I loved all of your useless fact tweets, but your tweet about MLK today was over the top, especially today.

Here it is:



Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women.



Though this was not racist, despite what people were saying, it was in extremely poor taste.

Discuss & Happy MLK day.

1/18/2010 8:14:08 PM

it is a (relatively substantiated) fact of an OMG nature, I see no problem with it. Plenty of bullshit gets spewed on Twitter, I find it disingenuous to pick on this specific topic.


Either way, Malcolm X >> MLK

[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 8:21 PM. Reason : we're not India, we don't need sacred cows.]

1/18/2010 8:15:14 PM

wtf, it got deleted for that???

You have to be kidding me.

I figured they had at least called him a nigger or something.

1/18/2010 8:18:50 PM

Where do they get their facts from?

I googled the fact, "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women" and, besides the omgfacts references, it only shows up on racist websites, and it's an incomplete quote. The one the racist websites are using is:

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third."

1/18/2010 8:47:16 PM

That third bitch shouldve put out.

1/18/2010 9:32:58 PM

^ Maybe she was just into SM.

1/18/2010 9:35:30 PM

"define adultery"

1/18/2010 9:36:12 PM

Martin Luther King was another public figure that was assassinated for the martyr effect. As the evidence below shows, the evidence of King's corruption, womanizing and Communist sympathies, we was becoming more a liability to the Civil Rights agenda than an asset. It was only a matter of time before King's reputation would self-destruct. By engineering his death and blaming it on a supposed racist, the Powers That Be could turn MLK into a hero. With the assistance of controlled judges, they could have his records sealed and make sure the public would not have access to the real Martin Luther King.

MARTIN LUTHER KING--THE MAN BEHIND THE MEDIA MASK
Every year America endures the same propaganda media-blitz on Martin Luther King day--the false portrayal of the “Reverend” King as an American hero; a saintly, self-sacrificing religious martyr for the cause of civil rights. He was everything but that and certainly no hero that any American should look up to. I have written extensively about the defense of true civil rights, no one can accuse me of hating the cause. I say this be way of introduction in anticipation of the fury my remarks will generate among the media attempting to perpetrate this growing myth upon American culture. Everything about Martin Luther King is a fraud. Here are the real facts.

2) PLAGIARISM IN HIS DOCTORAL THESIS: The most complete analysis of King’s chronic plagiarism in his academic career was done by Gerry Harbison, professor of Chemistry at University of Nebraska: “In 1988, the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project made a discovery that shocked it to its core. The Project, a group of academics and students, had been entrusted by Coretta Scott King with the task of editing King's papers for publication. As they examined King's student essays and his dissertation, they gradually became aware that King was guilty of massive plagiarism - that is, he had copied the words of other authors word-for-word, without making it clear that what he was writing was not his own. The Project spent years uncovering the full extent of King's plagiarism. In November 1990, word leaked to the press, and they had to go public. The revelations caused a minor scandal and then were promptly forgotten.” Suppressed would be a more accurate description. The National Endowment for the Humanities actively suppressed the story in preparation for celebrating King. Its then director was Lynne Cheney, wife of the current Vice President. For the full story see Prof. Harbison’s website: http://chem-gharbison.unl.edu/mlk/plagiarism.html

3) COMMUNIST BACKGROUND AND CONTACTS: It appears that King established an early liaison with the American Communist Party and sought to create civil unrest in support of the revolution. His own biographer, David J. Garrow admitted that king once privately “described himself as a Marxist.” King constantly surrounded himself with Communists, hired them, and even went to great lengths to keep them on through secret relationships. King’s personal secretary in the 1950s was communist and homosexual Bayard Rustin. According to Sen. Jesse Helms, “King was repeatedly warned about his associations with known Communists by friendly elements in the Kennedy Administration and the Department of Justice [DOJ] (including strong and explicit warning from President Kennedy himself). King took perfunctory and deceptive measures to separate himself from the Communists [Stanley David Levison and Hunter Pitts O’Dell ] against whom he was warned. He continued to have close and secret contacts with at least some of them after being informed and warned of their background, and he violated a commitment to sever his relationships with identified Communists.”

