"King: A Life": New Bio Details FBI Spying & How MLK's Criticism of Malcom X Was Fabricated
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2023
- We speak in depth with journalist Jonathan Eig about his new book, King: A Life, the first major biography of the civil rights leader in more than 35 years, which draws on unredacted FBI files, as well as the files of the personal aide to President Lyndon Baines Johnson, to show how Johnson and others partnered in the FBI’s surveillance of King and efforts to destroy him, led by director J. Edgar Hoover. Eig also interviewed more than 200 people, including many who knew King closely, like the singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte. The book has also drawn attention for its revelation that King was less critical of Malcolm X than previously thought.
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It seems like J. Edgar Hoover is one of the most evil men that ever walked the earth.
Yes, I think so too.
You can feel the Satan in him
Not Surprised.
he was truly despicable and sinful
Many more this was a systematic problem in the govt the USA govt upholds racism because it's a part of the American fabric from the beginning and needed to keep the whites unified from having a civil war. A permanent black bottom class keeps whites unified by having a permanent bottom class that they can blame for all society ills
It could be plainly stated Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were killed after they both changed and expanded their ideologies.
Yep killed by the same people who were bailing out BLM rioters three years ago. Division is always their MO and go to
(Beware using "change" so loosely, i.e. expansion = addition ≠ subtraction. THEY didn't change; their appeal to WHITE PEOPLE was beginning to change.)
Absolutely!
Especially the antiwar stance they both took.
Yep. They were killed because of their power to unite the working class against capitalism.
And still, Hoover is honored in this country. Also, the more I learn about Haley the more disappointed I am. I’m almost ashamed I ever respected him.
Haley lost all cool points with me, what a lying Sambo
I still like to believe that Hoover and all the devils that followed his racist deeds in this stolen land, will burn eternally. That justice continues to bring me joy.
AND HOOVER WAS BLACK PASSING WHITE,,AND MANY KNEW THIS.EVEN THOSE HE WORKED WITH,,,
Hoover was a total SCUMBAG. Just like the sleaze who wrote that EVIL letter.
@@arturoj.castro433Annhilated.
since they Aired out King then they need to stop playing games and Expose Hoover do all his terrible deeds to everyone.
They never Will because it Will expose the extensive level of surveillance that the Government places upon people they consider enemy combatants.
Absolutely!
How did they do that
Hoover had the dirt on the entire government and some suspicious mob stances. Can't expose him. The whole country might fall apart if all his dirt got exposed.
He will be exposed when he has to stand before the real courts of heaven.
Malcolm X is finally getting the recognition he deserves after so many years, the best part is how Black People kept his Legacy Alive if it wasn't for them he could have easily become another Forgotten Part of History swept under the rugs no joke.
What I realized is Malcom X was more dangerous to the establishment then any other black figure, his last speech the bullet or the ballot was the draw.
@@thegunner971
Believe it or not, MLK was killed because he began to move more toward separation. In a 1967 video interview, he made a very damning statement about American society and even the white Americans that famously marched with him in Selma.
@@thegunner971 Now black people have been voting for the same people since the 60s and their lives are worse in every way because of it
Brother Malcolm (R.I.P) and Brother Medger Evers (R.I.P).
Malcolm's words cant so easily be manipulated into fake agendas. The man litterally said there is no difference between democrats and Republicans. Didnt he said the black mans greatest enemy is the liberal? Hes was right af. It will always be up to black folk to keep malcolm alive. The powers that be cant let those words run rampant.
I will admit, I've done exactly what Amy discusses at the beginning, which is put MLK Jr on such a pedestal that he doesn't get to be a human with flaws & doubts.
This interview really humanized him, & amazingly that also makes his efforts even more heroic. Coping with depression, hospitalized, targetted by foes & friends...& yet MLK Jr kept putting one foot in front of the other to clear a path every one of us can follow. Amazing human being who sacrificed everything for his vision of justice. Case in point, he didn't live to see his 40th birthday. But his work, his words & his vision will live forever.
