Nobody really wants to believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a shameful human being.
June 17, 2019 By John Glynn
César Chávez once declared, "History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless."
This quote got me thinking. How will history judge Martin Luther King, Jr.?
"The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King," a recent essay published by widely respected historian David Garrow in Standpoint, a widely respected British magazine, sparked fierce debate among historians. Within the press, however, Garrow's essay was met with a reaction somewhere between ambivalence and outright refutation.
Remember, this is David Garrow, author of King's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography. This is an author of real merit.
According to Garrow, King engaged in orgies, solicited prostitutes, and "looked on and laughed" as a rape took place before his very eyes.............Again, this report comes from a senior adviser to Eyes on the Prize, an award-winning series documenting the Civil Rights movement. Garrow is very much a liberal's liberal. He's certainly no friend of the right, and he's certainly no enemy of King. In fact, Garrow is, in many ways, a former idolator..........For decades, King's critics claimed that much of the civil rights leader's academic writings were plagiarized. Dyson tells us, in no uncertain terms, that King regularly engaged in acts of intellectual piracy.......To Read More
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