4) IMMORAL AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR: Dr. King had an ample reputation as a philanderer and abuser of women of ill repute. The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover had run surveillance on King and his entourage for years attempting to gather data on his Communist connections. While the Bureau did surveill King’s attendance at Communist meetings, but most of the surveillance records show an extreme preoccupation after hours with illicit sex. In deference to King’s usefulness in promoting a national holiday for civil rights, US Federal judge John Lewis Smith, Jr. ordered all the FBI records sealed up in the National Archives for 50 years (till 2027). When I was Executive Editor of Conservative Digest, I called retired Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and asked him what was in the evidence locked away. His answer surprised me. He said there were approximately 15 file cabinets of evidence on King--14 of them were full of recordings and transcripts of his illicit relationships with prostitutes. Only one file cabinet contained evidence of his Communist relationships.

Even former co-workers have blown the whistle on King’s scurrilous conduct. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, in his book, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down, King spent his last night in the motel having an immoral liason with three women and then beat one of the woman in the morning before he was shot. Assistant Director of the FBI Charles D. Brennan wrote a letter to Sen. John P. East (R-NC) in which he stated that King's conduct consisted of "orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women." The FBI surveillance records covering his first night in Stockholm, Sweden, where he was to receive the Noble Peace Prize, document that his only interest was how to secure prostitutes for he and his entourage. An orgy followed. King’s surveillance and wiretaps were personally authorized by then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. If these allegations are true, this man should never have been put forward as a national hero. Yes, I am aware that other national heroes have had there weaknesses, but King’s conduct borders on a Clinton-like sexual addiction.


PART 4: THE JAMES EARL RAY RIFLE

The only basis for James Earl Ray's imprisonment is his confession, one offered under coercion by his court-appointed attorney and immediately retracted. There exists no evidence at all that James Earl Ray was the killer of Martin Luther King.

James Earl Ray is now trying to avail himself of a Tennessee law which allows the re-opening of his case in the face of new investigative technologies that might exhonorate him.

Even worse, when the evidence of wrongdoing is really hot, colluding judges will seal the evidence for 50+ years in official archives to make sure that by the time the public finds out about it, all the guilty parties will be out of office or dead. This is precisely why the FBI files on Martin Luther King were sealed prior to the debate on whether King would be worthy to honor in a national holiday. According to a former Asst. Director of the FBI, who had first-hand knowledge of the facts, 14 of the 15 file cabinets full of the sealed surveillance files document Reverend King’s chronic pornography and prostitution habits, including his raunchy activities while in Sweden accepting his Nobel Prize. The other file cabinet full of evidence traces his connections to the far left and the Communist Party. Had the public known of this information, King would have been disgraced rather than honored. What we need is a piece of legislation making it a crime to classify as secret any evidence of a crime committed by government officers or agent. But then again, as long as only government insiders are allowed to view and judge the contents of classified material, the public will never know the truth--except through a leak by some patriotic government employee--which is exactly what this kind of legislation is trying to preclude.

http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/MLK.shtml

1/18/2010 9:47:14 PM

that is a gorgeous tin-foil helmet site

1/18/2010 9:58:42 PM

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"Either way, Malcolm X >> MLK"

YOU'RE SO ALT FOR SAYING THAT, albeit incorrect.

1/18/2010 10:22:32 PM

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"King’s conduct borders on a Clinton-like sexual addiction"

This sounds super objective.

1/18/2010 10:25:51 PM

1234 1234 rock facts?

1/18/2010 10:55:47 PM

^^^ Meh, do your thing man. I base that on what I read in Malcolm X's autobiography and what I've read about MLK. I'm not saying I agree with Malcolm X, but he strikes me as a man of greater intellectual integrity than Martin Luther King.

Personal opinion, you're free to believe whatever you want amigo.

1/18/2010 11:10:49 PM

I thought everybody knew that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was by no means perfect.

I also thought everybody knew that you get a fairly generous free pass once you get assassinated.

I mean, we don't even really talk shit about people who get regular murdered. Cheat at cards and get shot in the face? But you were such a good guy! How could this have happened?!?!

^Yeah, I kinda agree.

[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 11:13 PM. Reason : sss]

1/18/2010 11:11:17 PM

^^I just prefer the one that wasn't super racist I guess.

1/18/2010 11:13:45 PM

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"I also thought everybody knew that you get a fairly generous free pass once you get assassinated."

Quick test, would you feel the same way if the George Wallace assassination had been successful? You wouldn't? Then no, it should be obvious that assassination does not buy you a free pass and martyrdom only exists in the eyes of believers.




