Matthew Ehret
Martin Luther King Jr. day has been celebrated every January 15 since it was a made a national holiday through the tireless efforts of Martin’s widow Coretta in 1983.
While many people take the opportunity to treat Martin’s life as a pre-packaged hallmark card of cliché speeches, far too few take the time to fully appreciate not only the depth of his philosophy, and understanding of the multifaceted evils plaguing society but also his brilliant plans, methods and vision for creative problem solving which touched on far more than the single issue of “civil rights” for which he is celebrated.
In fact, on deeper inspection, we should not be surprised to discover that Martin had come to bridge the gulf between racial justice, economic justice, imperial wars abroad and also global economic imperialism and worked hard to create a functional battle plan to solve all of those problems.
It should thus not be surprising that this great leader was killed (followed soon thereafter by his ally Robert Kennedy) before his plans could be put firmly into motion, and the world took a very dark and un-natural trajectory. It should also not be surprising that many years after his death, efforts were put into motion by those unsatisfied with the death of his body- who wished nothing less than the assassination of his memory and legacy.
The 2nd Assassination of MLK
Over the past several years, a second assassination has been attempted decades after the life of Martin Luther King was cut short by a bullet on the balcony of the Loraine Motel on April 4, 1968. A story has gone viral across the international media which promises to shed light on the dark perversity of Martin Luther King Jr, and which has been loudly showcased in the 2023 book “King: A Life” by Jonathan Eig.
The scandal was featured in the June 2019 edition of Standpoint magazine by internationally renowned Martin Luther King “authority” David Garrow and aimed at destroying the myth of King as a moral leader of America by showcasing the ugliness of King’s true self as an orgy-loving abuser who had over 40 affairs and laughed as a friend raped a parishioner. Garrow states that his expose “poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible.”
The fact that so many news outlets jumped on the bandwagon should cause one to wonder why is this happening at this moment in history? Could this strange hysteria over a mediocre slander piece have anything to do with the fact that the polarized cages of left and right are finally breaking down? Could it be that the light shed upon the injustices corruption at the heart of the US government has awoken something within the collective psyche of Americans which many had thought long dead?
The timing is especially strange since the supposed “ground breaking evidence” which the heroic Garrow is bringing to light was actually first made public in November 2017, and on closer inspection, it wouldn’t qualify by any lawyer’s standard as “evidence”.
The “Scandal” Being Exposed
In November 2017, a batch of 19,000 formerly classified government documents, and wiretap transcripts relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy were made public as per the JFK Records Collection Act of 1992.
Although nothing very dramatic was found among that otherwise highly redacted bundle, a strange 20 page FBI report on Martin Luther King Jr did cause some to take notice. In this report published weeks before his murder, an anonymous FBI agent records his assessment that MLK was a paid and loyal member of the Communist Party who had his speeches approved by Communist controllers. Not only that, but the report paints King as a sexual deviant of the highest order.
In the last two pages, the report explains how King engaged in a “two day drunken sex orgy in Washington D.C., Many of those present engaged in sexual acts, natural as well as un-natural, for the entertainment of onlookers. When one of the females shied away from engaging in an unnatural act, King and other males present discussed how she was to be taught and initiated in this respect”.
The conspicuous quality of this FBI report, is that it is so reminiscent of Christopher Steele’s 30 page “dodgy dossier” which justified FBI surveillance on President Trump in the lead up to the 2016 elections. Without ever taking a moment to prove any of its claims, the Steele dossier asserted dozens of instances of Trump’s sexual perversity and his adherence to the nefarious agenda of the Kremlin.
Similarly ignoring all actual evidence, the 1968 FBI report advances an image of King as a degenerate using only hearsay, conjecture, and third hand reports.
For example, the FBI, not known for their honesty, are convinced that King fathered a child with a mistress in Los Angeles purely because they were informed by “a very responsible Los Angeles individual in a position to know”.
