Comment by dyauspitr
2 hours ago
I’ve never really consider sexual impropriety problematic in someone I look up to unless it’s pedophilia or rape.
2 hours ago
I’ve never really consider sexual impropriety problematic in someone I look up to unless it’s pedophilia or rape.
Elsewhere in the comments here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr (David Garrow), according to this article [1]:
"The most damaging memos describe King witnessing a rape in a hotel room. Instead of stopping it, handwritten notes in the file say he encouraged the attacker to continue."
1 - https://theconversation.com/im-an-mlk-scholar-and-ill-never-...
He was a Christian minister though, and many of us value him not just for his contributions to civil rights, but to the conversation of how God wants us to treat one another.
Well said.
He was brave and an incredible orator. But not exactly a paragon of virtue, someone who can lead by example, which we really need at the highest rungs of power.