Wonderful interview, thanks so much Amy!
I'm deeply saddened to hear of RFK's approval of the surveillance of King. It's a blemish on his memory and the country.
I’m not surprised at all!
I saw a documentary saying RFK allowed it because he needed Hoover to cover John Kennedys tracks for one of Jack's many affairs.
Hoover said he would do it but only if RFK allowed him to wiretap King
Never, under any circumstance, trust a Kennedy.
This whole mf a blemish. I hate when ppl pretend they live in a country of angels when me and my ppl were brought here on ships. It's not a blemish. It's the true nature and don't treat it otherwise. We tire of that.
what was he gonna not approve a security threat you dont know how Americas system works hop in that vessel and your gotten
knew most of this in the 80's...why do people laugh off claims of spying etc from political figures these days?
Ignorance!
Because they glorify them. How could the most perfect person be spied on?
Because we live in the real world " a lot of people , don't
I have no idea, if you try to tell your friends about things like this you just get called a conspiracy theorist or whatever
Knew about it too.
25:48 Now that I have grown older, I realize that that both Dr. King and brother Malcolm X were modern day prophets. It's really too bad hat the powers to be of their day were too arrogant, 25:48 ignorant,😢 and power driven to to realize the messages that they were sent here to tell us. Had they listened, our entire environment in this country would be so different. Rest in power Dr. King🕊️🕊️🤍🤍. Rest in power brother Malcolm.🕊️🕊️🤍🤍
And Trump is the modern day equivalent of King. The FBI hasn't changed.
@@Rick_Riff HOW DARE YOU! in no uncertain terms is that orange illiterate buffoon anything like Dr. King. That orange bringer of hate and violence is not even worth the gum beneath Dr. King's shoes. Dr. King was a great man and so was Malcom X!
They're still like this. Nothing has changed.
They were right! what about Vietnam?
@@Rick_Riffwoah. You're putting a career white collar, lying cheat conman in the same category of MLK? Nuts
The FBI has always spied on independent leaders
Echos of Macarthism.
Rest in peace Dr. Martin Luther King.
Rest in peace, Malcolm X.
They were victims of their own government, like Assange and many others.
Thanks for this excellent video
Democracy Now , an independent and brave beam in the sea of corrupt news.
Don't ever compare Assange with Dr King. Assange received his information by email. Where's the fight for justice in that....
Where do you think Julian Assange is from? I'll give you 3 guesses and a hint. Hint - he isn't from the US. Assange is also a right wing head of a hacking organization who decided to politically support the same people who then turned on him. They are not the same and shame on you for even attempting to make the argument that there is some sort of equivalency.
Thank you Dr Martin Luther King 🏆👑🏆 and MalcolmX +all our great elders & Ancestors🙏🏽
The people that investigate conspiracies have known this for over 30 years, it's about time the media catches up
You mean the Alex Jones types? Stop the 🧢 😂🤡
@@mostbased
Alex Jones took real conspiracies and made them unbelievable, do you really think our government does not conspire?
They knew they just decided to let it out now they have always known...Hell, they were the ones who came up with the negative connotations of King and Malcolm X.
@@mostbased put the crack pipe down 👇😂🤡
It's about time media had the courage.
DemocracyNow has been front line with telling the true story of MLK as well as Malcolm X
And WE are supposed to believe these devils have changed on ONE generation?🤣
Even MLK stated that even the white people that marched with him in Selma didn't care about ending systemic racism. Stating that he realized their support was slargely what people call "virtue signalling" today.
They haven’t changed in 6,000 years and won’t change until the are made last
I think they have for the most part. I think we have mixed cultures for the better. Let me put it another way. Snoop and martha stewart are friends and business partners, ice cube and ice t are household names, and eddie murphy is dr doolittle. 30 years ago, snoop was on trial for murder, ice t made cop killer, ice cube wrote death certificate, and eddie was mr delirious. My point is if they still were devils, nothing would have changed the last 30 years.