The audio tapes, if they exist at all, have never actually been heard by anyone and we are told will supposedly be made public in 2027. One of the few people who was privy to the tapes was King’s wife Coretta who denied their validity to her last days asserting that the static recording did not feature her husband’s voice.
Garrow’s Sleight of Hand
Before going further, it is worth taking a moment to ask who is this David Garrow who has found the courage to reveal the “true Martin Luther King”?
Garrow is celebrated by the Mainstream Press as an international authority on Martin Luther King due largely to his Pulitzer Prize winning 1986 book “Bearing the Cross” which has somehow given him the authority to be the last word on the narrative of King’s life for the next 33 years.
Since that book Garrow has worked as a professor of history at various universities has found himself writing for proven CIA-sponsored mainstream rags such as the Washington Post, NY Times, Financial Times, New Republic and has more recently been stationed in England as a senior research Fellow at Cambridge University from 2005-2011. Today Garrow has become the official biographer of Barack Obama, and also an authority on the fraud of Russia-Gate attracting hordes of Trump supporters to his analysis and broader view of history.
Garrow has also made himself an enemy of the King family by leading slander campaigns against the late Coretta Scott King and her children who have managed the King Family Estate by labelling them as corrupt conspiracy theorists due to the family’s crazy belief that the government had anything to do with King’s assassination.
The Forgotten 1999 Civil Court Case
Garrow was first deployed to attack the family in the wake of the Memphis Civil Court trial in December 1999 wherein a four week long hearing of 70 witnesses ended with a Jury unanimously concluding not only that James Earl Ray (who had died in prison the year earlier) was innocent of the murder of Dr. King, but that the FBI and highest echelons of government conspired in the assassination.
During a press conference Coretta Scott King said:
“There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the civil court’s unanimous verdict has validated our belief. I wholeheartedly applaud the verdict of the jury and I feel that justice has been well served in their deliberations. This verdict is not only a great victory for my family, but also a great victory for America. It is a great victory for truth itself. It is important to know that this was a SWIFT verdict, delivered after about an hour of jury deliberation.”
Coretta’s son Dexter (who is now the president of the King Center) spoke after his mother saying:
“We can say that because of the evidence and information obtained in Memphis we believe that this case is over. This is a period in the chapter. We constantly hear reports, which trouble me, that this verdict creates more questions than answers. That is totally false. Anyone who sat in on almost four weeks of testimony, with over seventy witnesses, credible witnesses I might add, from several judges to other very credible witnesses, would know that the truth is here.”
While a fuller expose documenting the FBI/Anglo-Canadian intelligence behind the King assassination will be documented elsewhere, it is sufficient to note for now that during this period of constant O.J. Simpson trial coverage across all press agencies, hardly a word on these hearings was covered by the media.
David Garrow stepped into the mud early on to slander the family and the court case as a whole saying of the family
“The King youngsters are part of a larger population of American people who need to believe that the assassination of a King or a Kennedy must be the work of mightier forces… Individuals need to see something of a harmony amongst impact and cause. That if something has a large evil effect, it ought to be the result of a huge evil cause”.
By denying the existence of causality, or conspiracy in regards to historical processes, this “world renowned historian” essentially admitted that he is either extremely dumb or a part of the conspiracy himself.
Exhibiting the height of hypocrisy, Garrow said of King’s children in 2009
“I fear we are at the point where the behaviour of the children is doing lasting, indelible damage to King’s reputation”.
Philip Madison Jones, a Hollywood producer and best friend of Dexter King has stated that Garrow’s anti-King family malice is due to the fact that King’s late wife Coretta Scott King refused to put Garrow in charge of a project involving King’s papers. Apparently, Garrow wished to do to King what Edgar Poe’s “official” biography Rufus Griswold did in 1850 [1].
The Most Revolutionary Act 
Makes you think about honesty, integrity and all this. Where can you find it?
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I find a lot of integrity in ordinary people, Aunty. Just not in government or corporate bigwigs.
