Current Events?More and more it's looking like MLK wasn't the saint everyone has always painted him to be.
By The Conversation | Posted June 29, 2019 at 06:15 AM
In a recent article published in Standpoint Magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biographer David Garrow details new information about King he discovered in FBI documents. The most damaging is that King may have witnessed – and encouraged – a sexual assault at a Washington, D.C. hotel in January 1964.
Some historians have cautioned against taking too much stock of Garrow’s findings; the FBI, after all, has a well-known track record of trying to undermine the beloved civil rights leader.
But in the ensuing controversy, one aspect of Garrow’s explosive, 7,800-word article has gone largely overlooked.
Garrow publishes content from FBI files noting that a woman named Dorothy Cotton was King’s “constant paramour.” He also details FBI wiretaps from 1964 noting that King’s wife, Coretta, “berated” him “for not spending enough time alone with her.” At the time of the phone call, according to the FBI files, King was with Dorothy at a hideaway apartment in Atlanta. Garrow, at one point in his piece, calls Cotton “the most important woman in King’s life.”
The other woman: New information comes out about Martin Luther King Jr.'s paramour
What? Isn't this 1968?
Damn, what was IN those mushrooms...........
The present is composed of many things.
1968 looks and feels like a long time ago.
But then again so does 1868... And yet the subject of reparations was never more alive than it is today.
If there's any legitimacy to this biographer's claim that Dorothy cotton was the most important woman in Martin Luther King's life the public is indeed being cheated out of a rich source of information about who the man was and what his personal trials may have been.
This kind of past event is always present.
Jo
Funny you should mention 1868, virtually the exact era of "forty acres and a mule". So your fantasy about "reparatons never more alive than today" kinda wrestled itself to the ground and pistol-whipped itself, leaving itself for the vultures to pick clean in the afternoon sun.
Who the fuck is "Dorothy cotton [sic]"? Aren't you the klown who thinks people don't use contractions? EDIT - no wait, that was "proud boy to be white". Y'all all look alike to me.