@@kumarg3598 You are forgetting that the examples you gave are getting old too. Now you have people calling a whole race devils and thinking it's supposed to be fine.
Maybe people treat you like devils because you treat them like devils
THAT PART💥💯👆🏾
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
So grateful for your research and reports. It is important to be aware of how Power can so easily corrupt. We must watch that we ourselves do not become corrupt. Such an important responsibility.
I don't think MLK was the only thing Alex Haley lied about !
He wasn’t sadly.
Nope. Roots was totally fake
In Roots he wrote that white people actually went into Africa and rounded up slaves. White people came to the coast to pick up slaves, they never captured us. Our own fellow Africans caught and delivered us to the ships.
Gentle souls always suffer. Thank you for your sacrifices, Dr. King. You were both human and extraordinary. Your suffering was not in vain. Many of us strive to follow your example of social justice and activism.
Gentle soul? You might want to look Dr. King up. He wasn't the same guy in his personal life as what you were sold in classrooms. Don't praise people who put their hands on women
He was a socialist or rather a communist
@@Markus-yk6ioTHAT'S A LIE ,YOU ARE OKAY WITH A HOLOCAUST THAT NEVER HAPPENED 😅
SO U LOOK THAT UP? KIDDOS TROUBLE MAKER.😊
@@andrejamison2723 And what is wrong with that? Do you not like equity? Do you not believe all people deserve the basic needs of life, including work and housing? Or do you think that some people are more equal than others?
@@Markus-yk6ioName me a perfect leader in the last 200 years? I’ll wait……Sure enough King was fund of having women outside of his marriage. But he remained without scandal and outside kids
"There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually" (1964 Nobel lecture) Thank you Dr King
"...The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually"
Money is the root of evil because Homo Sapiens is just another dumb, brutal animal on this planet. It's about the animalistic need to care for one's own and no other. Humans are like dogs: we're pack animals. We only care about our pack and no others.
Homo Sapiens = Stupid animals.
True! Even more so nowadays. Maybe I'm wrong but there are seemingly no big artists or thinkers anymore. I don't know why, maybe they are just surpressed but it would be more eerie if there aren't just anymore by themselves.
Most of them were NEVER human so how can we feel they were actually moral?
@@victoriacarter905 I couldn't tell tbh. Yet I'm amazed at the big steps taken in science, without ever considering how any particular "progress" is never questioned beforehand. Is it necessary ? How will it fit into our laws ? What changes will it introduce in society ? Esp nowadays, with IA, quantum computing, cloning, etc.
@@yeswellfrombrittany6907Valuing intelligence over wisdom is a recipe for disaster.
MLK also met with Elijah Muhammad in 1966....very profound meeting
Exactly!!
True.
He's going to say what the New Black Media has been saying all along..."we coming to get our check". I can't wait to see this documentary. Good interview, Mrs Amy.
It better be in there or the entire thing is illegitimate.
Thank YOU for this Amy and Jonathan! 💜
This is all because reparations was just "too much" to give to those who built this nation.
🇺🇸is our reparation.
@@IAm-wu2ej
Nah. America is captivity.
@@J-Hue So why keep coming here? There is an entire country in Africa that was created so people who were in The US against their will could leave but everyone agreed the US is better than living in Africa
@@Markus-yk6io
Can we have coffee ☕️ sometime?
@@eb4686 Sure. I'm in Liberia. All of you are welcome to come join me
A man on the right side of morality, justice, peace and equality, we appreciate your efforts and despair that some things don’t change for the betterment of humanity.
It’s pathetic to realize the country hasn’t changed much
Yes it is. Sad and shameful
Martin admitted he shouldve took some of Malcolm's approach. When he said he feels he led his people into a burning building he was saying that the approach he took was too soft and not and didnt worout as he thought and he wished he wouldve took more of a rebel stance with more fight.
