Christian Science Monitor / Yahoo News: FBI letter to Martin Luther King, riddled with abuse, urges suicide (Leave it to the Mainstream Media to turn everything around. Of course we don’t want the FBI doing such things, but is this any worse than today’s Justice Department encouraging a lynch-mob mentality in Ferguson, and trying to railroad a White cop who was only defending himself and the law? A bigger story is that this worshiped paragon, Saint Martin, was quite depraved. Not just “extra-marital affairs,” but doing things like brutally beating up White prostitutes, attested to by Black leaders in his inner circle.)

FBI letter to Martin Luther King, riddled with abuse, urges suicide



The FBI letter to civil rights leader Martin Luther King authorized by J. Edgar Hoover, just released in its uncensored form, is a cautionary tale of abuse of power. But shock over contents also signals how far race relations have come.

The release of a newly discovered, uncensored 1964 letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., urging him, in graphic language, to kill himself, has experts on contemporary race relations pointing to a glass both half empty and half full.

A heavily redacted version of the missive, sent to Dr. King just days before he was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and threatening to expose King’s extra-marital affairs, is well-known to historians. But the full extent of the racist and abusive language had not been available until now. Yale historian Beverly Gage discovered the note in the National Archives while researching a book on J. Edgar Hoover. The New York Times published it on Wednesday. ...

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