Comment: FBI should have spilled the beans on King and spared us the BS aura around King.
If the dirty secrets on King had been released, two things could have happened, both better than what followed.
1. Fall of King, seen by the public as a degenerate and hypocrite. After all, King didn’t just lead a movement but postured as a saint-prophet. He was acting all holy-shmoly and was full of himself. This was all BS as he was a loutish punk in real life. The problem is less King as a political figure(as black demands during the Civil Rights Era were sound and legit by the rules of US Constitution) than as a ‘spiritual’ figure whose utopian ‘dream’ is something we should atone for and aspire to. But how did King live out this ‘dream’? He cheated, had drunken orgies, and acted like Snoopy Dog Doggy in GIRLS GONE WILD videos. The only reason he went to the mountaintop was to bang some ho’s.
2. King would have survived the scandal but would have led as a political operator than as some holier-than-thou prophet of the hour. That would have been better because Race Relations were far more complicated than a case of ‘bad racist whites’ oppressing ‘good peace-loving blacks marching with King’. While it’s true that American Society withheld full equality to blacks, the reasons on the white side were compelling: Social equality with blacks would lead to biological inequality whereby stronger and more aggressive blacks would bully, attack, rob, assault, rape, and murder whites. So, BOTH sides had legit reasons in the racial conflict. In a law, Segregation was social compensation for the the fact that evolution made blacks the stronger and more aggressive race. Segregation was Compensatory Parity. If whites are deficient in physical power to defend themselves from blacks, then they need social and legal compensation to provide them with extra security against tough-n-rough Negroes. It’s like NY has Stop-and-Frisk and spends lots of money to keep the Negroes down. Financial power offers Compensatory Parity for Jews and whites in NY against angry and vicious Negroes who tore that city apart in the 70s and 80s.
If King had been a political leader with real demands(without all that pompous holy talk), the issues might have been handled more honestly, and a sounder deal might have been struck between whites and blacks.
But the holy aura around King disseminated the BS that all these peace-loving blacks were demanding a bit of justice under the leadership of messiah King.
One good thing about Malcolm X was he was willing to put all the cards on the table and talk honestly about the problems between whites and blacks. He was angry(understandable) but also forthright. In contrast, MLK was always a sermonizing punk who was so full of hisself.
We need to deal with the Real Negro, not the Magic Negro. King-ism mucked up race relations with the sacralization of the Negro. We can’t think back to the Civil Rights Era with a clear mind because of the Cult of King. It’s like Christians cannot think clearly about the story of Jesus since He is seen as Son of God. King has been made into some kind of holy figure in American mythos, but he was just some punkass mofo.
If King had been exposed as a ‘gangsta’, he might have led a movement as a hard-nosed political figure than a holier-than-thou pompousard. And there would have been less quasi-spiritual BS associated with wild-ass Negroes.
His message would have been, “My folks want a piece of the pie, honkey!! So, what you gonna give us, and then we can talk some more, honkey.”
If King had come down to ground and acted more like George Jefferson, then racial relations and politics would have had more clarity, honesty, and sense.
Maybe we should blot out King from all history books and documentaries and replace him with George Jefferson. Instead of all that pompous talk, it will have Jefferson giving us some straight talk.