Where did Dr King say that? His non-violent approach did work out. King's movement resulted in the Civil Rights Act.
and yet US schools are more segregated than ever before and we are still seeing a concerted effort to disenfranchize Black voters…
I disagree totally with your interpretation of the burning building statement.
Johnson grew to resent King after his speech that opposed the Vietnam War. LBJ felt that he gave King a "victory" by signing off on Civil rights legislation and the Vietnam speech was a betrayal. For Johnson, the final straw was King's proposed Poor Peoples' March on Washington. This march was designed to mobilize poor people of all ethnicities and Johnson felt that this undermined his social policies.
🤔interesting.
The survilance has gotten so invasive and millon fold since those times. We all should feel wary with the whole idiologycal aparathus of state. Thanks for doing such terric work and interview.
The fundamental REASON that private citizens did NOT come forward
regarding the FBI surveillance of private citizens
WAS the FBI surveillance of private citizens.
This answer is NOT a tautology.
In a word: ............... Intimidation
In another word:..... Fear
Great comment.
King was moving in the direction of Malcolm which became obvious by his 1967 speeches
Dr King’s (R.I.P) tone after he came to Chicago because he had the opportunity to say with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (R.I.P) but that part gets excluded.
No he wasn't
You have that backwards.
He was not. Malcolm X was moving in the direction of MLK. Martin Luther King Jr., on the other hand, began speaking against capitalism and was promoting democratic socialism, labor unions, and universal basic income for all when he was assassinated.
King's kosher handlers wouldn't have liked that
All I know is that when this 56 yo white man watches Dr. King's last speech....it makes me cry like a kid.
that's all you have to say?
That's gay
@@mariejane1567 Calm down Shaniqua
@@Markus-yk6io
K mark.
@@eb4686 Shouldn't you be in the streets begging for Pinky to give you some money because 200 years ago someone similiar to someone you saw was a slave once?
Jonathan is inspirational the way he speaks about King. An amazing journalist who speaks so eloquently and truthfully about such an amazing activist!
King is indeed such a moral compass of US on domestic and foreign affairs. He showed up the immoral but powerful, who had done so much harm to America.
Unfortunately, that immorality pointed out by King persists in American domestic and foreign affairs today.
It is time time to admit that democracy is now a true chanel to open people eyes.
Black Power Media tore into this biography and had some valid critiques.
What is the name of the video?
Hello MAGA bot. Racist white revisionist history much?
How come people never talk about what happened with x when he came back from pilgrimage .. he changed some of his views. They only ever give a watered down version of the history
Because it doesn’t fit the narrative about Brother Malcolm (R.I.P) he was more complex then he was given credit for.
Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. Alex Haley (1921-92), the writer of Roots and biographer of Malcolm X, was a 33rd-degree mason in the same order. Enough said.
Facts.
Also military trained and hold top secret military classifications.
It's so crazy... This perfectly describes exactly what's going on in my life as we speak or type... no doubt about it... these ppl are sick 🤮 no doubt... Society as a whole is so slow to real life
Democracy Now and Amy Goodman are the BEST at finding out the truth and getting it to us. Great work on this still important subject.
The truth comes out years later, after the damage has already been done. SMH
Please.This ain't the truth. The rabbit hole goes deep &dark.
@@angelabachert7738 I know, but it's a little part of the truth. I never heard this being mentioned before. Also REAL truth isn't allowed on this Tube platform anymore. If you want a DEEPER documentary you have to go outside this Tube. For one, I NEVER knew they were this close with each other, I grew up believing that they never communicated this well, well now look!
Wonderful interview. Understanding the relevance of MLK's life in today's world is as important as the work he accomplished then.
America needs to right all the wrong it has done to Foundational Black Americans. America can start with reparations for the descendants of USA chattel slavery. It's the right thing to do. B1
Great Reporting Amy & A great in-depth investigative writing of Dr. Martin L. King life. Great work, thank you. I have several books written on the life of Dr. King and I will add this one to my collection, Jonathan Eig, great work and commentary on his life!!
