[A-List] Martin Luther King, Jr: Visionary, Revolutionary

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Professor Craven's remarks above are disturbing but predictable, given his  
displayed aptitude and tendency to play the ethical police. Using the stock and 
 trade of every professional bourgeois nationalist, the individual Dr. king 
is  torn from history and the historically specific stage of the African 
American  Peoples Movement in which he appears. Professor Craven King is devoid of 
class  and national striving and does not articulate a historical voice behind 
the  Cotton Curtain, against voice of the Minister Malcolm X, who could not 
but  express a more industrial Northern voice and the historic fighting sector 
of the  old Negro Bourgeoisie of this period. 
 
King is condemned for having extra martial sex - from a prostitute at that. 
 
So What! Bill Clinton had sex . . . depending on how one defines sex,  
outside his marriage and this act became more relevant to the bourgeoisie and  their 
petty bourgeoisie nationalist lackey's than the fact that Clinton passed  
legislation that hurt more poor people in America than all the Republican  
Presidents of the last 50 put together. 
 
Dr. King was not the man the bourgeoisie and their minion thought. King was  
subject and sensitive the actual shifting class relations and insurgency of 
the  black masses. King's life spans the most important changes to take place in 
the  African American Peoples Movement during the last century and 
understanding his  shifting role in this process is important. Id Dr. King had chose to 
screw -  have sex, with every woman at the Mustang Ranch, so what. As long as 
individuals  are reduced to other ethical consideration, at the expense of 
class stance and  understanding the historical moment, their is no way for the 
workers to learn  from their experience. 
 
1965 was the critical years. The Watts Rebellion and then Detroit and  Newark 
- 1967, was not lost on King. 
 
"King was a narcissist, a showman, a megalomaniac, a hypocrite full of  
himself." 
 
Really. Dr. King was an Uncle Tom - a historical character, during an era  
when class separation within the black masses was not possible so long as all  
classes were housed together under the iron laws of Jim Crow. I did not  
personally support Kings tactics but I am post Detroit 1967, living under  
conditions of intense industrial concentration and the capacity to fight back as  a 
mass.  
 
King lead an organization, that played a part in forever changing America .  
. . more than the bourgeois nationalist Professor Craven can ever do. How did  
King sex behavior compromise the real African American peoples Movement? How 
. .  .other than in Craven's own twisted mind. 
 
"MLK Day makes me sick . . ." 
 
Really. Where were you at the time Professor Craven . . . still taking part  
in the killing - murder of innocent people on behave of the imperialist? 
 
Look, Professor Craven . . . many workers in America get a day off for this  
holiday, many with pay and no holiday with pay is bad. MLK Day had to be 
fought  for and apparently this means nothing to the ethical police. 
 
Dr. King plays a huge role in the historical process that is the phenomenon  
of the Black Leader in America. Dr. King was murdered because he turned out no 
 to be the man the intelligence agencies for the bourgeoisie thought. Dr. 
King  was murdered because of the person he was and his political stance. 
 
What a tragic article. But then again, when ones sets themselves up as the  
ethical police and the residential professional bourgeois nationalist 
ideologue,  class phenomenon, evolution of the national factor and real history losses  
its meaning. 
 
But then again this is the same man who never repudiated implying I was a  
police agent.
 
If King says "I'm just another nigger..." , so what . . . and actually it  
looks like that is how he was treated. 
 
What a tragic article.



Melvin P. 
 
 
 
Every biography I ever read of J. Edgar Hoover notes that King, who met  
Hoover twice, was very compliant, toned down and "polite" in Hoover's presence.  
Why? Because King, knowing how much was on the line, knowing how much would be  
lost if his own stature was compromised, knowing how much members of the 
Civil  Rights movement trusted him and his leadership, knowing FBI was watching 
his  every move, nonethless allowed himself to be compromised and blackmailed by 
 Hoover and LBJ with his escapades with hookers in various motel rooms. On 
one  tape, a woman says to him "Dr. King, you shouldn't be here" to which King  
replies, "It's okay, tonight I'm just another nigger..." 
 
King was a narcissist, a showman, a megalomaniac, a hypocrite full of  
himself. His message of "non-violence" was exactly what "Mister Charlie" wanted  and 
needed and still embraces as they do all sorts of violence daily to African  
Americans. And his "Negro Bourgeois family" still treats his name as what it  
was--a commodity--for which they still charge huge sums just to use his name 
and  likeness--increasingly on commercials of Fortune 
500 who do all sorts of  ugly violence daily all over the world. 
 
King would not have made a pimple on Malcolm X's (who is never mentioned)  
ass. MLK Day makes me sick and when you see all the reactionaries who embrace it 
 and JKing, it tells you exactly what and whom King served all along--in 
addition  to his excessive ego and self-created personna. 
 
Jim C 
 



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