August 28, 2013 was the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I HAVE A DREAM" speech and the news is full of remembrances. Here's a different one.
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SOMETHING THE LEFT WILL NEVER TELL YOU
Martin Luther King, Jr. was pursued, tracked, bugged, surveyed, spied on, etc., not by "evil white Republicans", but by the most esteemed Democrats who have ever lived: the Kennedy's. They never found what they were looking for: ties with King to the Communist Party. However, they did turn up a rather full dossier of King's extramarital affairs. But then the Kennedy's couldn't really say anything about that, could they?
As an aside, King's affairs were (amazingly) confirmed and documented by his successor, Ralph Abernathy. They had already been reported, but Abernathy, perhaps in an effort to assuage his own guilty conscience for indulging in the same, wrote about King's affairs in an effort to explain them ("Martin and I were away more often than we were at home...Some men are able to bear such deprivations better than others.") He also went on to further "excuse" King's affairs because King was such an important person that "he attracted women in droves". Okay, so it was the women's fault. They couldn't control themselves.
This is no slight against King or Abernathy. The sexual peccadillos of the Kennedy boys, all three of them, make King and Abernathy look like simple hormone driven high-schoolers. And at least neither King nor Abernathy left their girl friends at the bottom of a lake.
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