Have you ever read a book that was written by Dr. Martin L. King himself?
Reparations! You forgot he was pushing for reparations for foundational black Americans!
The word foundational black Americans didn't exist and that word is another misnomer that is just as bad as calling yourself black smh. Some say our people will get to the point that they will stop participating in division and no longer identify themselves by a color let alone a color they are not. If anyone disagrees when you look in the mirror do you see black or do you see brown? Further black and white or those who classify themselves as that is political status.
@@iamtherealest2everdoit The fact that the word black and the word white according to blacks law dictionary from the 1600 and 1700 and 1800 and 1900; meant very racist and evil propaganda about black and blackness, yet pure holiness of its white counter part, is the main reason a distinction of our blackness and the fact that our ancestors were the first thing traded on the NYSE is necessary! Firstly white is snow and means the death cycle of vegetation lack of sunlight. Cancer is white, white sugar and white flour gives us diabetes. White skin burns in the sun. (I’ve never needed an ice bath from a day at the beach without sunscreen) White in an X-ray means sickness whereas black is open clear lungs,brain, heart, vasculature etc. Black is beautiful needs to be added to blacks law dictionary and blackness made legal. Lastly we were classified as slaves by the British and US governments back “when the word foundational black American didn’t exist”, and with the little freedom We have in this country telling us to fall in line with addressing a man with female pronouns or be made even more of a pariah in society, I find it highly problematic that the US government won’t recognize FBA and ADOS as a Status if we want to be addressed as such. Prove that the US government truly isn’t anti ADOS and FBA while being overtly pro everybody else with great respect to their foreign cultures. We are delineating ourselves as unique to this country being its literal foundation. I’m hoping that one day you embrace the blackness that was there with god in the beginning and he told that blackness to let the light come out. See you know the speed of light but what is the speed of darkness. Even light can’t escape a black hole! At the center of every star and galaxy are black holes that allow light to emanate from them melanin is a 18 Carbon chain molecule able to absorb light much light black holes do and have a black hue much liike charcoal. Remember the light comes from the darkness which is why the whitest man on the planet has two very dark skinned Africans as parents so please let’s not ever denigrate blackness or the word black ever again as a people on planet earth because there are black people all over this earth being colonized by white people who technically didn’t exist until the law of 1681 made it illegal for blacks and white to marry! White indentured servants and black slaves married one another before they United in rebellion for a year and the white race was created as a buffer class equipped with rights and authority over all black men and women, and for white people wishing to stay married to slaves they and their children were enslaved indefinitely! Before that whites were classified by the nation of birth or lineage! Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were racist against the irish go look up the quotes! We black and we are proud!
@@iamtherealest2everdoit FBA is a term that other non FBA like because it excludes immigrant Africans. We live in a country that has disrespected us in so many ways and it’s our fault! We are behind because we don’t stick together! Segregation was not invited by us Sister Girl they created it and made us the others by controlling everything! Real where?
@@iamtherealest2everdoitlet me see what you know then…
If we aren’t FBA or black, what is our original heritage then? I’ll wait
@Chosen Sun I'm not sure if you knew we are the original native indigenous peoples of Tameri. Also known as America. Our original classification was American Indian according the our racist government. The problem is we have allowed the conquerors of these lands classify us. Then when they realized how much land we owned they misclassified us and told us we came from a land we did not. So we could not keep or reclaim our lands back.
once Malcom UNDERSTOOD THE OLD BULL'S IN HIS OWN COMMUNITY IT CHANGED HIS MIND
Absolutely!!
As time proceeds you slowly realize depending on how aware you are we all have the same enemy
Yes...The one's that pulled kings strings
There's nothing to realize. Everyone has always known the root of all this is systemic White Supremacy. But as long as White's enjoy it's benefits, White Supremacy will never be destroyed.
@Aurelius Leslie the 1% does not care about race because they know it's a myth, there little cabala, masonic club they want to destroy everything and everyone, why else would they make Caitlin Jenner woman of the year?,They see themselves as an alien species and we are subhuman.
