The Continued Smearing of MLK

This article is dedicated to Jared Taylor, a well known White Nationalist who tweeted today:

It’s Black History Month, formerly called February. Heare’s [sic] some black history for you from a classified 1968 report on MLK. Communist advisors. Foundation funding. All-night orgies. Affair with Joan Baez, which she never denied.

Of course, none of this is even slightly worthwhile news — people don’t celebrate MLK because they view him as an upstanding citizen who lived a flawless personal life, but instead due to his activism and ability to convince the nation to let go of segregation — which Taylor has endorsed, by the way.

The notion of MLK as somebody not of the greatest moral character when it came to his personal life has been around ever since King became a public activist in the 1950s. In 1964, the FBI infamously sent King a letter telling him he had thirty-four days to do some unspecified thing or else the entirety of his personal life would become public. (Speculation of what was being asked of King range from stepping down as leader of the Civil Rights Movement to declining the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded that same year to even killing himself.) The fact that the FBI was so invested in King’s personal life is, in my view, far more damning to them than anything they dug up on King was to him.