It illustrates how the world has changed and how morals also change - likewise, to me, the danger of condemning someone for behaviour of the past with the morality of today.

One the one side MeToo and on the other - CivilRights. Should we condemn someone who helped our species get over the absurd attitude to skin colour if their sexual behaviour was acceptable then but not now?

And can the media be fair to anyone in these simplistic times?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7084749...tin-Luther-King.html

The difference between Asia Argento in comparison to other proponents of the #MeToo movement is that she seems to be the only one, so far, to have had her own dark-side and secrets come under scrutiny.

If true, he sounds like an extreme caricature of a rapacious African American male. So how true is it? Was he any worse than JFK?

In late 1964 — almost a year after the Willard Hotel rape — FBI chiefs finally confronted King over his disturbing actions in an equally chilling manner.

They sent him a compromising tape of his hotel escapades with a letter calling him an ‘evil, abnormal beast’ and warning that ‘your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies’ would be revealed.

It went on: ‘King, there is only one thing left for you to do’, implying that he had to kill himself.
COINTELPRO (portmanteau derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal,[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.[3][4] FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive,[5] including the Communist Party USA,[6] anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement or Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, feminist organizations,[7] the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (such as Puerto Rican independence groups like the Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left.
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The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day, and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."[17]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

A lot of it sounded like he was just having fun...hypocrisy was his biggest crime...being a man of the cloth...and going against I'm guessing what he preached...

...but hey...given half a chance...it was the swinging sixties

It's interesting comparing this recent article with a pre-#MeToo DM story about Martin Luther King. The latest story contains a more damaging twist concerning the FBI's poisonous blackmailing campaign against him.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2407403...ther-King-story.html


One thing the article doesn't reveal is that, apparently, William "Crazy Bill" Sullivan was a strong opponent of Martin Luther King's leadership.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKsullivan.htm