Today, on the anniversary of his assassination, the FBI honors the life, work, & commitment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to justice. pic.twitter.com/WZInYKQx2g
— FBI (@FBI) April 4, 2017
You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
No. I am not.
I am not a historian, and I am not Black, and these days, everyone from David Brooks to Ann Coulter seems determined to show people that he was really one of them.
I was 6 years old when he died, and lived in a place which (I think) still required an operator assisted call to reach the “Lower 48,” so any recollections that I have are entirely from historical documents.
There is plenty of primary documentation of his life, his letters, his speeches, film and video, and I highly recommend that you check it out.
About the only thing that I can say with certainty from what I know of history history is that the FBI under J.Edgar Hoover was a profoundly pernicious organization that aggressively subverted the civil rights of its targets, and that there was never a proper reckoning for their behavior.
I’m inclined to believe that his legacy still permeates the Bureau, and current events would tend to bolster my opinion.
He was born in 1929, not 1919. It would have been his 90th.
D'oh!!!!!!!!