It is true that Martin Luther King’s private virtues were not worth mentioning; as a pastor, he committed adultery and prostitutes; as a doctor, he plagiarized and plagiarized. But such a man is called a great man by Americans because the Yankees think that sex scandals have nothing to do with the black civil rights cause.
The tapes of Martin Luther King’s sexuality were sent to the American media, to funders of the civil rights movement, and to King’s wife. The intent was clear: to ruin King’s marriage, if not to stink him up. So, on January 5, 1965, Mrs. King received the sex tape recording of his husband’s infidelity and had a big fight with King. The American press, however, was surprisingly unanimous in refusing to publish the material, arguing that the sex scandal had nothing to do with the black civil rights cause led by King, but rather that Hoover had engaged in wiretapping and the like, which was far more abhorrent.
Against the backdrop of national liberation after World War II, the civil rights movement took off as blacks in the American South became increasingly intolerant of the long-standing “segregation” system. In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested for occupying a “white seat” on a bus, and in order to fight against the draconian law, Martin Luther King, Jr. started a strike movement, and he became a leading figure in the civil rights movement.
King also became the subject of FBI surveillance as a result. Hoover, who has been the director of the FBI since 1924, is an iron-fisted director. Originally, Hoover sent someone to wiretap King because he thought he might have ties to the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, but ended up accidentally discovering another side of the unpleasant human rights fighter.
On February 22, 1964, in a Los Angeles hotel, King and a colleague talked about the televised funeral of President John F. Kennedy. At the time, Kennedy’s widow leaned over and kissed in the middle of the casket, and King smiled and said, “That’s what she’ll miss most!” The words were recorded on tape. This extremely mean and spiteful remark, coming from a pastor who spends his days preaching the charity of Christ in his sermons, certainly proves the hypocrisy of the speaker.
Not only that, but the FBI found that Martin Luther King’s lecture tour was a tour of prostitutes, white prostitutes, black prostitutes, he called, sometimes recruiting more than 2 prostitutes at the same time, to engage in promiscuity; drunken multi-sex parties, even to last for days. The obscene words, murmurs and moans during sex were recorded on the FBI tapes. Even though, when King went to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, his only interest in the evening was soliciting prostitutes.
Ralph Abernathy, one of the leaders of the black civil rights movement in the United States, mentioned in his autobiography that the night before King’s assassination, he had been with three women and had beaten one of them. King’s biographer also revealed a number of his adulterous acts, but King explained: Adultery is just a way to reduce stress.
In the eyes of FBI Director Hoover: King was a hypocrite, unworthy to lead the civil rights movement. Hoover was a strict and stubborn man who would not tolerate even the appearance of alcoholism or sexual promiscuity from anyone in the Bureau. He was extremely indignant that a man like King, who preached to the nation, should deviate so much from his words and actions.
Later, tapes of Martin Luther King’s sexuality were sent to the American media, to funders of the civil rights movement, and to King’s wife. The intent was clear: to ruin King’s marriage, if not to stink him up.
So, on January 5, 1965, Mrs. King received the sex tape recording of his husband’s infidelity and had a big fight with King.
The American press, however, was surprisingly unanimous in refusing to publish the material, arguing that the sex scandal had nothing to do with the black civil rights cause led by King, but rather that Hoover had engaged in wiretapping and the like, which was more abhorrent.
Private virtue does not affect his political advocacy
When Congress debated a bill to establish a Martin Luther King Day in the late 1970s and early 1980s, his suspected ties to GCD and his private life indiscretions became targets of opponents.
Republican Senator Jesse Helms fought against the establishment of a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. A day before the Senate passed the bill, District Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. denied Helms’ request to release the FBI wiretap tapes and ruled that the information could not be released until 2027. Read: Hurry up and bury it!
Later, President Reagan signed this bill in December 1983, and the third Monday of January became Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Another of King’s scandals was plagiarism and plagiarism. Professor Liu Qing of East China Normal University had a special report in the Oriental Morning Post: When left-wing organizations were organizing King’s posthumous work, they found a lot of plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation at that time. After that, a serious disagreement arose within the scholars, whether to go public? Accusing King of plagiarism was undoubtedly “politically incorrect”; finally, it was the British press that broke the ice in 1989, and there was a public outcry.
In October 1991, Boston University’s review committee submitted a formal report to the university, stating that “there is no doubt that Dr. King has committed plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation, that he has appropriated material from sources that are not identified in notes, or incorrectly identified, or generally identified, and that he has appropriated material from others at intervals in the text, with minor wording changes or verbatim. The “Plagiarism The proportion of plagiarism is 45% in the first half of the paper and 21% in the second half.
In addition, his classic speech, “I Have a Dream,” with its powerful prose, “Let Freedom Ring Out,” is identical or highly similar to the speech given by Archibald Carey, a black minister, at the 1952 Republican National Convention. “appropriated” the work of Rev. J. Wallace Hamilton ……
The scandal of King has been confirmed. I personally do not agree with the “tainted great man” argument, that is actually for the “honorable man”, the implicit logic is that “great men” have the right to do bad things, should not be blamed.
However, at that time, the American media did not follow the FBI’s lead and use the sex scandal to stigmatize Martin Luther King, Jr. The public image of the security deposit helped to promote the American civil rights movement, which eventually led to the desegregation of the United States. This followed the tide of historical progress. This is the breadth of mind and vision of a responsible media.
On the other hand, it is true that King had plagiarism, narrow-mindedness and adultery, but did these detract from those public ideas of racial equality and opposition to violence that he had when he led the civil rights movement? Does it make his political advocacy wrong because he committed adultery and prostitution? Is it wrong for a john to say “1+1=2”?
However, the “god-like logic” of some people in the country, green card people, is astonishing, for example, they will use Martin Luther King Jr. to prostitute himself, to justify the official to have a second wife, the same “private moral issues “Well …… but, which official to have a second wife with salary, not with the money of corruption, which is private virtue? Jin is not an official, does not hold public power, can be the same as the official who has a second wife?
The “moral emperor”, or the “sword-seeking” of history to the present, is what Wang Xiaobo called “childish state”, blind worship and blind attack. The first thing you should do is to be immature in your mind.
For example, a few days ago, some people took out Shu Qi’s early pornographic photos to humiliate her. She did make erotic movies back then, but who did she hurt? Did she steal a public instrument? If not, then it’s a private matter that people have been doing for years, and to keep holding on to it is a private use of a public tool for public opinion.
”All history is contemporary history,” and history – indeed, what we know about history – influences our thinking and our lives all the time. To be wise, we can draw the power of progress from history, rather than engage in “picking dung” and learning cynicism.
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