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I agree, Dr. B. Individuals behave differently in groups, giving rise to the term “mob role”. Some people use the power of the group to cover for their individual acts of inhumanity, as in war or in a riot.
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Correction: “mob rule”.
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They can try and malign that man’s name and legacy all they want, but no one can fault him for what he and others were trying to do. Was their work finished? Of course not, which is why we are where we are today, nowhere! Those who were actually educated and intelligent are either dead or too feeble and elderly to be of much use, and what is coming behind them are most definitely useless and that was also, part of the plan.
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Shelby, MLK’s effect was enduring and did change people’s attitudes, although the lasting effects may be subtle. As I told you, you have inspired me to look into the Rosa Parks incident in 1956 that brought MLK to Alabama to assist the NAACP in ending segregation in schools and on public busses.
I was young then, but I remember separate public bathrooms for “white” and “colored”. I also lived through the 1960s, when public schools were integrated. By then, much social upheaval was going on, but it had been building since the two world wars and the US’ involvement subsequently in Korea and Vietnam. The McCarthy era and fear of Communism created an external enemy for the US, and Castro was the designated enemy.
Another layer involved the smoldering resentment in the South against-not the blacks-but the local real estate and corporate developers, assisted by local government players, to raise taxes to pay for the surge in demand for public services.
Where did the problem start? It’s hard to identify a single source for the fear and resentment that seems to pervade all groups just now, but they share a belief that competition is good.
By the way, I did look for my birth certificate, and you were right. It lists my race as “white,” not even “caucasian”. It substantiates my preference for a pattern-based, rather than dualistic approach to life.
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From everything I’ve read, Katherine, there was no division of ethnicity into “white” and “black” prior to slavery and that it came about to justify dehumanization and degradation (based on skin color) of specific groups of people.
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Dr. B, My birth certificate from Savannah in 1952 says my race is “white”. Shelby is right about that. I also have personal memories of growing up during desegration and how it affected the people in our community, both the long-term residents and the urban escapees from up Nawth.
The US Constitution was a contentious document that divided the thirteen former colonies by the slavery issue, but final decisions were deferred until Lincoln was elected 70 years later and raised tariffs on foreign imports. This exacerbated the division of North and South, since the urban north was heavily industrialized, while the rural South was agricultural, and depended on slave labor to supply the European and American factories with the raw cotton, tobacco and timber that were used for everything from food to clothing to housing, and transportation via shipbuilding and railroads.
“The Robber Barons,” by Matthew Josephson, originally published in 1934, describes how Jay Gould, Leland Stanford, JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and others exploited the stock, investment and settlement opportunities offered by the area of the Louisiana Purchase toward the West Coast, especially after gold was discovered in California. The 1849 gold rush led to great competition to build railroads, using ten mile wide swaths of federal land grants. That led to the Mexican War in about 1850, when Polk was president. The US secured that border and got most of the southwest in the deal. Remember the Alamo? You would if you lived in Texas, where Davy Crockett was one of the sacrificial victims of US expansionism.
But the Robber Barons didn’t have to fight, except in boardrooms and Washington DC. These people profited mightily, but the laborers, while they may not have been slaves, were often immigrants, like Chinese, Irish, and eastern Europeans escaping poverty, famine, or oppression at home.
My other point is slavery goes back a long way and is present in multiple cultures, although different terms may have been used for the systems of human bondage, like “serfs”. Julius Caesar brought slaves as booty from his military campaigns in Gaul. There is human trafficking now, for sex and drugs, sex slavery. The Spanish priests enslaved Incans to work in their mines, if the book “Open Veins of Latin America” is to be believed, by Eduardo Galeano.
In summary, I guess, I believe human society has always had systems of stratification, not always based on color, race, religion, or culture. The terms “white” and “black” are over-simplifications.
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In this society, Shelby, people who insist on telling the truth have to pay the price for it, both before and after they die.
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I am reminded of two conflicting analogies, to wit: “Kites fly highest against the wind”; and “The nail that raises its head gets hammered down.”
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