As much as I actually really love MLK's speeches, sermons, movement. I am afraid there appears to be some unfortunate truths about the man. None are perfect except God. That doesn't make the positives he did any less great, it just reminds us of the nature of humanity.

And that's not to detract from how gross it is that government abused it's power to attempt to get someone to commit suicide. Reminds me of Aaron Swartz case too.

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dyauspitr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I’ve never really consider sexual impropriety problematic in someone I look up to unless it’s pedophilia or rape.

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tropdrop 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Elsewhere in the comments here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr (David Garrow), according to this article [1]:

"The most damaging memos describe King witnessing a rape in a hotel room. Instead of stopping it, handwritten notes in the file say he encouraged the attacker to continue."

1 - https://theconversation.com/im-an-mlk-scholar-and-ill-never-...

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maerF0x0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He was a Christian minister though, and many of us value him not just for his contributions to civil rights, but to the conversation of how God wants us to treat one another.

	▲	IG_Semmelweiss 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well said. He was brave and an incredible orator. But not exactly a paragon of virtue, someone who can lead by example, which we really need at the highest rungs of power.