^ you have obviously not read much about Malcolm X and his post Hajj views.

[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM. Reason : Wait, wasn't Malcolm X assassinated too? Why the hate for him?]

1/18/2010 11:15:14 PM

King's alleged love of whores doesn't really impinge on his very true words regarding civil rights though.

People still hold Thomas Jefferson up as a bastion of the American spirit even though he owned slaves, and raped them. Who knows what skeletons are in the close of other great Americans? At this point, it would be naive to assume that the megalomaniacal personality that often drives great leaders generally means they aren't going to have the most together personal lives.

You can literally make a list a mile long of people like this. From John McCain, John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, David Letterman, and maybe even Jesus... do you think washing their feet was REALLY the only thing he did with whores?

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"Wait, wasn't Malcolm X assassinated too? Why the hate for him?] "

Probably because he advocated for violent uprising in support of civil rights. Whitey would never let someone like that get respect.

[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 11:26 PM. Reason : ]

1/18/2010 11:25:05 PM

Jesus you people really need to read your history. Malcolm X was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam who were angry at him for renouncing the concept of black superiority after he completed his pilgrimage to Mecca and converted to Sunni Islam.

There was also a long standing feud between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad which likely lead to his death.


Either way, it is a pretty good refutation of the concept that assassination automatically means we leave your legacy alone.

1/18/2010 11:30:10 PM

I realize he renounced racist sentiments.

MLK didn't have them in the first place.

1/18/2010 11:40:32 PM

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"Wait, wasn't Malcolm X assassinated too? Why the hate for him?"

Because he was Malcolm X. People have built him up to be the most dangerous black man EVAR!

A lot of people don't even know he was assassinated, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of those that do don't consider it his fault for mingling with the wrong people.

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"Either way, it is a pretty good refutation of the concept that assassination automatically means we leave your legacy alone."

Sorry, I should have put an exception in there for most black people. MLK, Jr. was a special case.

1/18/2010 11:41:05 PM

I preferred Malcolm IX

1/18/2010 11:43:26 PM

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"People still hold Thomas Jefferson up as a bastion of the American spirit even though he owned slaves, and raped them. "

Thomas Jefferson did not rape his slaves. What he did would be more in line with having relations with people he "employed" than anything else.

1/18/2010 11:50:45 PM

^Human beings as property legally can't consent or not consent to sex. So, even if a romantic affair ensued, it's still rape since one of the parties owned the other.

1/18/2010 11:59:55 PM

they are back now, FYI

1/19/2010 12:06:20 AM

^^^
Read Bridget's post

It's extremely unlikely too that the slave had a healthy romantic relationship with jefferson. At the very least, it would be a Stockholm Syndrome type of situation.

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"Jesus you people really need to read your history. Malcolm X was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam who were angry at him for renouncing the concept of black superiority after he completed his pilgrimage to Mecca and converted to Sunni Islam. There was also a long standing feud between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad which likely lead to his death."

The problem is that due to the smear campaign against X, you can't bring him up without certain people flipping out. Nothing else matters besides that.

I guess though you can't change that mentality by embracing it...

[Edited on January 19, 2010 at 12:10 AM. Reason : ]

1/19/2010 12:07:57 AM

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"I realize he renounced racist sentiments. MLK didn't have them in the first place."

He may have, he may not have. We really don't know because the cult of MLK prevents us from speaking any ill of the man, just as the cult of Gandhi prevents us from discussing his racism towards blacks or his occasional misogyny.

I don't think that many would argue that Malcolm X's early racism to be remotely unjustified though.

1/19/2010 9:02:42 AM

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"^Human beings as property legally can't consent or not consent to sex. So, even if a romantic affair ensued, it's still rape since one of the parties owned the other."

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"^^^ Read Bridget's post It's extremely unlikely too that the slave had a healthy romantic relationship with jefferson. At the very least, it would be a Stockholm Syndrome type of situation."

yeah, i understand/have always understood those arguments

and I stand by my point

I'm saying I don't agree with calling it "rape" if it was not physically forced

psychology is a sonofabitch and it makes all of us do all kinds of things

but I do not believe that Jefferson forcibly raped (perhaps I should of said that... like it mattered) anyone

[Edited on January 19, 2010 at 12:04 PM. Reason : .]

1/19/2010 12:02:23 PM