@Aurelius Leslie They do use people however to obtain there objectives, the reason KKK was created by Albert Pike, a 33 degree freemason. K = 11 letter, they wanted to nationalize hate and it worked wonderfully
@Aurelius Leslie I remember an art history lesson about Zion Bank in Utah. The only color that matters is Green. Money is all that matters. MLK came to the point that he realized slavery had been expanded to include everyone, everywhere was a sacrifice zone, the common enemy is capitalism.
Dr. King didn't have power his enemies had the power it was his fath in doing what's right.
''Influence''
I have a profound respect and admiration for Martin Luther King Jr. Well done Martin! You held on to your integrity when others told you not to! The current Republican Party needs to learn that lesson from you!
they couldn't do MLK's laundry
Why are you pointing the finger? Both sides incredibly racist can't hide it.
Alex Haley once said slavery wasn't that bad and lost all creditably with me
It would be interesting to hear from the descendants of MLK Jr. regarding this information.
How dare you!
They would say Fraud
💨 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. graduated HS @15 & college by 19.
Nice point taken but no man is Reverend
Facts. Black Male Excellence.
“Doing the right thing morally” says it all in a nutshell. ❤👵🏽🇬🇧
Grand Rising! Thank you for all you do! I pray eternal blessings for you and all that work so hard!
The truth has a way of surfacing, and this is good. For me, a must read.
Is there some kind of quantifiable proof to that statement?
Beautiful segment ❤
Thank You Amy💙💜💚✨🇺🇸
May Dr. King vision live on in Jesus Christ Powerful Name.
I am a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and even I know Dr. King was a man of God !!!
Epic. An Instant Classic. A must read. Thank you for keeping it real.
Our Heavenly Father gave us the rules of commands and you will be held accountable.
As much as I love Alex Haley (probably b/c he wrote the autobiography of Malcolm X), he has lied so much I don’t know if I’m coming or going
Alex Haley is a complete liar (R.I.P). Roots was completely plagiarized and he was sued because of it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X contained chapters that expressed Malcolm’s (R.I.P) true thoughts towards the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (R.I.P) that were excluded after Malcolm’s death. There were at least 4 chapters that left out of the book. That were later sold at an auction of Alex Haley’s possessions.
I'm not aware of the historical inaccuracies
Alex Hailey, such a disappointment 😞
ITS NOT JUST HIM,SAYING THESE THINGS
Thanks God you finally found out what has been known for decades...
"We must not cultivate the spirit of the exceptional or look for the hero, another form of leader. We must elevate the people, expand their minds, equip them, differentiate them, and humanize them."
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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Defund FBI
I've said this so many times. Take our heroes off of pedestals and allow people, the youth especially, to know that they are human. Subject to human flaws. How you can have issues and still be a blessing and the spark of positive change and improvement.
Hoover was a deeply sexually repressed individual and projected his insecurities out onto everyone. The man was an absolute control freak and it's deeply unfortunate that he ever, well, existed.
He was a pedophile.
Exactly! His mother should have swallowed him.
Thats why he dead and in Hell right
He also had black ancestry and that was the main reason he went after black Civil Rights leaders. He was covering his own behind from being outed. He was a useful tool for systemic racism.
King was hey fornicating womanizer facts .
THANK YOU 🙏🏽 AMY N DN FOR THIS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL PROGRAM 💕THAT’S SO NEEDED IN THE FACE OF NAZI FASCISM 😢💔❣️
Especially nazis like antifa and blm
No surprise at all! They did the same thing to his writer and march coordinator Rev. James Bevel!
Oh! To have been in the company of these great men, even for a few minutes.
Thanks, enjoyed this fascinating interview about the life of MLK with Jonathan Eig. Hope my library gets hold of his book.
The miracle is not walking on water the miracle is keeping your mind at peace walking through the valley of evil and the shadows of death.
