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Martin Luther King Jr.
>>>>>>>>>> Martin Luther (lutheran dude from1500's or so).
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Sex with single and married women continued after King married, and on the night before his death, King had two adulterous trysts. His first rendezvous was at a woman's house, the second in a hotel room. The source for this was his best friend and second-in-command, Ralph Abernathy, who noted that the second woman was "a member of the Kentucky legislature," now known to be Georgia Davis Powers.
Georgia Powers
Georgia Powers, one of King's lovers.
Abernathy went on to say that a third woman was also looking for King that same night, but found his bed empty. She knew his habits and was angry when they met later that morning. In response, writes Abernathy, King "lost his temper" and "knocked her across the bed … She leapt up to fight back, and for a moment they were engaged in a full-blown fight, with [King] clearly winning." A few hours later, King ate lunch with Abernathy and discussed the importance of nonviolence for their movement.
Anyways, article doesn't change any of my beliefs about the man.
So, Meh
HTTB:
Really? None of this detracts from what he did for the country as a whole.
THIS
Originally Posted by spsfinest212
Why are you so upset. I don't agree with this guy's take on MLK but you can't deny some of the facts he pointed out.Originally Posted by cguy610
Pretty pathetic article.
If you want to see the footnotes for where he got his information to support the article, you have to send in $3.
Mods should lock this up. This isn't an "Interesting Take on MLK's Life". This is just a libelous article bashing MLK and is only going to start the usual arguments here.
Exactly.Originally Posted by KingJay718
The Kennedys weren't exactly saints either...
Originally Posted by JinKazama
Moral of the story...ain't nobody perfect
We have all done shady crap in our lives. Hopefully by the time we pass away the good outweighs the bad. IMO MLK met that standard.
Originally Posted by Uptown Roamer
Good read, but really though, if anybody does some diggin' on some of the other iconic and historic people in this country, I can guarantee you that you'll find similar %$%@ on EVERYBODY.
Everybody has their %$%@ and like it's been said, nobody's perfect...
Like liberals today, King denied racial differences. In a reply to an interviewer who told him many Southern whites thought racial differences were a biological fact, he replied:
"This utterly ignorant fallacy has been so thoroughly refuted by the social scientists, as well as by medical science, that any individual who goes on believing it is standing in an absolutely misguided and diminishing circle. The American Anthropological Association has unanimously adopted a resolution repudiating statements that Negroes are biologically, in innate mental ability or in any other way inferior to whites."
The conclusions to be drawn from his belief in across-the-board equality were clear: failure by blacks to achieve at the level of whites could be explained only by white oppression. As King explained in one interview, "I think we have to honestly admit that the problems in the world today, as they relate to the question of race, must be blamed on the whole doctrine of white supremacy, the whole doctrine of racism, and these doctrines came into being through the white race and the exploitation of the colored peoples of the world." King predicted that "if the white world" does not stop this racism and oppression, "then we can end up in the world with a kind of race war."
So what the author is proposing is that there IS something biologically inferior in black people. That right there is enough for me to discountany of this guy's writing.
Also, the source of the article is taken from a racist website. It's veiled as a website discussing race matters but dig a little deeper and it'sreally just another white supremacy site.
Must have been asking him to desegregate the schools for the 15th time..Originally Posted by COOLnificent
Originally Posted by spsfinest212
[table][tr][td][/td] [/tr][tr][th=""]King and President Lyndon Johnson.[/th] [/tr][/table]@ this pic
Yeah, most of the sites posting this are White Nationalist sites.Originally Posted by Tus4Prez
This entire article is coming from a white pride website. Here's another posting about "Race and IQ" from this website
"One of the most destructive myths of modern times is that people of all races have the same average intelligence. It is widely accepted that genes account for much of the difference in intelligence between individuals, but many people still refuse to believe genes explain group differences in average intelligence. This blindness leads to futile attempts to eliminate "learning gaps" between the races and forces whites to accept the view that if blacks and Hispanics are less successful than whites, it is because of white "racism."
I don't even understand why this was posted to begin with since it is obviously from a website full of hate and bigotry.
Originally Posted by JFK
Source of article please.
Like any other person, King had his faults. But you can't take away his legacy or his accomplishments because he was striving for the common good. King was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement and without his participation, who knows what would have happened.
"This utterly ignorant fallacy has been so thoroughly refuted by the social scientists, as well as by medical science, that any individual who goes on believing it is standing in an absolutely misguided and diminishing circle. The American Anthropological Association has unanimously adopted a resolution repudiating statements that Negroes are biologically, in innate mental ability or in any other way inferior to whites."
Do you DISAGREE with that statement? The author of your "interesting view" does.
There are plenty of sensible works on Dr. King's life, which include his flaws. (Most recently, King: Pilgrimageto the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff)
If you want to learn more about the man, that's a good place to start - not some bilious libel posted on a hate site.