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re: 50 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:38 am to 13SaintTiger
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:38 am to 13SaintTiger
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shite I just drove through Memphis not too long ago. Scary
The OT sure knows how to drive a joke into the ground
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Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:39 am to stout
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He was a communist, a drunk, and a whore monger.
You are like one of those people who claims Mother Teresa was a horrible, greedy, fame hungry person and pulls up any dirt possible on her to "prove" it
My goodness MLK was CLEARLY a great person who did great things for millions, he wasn't an angel, he wasn't perfect, but he also was a great man
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:39 am to stout
your point is? it doesn't negate any of his work to try to bring races together.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:41 am to Mr. Hangover
Forty acres and a ban
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:43 am to stout
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1. His name wasn’t Martin Luther. It was Michael. It was decided Martin Luther had a more prominent ring to it, so he went by that. He never legally changed his name. To this day, he lived and died as Michael King.
For crying out loud...his Dad changed both his name and his son's names to Martin Luther from Michael long before the Civil Rights Movement started. I think MLK Jr. was a kid when this happened.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:44 am to stout
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King would often use church donations to have drunken sex parties, where he would hire two to three white prostitutes, occasionally beating them brutally. This has also been reported by the FBI agents who monitored King. King was married with four children.
Yikes
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:44 am to stout
Interesting if true
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:44 am to Cap Crunch
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The OT sure knows how to drive a joke into the ground
I knew I "made it" on here when prominent posters started using jokes I made weeks before on me.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:47 am to Cap Crunch
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The OT sure knows how to drive a joke into the ground
Just how I like to drive your mom into the ground
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:48 am to stout
low effort, reads like buzzfeed 3/10
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:48 am to Tiger1242
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My goodness MLK was CLEARLY a great person who did great things for millions, he wasn't an angel, he wasn't perfect, but he also was a great man
Was his message great and did he come along at a time when this country needed him most? Yes
Do I wish today's race baiters would practice what King preached? Yes
Was he a great man...meh...hard to say that knowing the faults I previously listed. They obviously cast doubts to his character. I feel like too many people automatically call him great without thinking too deeply about his faults too because they don't want to be "that person"
Why does King get a pass for his faults but others throughout history don't?
If roles were reversed we would be renaming streets and taking down statues of him in today's society.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:51 am to stout
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Was he a great man...meh...hard to say that knowing the faults I previously listed. They obviously cast doubts to his character. I feel like too many people automatically call him great without thinking too deeply about his faults too because they don't want to be "that person"
I genuinely think you'd like the HBO doc that came out this week about the last few year's of King's life. It discusses many of his faults and struggles.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:51 am to GetCocky11
Thanks. I'll check it out
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:53 am to stout
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King would often use church donations to have drunken sex parties, where he would hire two to three white prostitutes, occasionally beating them brutally.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:56 am to GetCocky11
His mama call him Mike, I'm a call him Mike
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:58 am to GetCocky11
Martin Luther Kangz Jr
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:04 am to stout
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Thanks. I'll check it out
I also think talk of his supposed infidelity has no impact on his life's work. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:17 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:29 am to GetCocky11
Yeah it was James Earl Ray....
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 8:30 am
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:35 am to GetCocky11
Meh. I am tired of hearing about Marty King.
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