Was This Martin Luther King's Dream That We Hear So Much About?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7084749/TOM-LEONARD-probes-troubling-truth-shaming-Martin-Luther-King.html

[Zacs-Master]

I'd let due legal proceedings take place before speculating.

If the allegations are proved false, I look forward to your post about discrimination and prejudice.

[mushroom25]

he's not around to defend himself. but even if he was, we're talking about different times, practically a lifetime ago, in a very different world to that being lived now. it's never a good idea to assess the past using today's values - the people living then would not (for instance) be able to imagine #metoo...….

[ToraToraTora]

you're out of order AOG, next you'll be telling us St Mandela was a terrorist. Don't you know it's heresy to raise anything against left wing icons?

[cassa333]

Is it the same sort thing as Princes Diana was a saint who could do no wrong but was in fact a bit of a tart and slept around a bit?

[Old_Geezer]

Many folk have 'feet of clay'. Best judged, if at all, on their overall contribution.

[anotheoldgit]

/// it's never a good idea to assess the past using today's values ///

I can am sure you that yesterdays values never accepted such goings on, more likely to happen with today's values.

[Zacs-Master]

If that's the case, it mustn't have happened then. You're always banging on about the 50s and how it was oh so much better. Surely that was 'yesterday'?

[ichkeria]

This is hardly news is it?
MLK was a randy old so-and-so.
It’s not going to provoke outrage because he died 50 years ago.

[fender62]

there still digging up catholic priest abuse from years ago, old murders
etc.. why should king be exempt, he did some good i hear, so did savil.

[ichkeria]

It will provoke outrage of course because it’s not provoking outrage :-)

[douglas9401]

Looks like he came down from the mounting alright.

[retrocop]

It would appear that the rampant one eyed trouser snake still strikes in this day. :-(

[david small]

The consequences of putting personages upon a pedestal, is that you can see right under their skirt.
The fallibility's of all of us are often exposed when one looks too closely.

[waterboatman]

Well I never!

[david small]

Surely you must have done once or twice boatman:)

[waterboatman]

:o}

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// If that's the case, it mustn't have happened then. You're always banging on about the 50s and how it was oh so much better. Surely that was 'yesterday'? ///

Yes, but that was America, but not in yesterday's England.

[carolegif]

This was common knowledge in the 1960’s. He was ina motel room with another woman when he was shot!

[Zacs-Master]

‘Yes, but that was America, but not in yesterday's England’

For Funks Sake. I actually believe you think you’re being clever with these facile answers. You’re not.

[Peter Pedant]

// King’s womanising reputation isn’t new. //

I'd let due legal proceedings take place before speculating.

can we be clear please that suing a dead person is a non starter

this was the central difficulty about the Saville allegations - he wasnt there to defend himself and it was all a bit er one sided