I have never managed to suss out Martin Luther King. I yearn to believe the noble legend but fear that it is something of a fantasy.His beliefs did not apparently accept the bodily resurrection of Jesus - he was very much out of an extremely liberal background in the manner of his theological education.
I am also concerned to learn that: on Jan. 31, 1977, Coretta Scott King obtained a federal court order sealing for 50 years 845 pages of FBI records about her husband, "because its release would destroy his reputation!"
Furthermore, one of King's closest friends, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, acknowledges in his autobiography that King had a "weakness for women" .
In yesterday's programme on BBC 2, J. Edgar Hoover, bête noire of the liberal left, was portrayed as having decided to investigate King's many communist links.
In this, the programme was somewhat misleading as the primary source for investigating King was the Attorney General and arch liberal, Robert Kennedy - puts a rather different emphasis on matters, does it not?
That MLK achieved many positives is beyond argument but we must take care not beatify the man who had feet firmly mired in clay.
Roll on 2027. I wonder if I shall live to learn the truth?
