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  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    Rumors of King’s use of church funds to feed his penchant for White prostitutes were circulating in very high circles long before they were made public. US President Lyndon Johnson once called King was a “hypocritical preacher.” Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who signed off on the wiretaps and hotel/motel room electronic surveillance of King, then played audio taped evidence of King’s extramarital affairs at cocktail parties, much to the delight of brothers Jack and Ted, who convulsed in fits of laughter upon hearing them.

    Dr. Ralph Abernathy, a close associate of King, stated in his 1989 autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down that King had a “weakness for women.” In a later interview, Abernathy said he only wrote the term “womanizing” and did not specifically say King had extramarital sex. King’s biographer David Garrow detailed what he called King’s “compulsive sexual athleticism,” writing about a number of extramarital affairs, including one with a woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, “that relationship, rather than his marriage, increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King’s life, but it did not eliminate the other incidental couplings that were a commonplace of King’s travels.” King explained his extramarital affairs as “a form of anxiety reduction”. Garrow noted that King’s promiscuity was the cause of “painful and overwhelming guilt feelings.”

    On January 31, 1977, United States district Judge John Lewis Smith, Jr., ordered all known copies of the recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI’s electronic surveillance of King between 1963 and 1968 to be held in the National Archives and sealed from public access until 2027.
  • CH156378
    CH156378 Posts: 1,539
    What a great way to spend Mlk day celbrating the reinaugeration of the nations fist black president.
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    edited January 2017
    JC29856 said:

    MLK spoke truth, he stood for the oppressed, not just the "blacks"

    Over the years his legacy has been perverted and bastardized

    One of the greatest Americans to ever live

    Mountaintop speech is awesome, the end he is basically saying... I know Im a dead man, but Im not scared, not worried, you're scared, you're worried, kill me the man but you cant kill the message



    What would you do if you KNEW that what you stood for would kill you? Would you still take to the streets, speak and march against the powerful?



    .........

    And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night."



    And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?



    Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.

    And I don't mind.

    Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!



    And so I'm happy, tonight.

    I'm not worried about anything.

    I'm not fearing any man!

    Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!

    Never too early to begin celebrating one of America's most courageous civil rights leaders.
    Inspired by congressman Lewis
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  • JC29856
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    JC29856 said:

    "unjust war distracted from domestic social programs"

    Add prophetic to his legacy!!!

    Deserves requote and bold.

    "unjust war distracted from domestic social programs"
  • JC29856
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    JC29856 said:

    "I don't think loyalty to the country should be measured by our ability to kill. I think our loyalties to the country should be measured by our ability to lead the nation to higher heights of democracy and the great dream of justice and humanity"

    Dedicated to the Cold Warriors:

    I don't think loyalty to the country should be measured by our ability to kill. I think our loyalties to the country should be measured by our ability to lead the nation to higher heights of democracy and the great dream of justice and humanity
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    Happy 88th birthday, I got you alittle something you might like.

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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,199
    JC29856 said:

    Happy 88th birthday, I got you alittle something you might like.

    image

    Did you spew when you found that pic? Feeling a little superior maybe? Or relieved? Maybe wiki has the truth?
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    JC29856 said:

    Happy 88th birthday, I got you alittle something you might like.

    image

    And then Trump killed her!!!!!!

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KnmhMKLlJyE
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  • JC29856
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    "Pervert and bastardize" MLK

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/martin-luther-king-jr-was-a-true-conservative/2017/01/15/b0f465e4-d9c6-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    edited January 2017
    Perverted!




    https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/john_lewis/400240

    https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400240#enacted_ex=on
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  • JC29856
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    JC29856 said:

    Stokely Carmichael warning King, "The Man don’t care you call ghettos concentration camps, but when you tell him his war machine is nothing but hired killers you got trouble." Carmichael was right.

    MLK on Vietnam
    .... to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

    Is our own government still the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today?
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    edited January 2017
    this is your brain for civil rights

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    this is your brain against unjust wars

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    any questions?
  • JC29856
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    Sorry but I'm feeling nostalgic today... hardcore PJ fans know that the band frequently mentions coming full circle, tracing roots and etc. Here is a piece on two hot topics lately, intel agencies and ties to Russia.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/07/the-fbi-and-martin-luther-king/302537/
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    edited January 2017
    JimmyV said:

    Unfortunately it doesn't mean much. I think MLK was a heroic man who did wonderful work and whose murder was a tragedy, but I am not sure we need a day for him specifically. There are many icons of the civil rights movement who should be honored as well.

    If you're off from work today and didn't "volunteer" to give your service for free by showing up anyway, you can peruse the history "books" of mlk fbi files and assassination trial transcripts.

    https://archive.org/details/MLKFBI

    https://archive.org/details/CorettaScottKingEtAl.VS.LoydJowersEtAl
  • JC29856
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    JC29856 said:

    this is your brain for civil rights

    image

    this is your brain against unjust wars

    image

    any questions?

    But what they don’t mention is that King was not just a fighter for racial justice, he also fought for economic justice and against war. And as a result, he spent the last years of his life, before being assassinated in 1968, clashing not just with reactionary Southern segregationists, but with the Democratic Party’s elite and other civil rights leaders, who viewed his turn against the Vietnam War and the American economic system as dangerous and radical.

    https://theintercept.com/2017/01/16/what-the-santa-clausification-of-martin-luther-king-jr-leaves-out/
  • JC29856
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    edited January 2017



    Notice civil rights, no mention of economic injustice or unjust wars.

    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter
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  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    What do you hear in this video?

    You think MLK was convinced he was a dead man?

    https://youtu.be/Oehry1JC9Rk
  • JC29856
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    MLKIII meets trump...look at the questions ask of him.
    Notice they didn't ask "what would your father say about Lewis 30 years of public service".

    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314476-mlk-iii-refuses-to-say-whether-trumps-criticism-of-lewis-offended-him
  • JC29856
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    JC29856 said:
    .........
    And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night."

    And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

    Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.
    And I don't mind.
    Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!

    And so I'm happy, tonight.
    I'm not worried about anything.
    I'm not fearing any man!
    Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!
    nostalgic!

    http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/ive-been-mountaintop

  • Halifax2TheMax
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    Feeling a little radical tonight.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs


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