mlk’s philandering has been well known for a long time, but a new book by Pulitzer-Prize Winning biographer David Garrow is now claiming that king stood by and did nothing (well, he looked on, laughed and offered advice) as his friend raped a woman.
There is zero indication that any of this is true (the affair part is well documented, more talking about the rape). We know that J Edgar Hoover wasn’t too fond of MLK and the way he rallied black people in the US.
But as the article makes clear, it’s about more than his personal affairs. mlk was allegedly a direct witness to a rape and he laughed and encouraged it.
Democrats before the 1964 CRA were the party of racists. That changed once the liberal side of the party took over an gave me and my parents more rights.