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The womanizing and having a thing for white hookers was common knowledge, especially in the black church community. If the rape story claimed here is true, that is a different matter.
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The womanizing and having a thing for white hookers was common knowledge, especially in the black church community. If the rape story claimed here is true, that is a different matter.
Wasn't it the Rev. Ralph Abernathy who told about King slapping hookers around? He liked it rough.
Was not a secret. Right after he died, they said he had just come back from a white hooker he paid with church money. His buddy, Abernathy, wrote about MLK liking white hookers.
We knew that MLK was sexist - even a bit for his time period. For example he is on record telling a physically abused wife that she needs to look in the mirror to figure out why her husband beats her and then change. He told a different wife who was getting cheated on that she needed to be more like the other lady. We knew he had affairs, made sexist jokes (even at JFKs funeral supposedly), we knew he used hookers, and would ask women to go get coffee if they offered advice on civil rights.
...but did we know he laughed about a rape in progress? Did we know it was 40 affairs? Did we know about having a kid out of wedlock?
He still did many good things for the country, but geesh...this is a bad track record if true.
Dr. King's "extracurricular activities" were and are considered okay for men of color - for example, slapping around a prostitute, especially a white one, was/is not only acceptable and expected, it was/is considered a display of manliness.
Dr. King's "extracurricular activities" were and are considered okay for men of color - for example, slapping around a prostitute, especially a white one, was/is not only acceptable and expected, it was/is considered a display of manliness.
No, it is NOT okay for men of color. My father didn’t cheat on my mother and I would not find it acceptable for my husband to cheat on me or my boys to cheat on their wives. Not a single man in my life ever hit a woman, regardless of color, regardless of the type of relationship. We are not some kind of moral lightweights due to the color of our skin.
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I have predicted this. As a man who is in a relationship with a Black American/African American woman. These women take honesty, virtue, truth seriously, but mainly the ones who are big into academia, Social Justice, and black feminism. These types of women can easily become hurt when a man cheats, or does something morally wrong like using racial slurs, or has a negative past even that man corrected himself. Such nuances will cause types of people in certain echo chambers to distance themselves from such individuals. Than you have the metoo movement which was designed to create awareness of the mistreatment of young black women. The metoo movement was not for white women, but the movement was hijacked by the white feminist. The metoo movement was for black women to make aware about sexual violence and sexual harassment that happens at home, at church, at school, the work place and on the streets that black women face on a daily basis. Especially since black women have been historically over sexualized.
Now back to MLK. When the government releases those tapes of him with other women. This event will hurt black women, black activists, allies of black activist like the white liberal and so forth. Same way how the left call for the take down of Confederate statues. It wont be long until the left uses iconoclasm to tear down MLK statues across America. This is not good in my opinion. I'm all for forgiveness and move along, but for some. It is hard to forgive and I understand. Sadly no one is not perfect, especially someone that is virtues like MLK.
Also now in America amongst the left. The left rewards people on their basis of ones skin, and not the merits of their character. People now a days do not follow MLK notion anymore. As time moves on, folks will forget about MLK. Only white liberals and white conservatives remember him and use his holiday just as a day off with no celebration.
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OK, my appreciation for MLK, Jr. seems to have dropped quite a bit! Should I put him on the same level of disdain I have for the race-baiting Al Sharpton stories I sometimes hear/read? I could see that being the case if MLK, Jr. did rape any person or laughed while another person committed a rape rather than try to stop it. Honestly, I wonder which Black American leader during or after MLK, Jr.'s time is akin to a Black Mr. Rogers. Sure, Fred Rogers wasn't perfect. However, I think he is 1 of the if not the nicest person I have ever read about!
For the record, while a consensual affair between two consenting adults is vile, I think it is certainly not as vile as raping or sexually assaulting someone (adult or underage). When I say "consenting", I mean that during the entire duration of the affair, it was completely consensual.
No, it is NOT okay for men of color. My father didn’t cheat on my mother and I would not find it acceptable for my husband to cheat on me or my boys to cheat on their wives. Not a single man in my life ever hit a woman, regardless of color, regardless of the type of relationship. We are not some kind of moral lightweights due to the color of our skin.
Glad to hear it! Good on you and your family! How do you suggest we go about removing all the MLK statues and renaming all the MLK streets?
I suggest we rename them all in honor of Michael Jackson, or maybe Tiger Woods or OJ Simpson.
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