"It is all there on the record, your sexual orgies. Listen to yourself you filthy, abnormal animal. You are on the record. You have been on the record – all your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies extending far into the past. This one is but a tiny sample. You will understand this. Yes, from your various evil playmates on the east coast to [name redacted] and others on the west coast and outside the country, you are on the record. King you are done.... King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is.... There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
King = Martin Luther King, Jr.
The text is a letter written in 1964 by an unspecified FBI official.
Even now, looking at a full copy of the letter, it’s tough to puzzle out just what the bureau wanted King to do. The largest unredacted section focuses on King’s sex life, recounting in graphic language what the bureau believed it knew. Another uncovered portion of the note praises “older leaders” like the N.A.A.C.P. executive director Roy Wilkins, urging King to step aside and let other men lead the civil rights movement. And some maintain that they simply meant to push King out, not induce suicide.
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They were urging him to commit suicide. No doubt. That is one ugly letter and an uglier process.
Where was Bobby Kennedy on this one? In theory the FBI was under his supervision. Was he ignorant of all this? Did his own family's vulnerabilities on the subject come into play. Or did he not mind having the chit? Ditto LBJ.
The silly FBI was approaching their enemy MLK like he was from New England Puritan tradition where enemies could be destroyed by sexual accusations.
But MLK was from the lusty inland port RR town called Atlanta where the Southern Baptists that raised him here accept free grace to sinners including themselves. They missed by a mile; and MLK kept right on going until his mission was completed.
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Just change the name King to Hoover and add in a sentence or two about cross dressing gay ways in a 1964 context and I'm thinking frank it and mail it!
If MLK was fortunate enough to be surrounded by so many consenting adults, good on him.
Waiting until Heaven for one's reward seems quite foolish to me.
Government ham-handedness is not a new thing, by any stretch.
Today they'd just audit him multiple times.
Take this one letter and recording. Secretly sent to King and backed by a smoking gun sex tape. Compare it to what Clarence Thomas was forced to endure. Was Thomas the subject of surveillance that just came up dry? Or maybe something was privately sent? I think Thomas got it worse overall.
The homosexual crime fighter hated the black reverand.
"David said...
Where was Bobby Kennedy on this one?"
Seriously? He and Jack were part of it.
RFK became a friend of the black man when he figured out they could put him over the top to become President.
This FBI agent that wrote that was a Democrat to boot. MLK was a Republican.
Ted was the Kennedy behind the "high tech lunching" of Thomas.
lynching
"You are a complete fraud and a liability to all of us Negroes." Curious who at the FBI wrote this.
I bet anal sex was involved.
User: EDH,
I think Thomas got it worse overall.
Worse than getting shot and killed?
User: traditional,
They missed by a mile; and MLK kept right on going until his mission was completed.
He was killed before he could complete it, actually.
After MLK's assassination a small, tight-knit group of women came together as a select group. Their common thread: they had all, at one time or another, put a finger up MLK's butt. Simply having slept with MLK was not grounds to join: it was the 'Finger Up MLK's Butt' club, and that was the necessary event for admission.
By the early Seventies the group grew fractious, with the two- and three-finger groups jockeying for a better position in the 'Finger Up MLK's Butt' hierarchy. As the group started to splinter the women who had performed analingus on MLK agitated for more special treatment.
Jesse Jackson was called in to try to defuse the situation, but once he realized that no one wanted to put a finger up HIS butt he excused himself from his mediator role.
Finally, the end of the club happened when a man attempted to join, claiming he, too, had once put a finger up MLK's butt.
There are some bonds not strong enough to weather rough seas.
Listen you screwheads, here is a man who would not take it anymore...
From the Oral History of the 'Finger Up MLK's Butt' Club.
Marilou Smith:
"Me and the Reverend were on a bed in a motel in Birmingham, just relaxing while I had my finger up his butt. It wasn't even sexual or nothing, Martin just said he could think clearer with a woman's finger in his ass. So there we are in that Birmingham motel, me with my finger up his ass and he came up with the line "I have a dream." I have to tell you, that was the highlight of my life: Martin coming up with that line while I had my finger up his butt: I'd like to think I played a part of it, a small part of history, you know?"
Lucinda Johnson:
"That Marilou Smith, she keeps telling that story bless her heart but everyone knows that's not true. I am not saying she's lying, mind you, she had her finger up Martin's butt a number of times -- no one is disputing that -- but she certainly is confused. Everyone knows that Harriet was in the motel with the Reverend when he came up with that line."
Harriet Freeman:
"Yes, it was me who was in the motel room with Martin when he came up with the line, but everyone still gets the story wrong. I most certainly did NOT have my finger up the Reverend's butt at the time: I was downstairs licking his cornhole when it happened."
Marilou Smith:
"If Harriet wants to claim that is how it happened she is certainly free to, I don't give it no mind. If Martin were still here I know he'd set the record straight, and I can live with that."
Lucinda Johnson:
"We were all proud of doing what we could to help the reverend, even if was only by putting a finger in his ass to help him think. Still, it was creepy when Jesse Jackson kept hanging around, hinting that a finger in HIS ass would help HIM think, too; that boy ain't right, we all know that."
1964? Liberal Democrat Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States and extremely-liberal Robert Kennedy was Attorney General.
Even back then the liberal Democrats expected Black folks to know their place on the Plantation.
Democrats attacking a black man in the 1960s? That's rather ordinary and routine.
Juxtapose this with modern feminists efforts to shame men for their sexuality and sexual expressiveness.
MLK accomplished his mission by years of courageous leadership and immortal words that kept on going after his death like Abraham Lincoln's courageous leadership and words kept on going.
IMO their electing Obama was the final event in an ongoing relationship of MLK and whites that went into overdrive the day MLK was martyred.
don't they know how to turn on the spell checker?
please
@Roger, it was 1964. Spell checkers were two decades into the future.
The content of King's personality was less than the content of his persona.
MLK was a Republican.
His father, Martin Luther King Senior was at one point a registered Republican but the son for whom the holiday is named after was not. I recall reading in Barry Goldwater’s autobiography that not only did MLK endorse Johnson for President; he publicly compared Goldwater to Hitler.
The content of King's personality was less than the content of his persona.
That seems to be the case for a lot of secular saints.
Thorley Winston:
Absolutely. Still, they can be appreciated for their positive aspects, if not as a whole. It is a rare occasion when an individual is perfectly virtuous. I would not, however, anoint them as saints. We can and should learn from both their virtues and sins in context.
Still, WE can be appreciated for OUR positive aspects, if not always as a whole, unless our sins take precedence over our virtues.
n.n. - agreed :)
Thorley Winston:
Finally, someone agrees with me on something. I was beginning to think that I was from the dark side of the moon... and everyone else was behind the wall looking down on me.
Atheists and Democrats always seem to think that if you espouse any moral code at all, you must then be perfect.
Especially if you call yourself a Christian.
This is probably the most confusing part of Christianity. While I expect even adherents to get it wrong, I'd be disappointed if Christianities enemies didn't purposefully misunderstand and twist the words around.
We are called upon to point out what is good and what is sin. Murder is sin. Theft is sin. Rape is sin. Assault is sin.
The list goes on for quite some time.
But one thing is clear. Those of us who say, "Murder is sin. Theft is sin. Rape is sin. Assault is sin." Are ourselves murderers, rapists, and thieves.
Christianities?
I don't know where that word came from.
traditionalguy said...
"...They missed by a mile; and MLK kept right on going until his mission was completed."
They missed, but not by a mile. He was not at home when the package arrived, and so his wife opened it. I doubt she was particularly surprised.
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