Dick gregory said alex was apart of the consapricy to destroy malcom and king
Alex who
@@marathonlogistics9943 alex haley
Thank you, Amy, for this informative interview with Mr Jonathan Eig. I want to read his book; it sounds like he has done extensive research on Dr King’s life and work.
Get It Right...He Never Committed Suicide!!!💯💯💯
Awesome Nobel Speech by MLK.
It can be debated that Martin Luther King Jr. was the most scrutinized citizen in American history.
Whose side are you really on?
We LOVE you, Amy! "I want to talk about fbi surveillance".
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THANK YOU Journalist Jonathan Eig.
King and MX, 2 people of never met but love as if I did. Thank you. RIP 🥀🥀
JONATHAN EIG HAD SOME BEAUTIFUL COMMENTS TO MAKE ABOUT DOCTOR KING!!!
IT TOUCHES MY HEART!!!
Any man who has a moral compass worthy of backing up his own integrity will appreciate the value of Martin Luther King Jr. Thank you to Mr. Eig for documenting, and reminding us of what a great man Martin Luther King Jr. was.
The Reverend Dr MLK Jr was definitely a radical for his time. That’s why he was martyred! No great leader will try to achieve perfection. They know it’s a fool’s errand. It’s the target at which they aim while striving for excellence and are often disappointed by their own efforts, and the degree to which they miss the mark. LBJ should’ve known that the cure for his nightmares would’ve been to heed the admonition of the Dr. The need of mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence: indeed! J Edgar Hoover represented the evil of violence, while MLK represented the goodness of peace. The fundamental changes MLK advocated were anathema to the goals of the duopoly government then; they are, and would be now. RIP Reverend Dr King. I know that I don’t have to tell you how much you are missed.. ❤
Great job. ❤
Thank you Amy for doing this awesome interview, Thank you Jonathan for writing such a necessary book.
Non- violence?? If you hit someone, you should EXPECT to be hit back. You reap what you sow!!! No injustice will go unpunished, nor unanswered.
Rest in power to both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
When “Beyond Vietnam” is read today, the failings of contemporary society in jettisoning Martin Luther King, Jr.s’ themes he highlighted in that speech are frightening. Rampant racism, gross materialism, and warmongering on scales that Dr. King probably could have imagined.
In terms of the relationship between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, I think that this interview is a bit off the mark in downplaying Malcolm’s criticisms of the civil rights movement led by Dr. King. Looking at those criticisms today, besides the existence of a Black middle class that is larger than the Black middle class during the lives of both men, not much has changed.There are no leaders and champions of civil rights today who rise to the heroic brilliance of either man.
There are no surprises about John Kennedy's and Robert Kennedy’s antipathy toward Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement he led. Lyndon Johnson took that antipathy and raised it exponentially following the Riverside Church speech. J. Edgar Hoover was a despicable person, not much different from the extremists on the right today. Two themes that marked Hoover’s life were his hatred of those he disagreed with and his pandering to getting the “dirt" of those he opposed.
You forgot Hoover's hatred of himself. He was also one of those DC people who only had male roommates all of his life.
@@darksaint0124 Hoover was a 360 degree nutcase and extremely dangerous top cop. Who knows what identity he really had and whether or not he had a sense of his sexuality? He didn’t like dirt. Pretty crazy stuff there. His trump card was blackmail.
And Gay Edgar the closet queen
Excellent presentation 👏
Thank u Jonathan eig 💯😎👍
Thankfully we have Democracy Now
It's depressing to know that our elected officials still feel this way and our still actively committed to the status quo.
Thanks for sharing the details and truths about the King book
So interesting!
Powerful!
Hate is disgusting deplorable and murderous.
I rest my case.
This man was beaten, sprayed with water hoses, attacked and bitten by dogs. In a lot of other things. He had the right to be depressed. He had the right to have a mental breakdown.
Such an inspiring interview. My heartiest congratulations to you both. One note: I think it's very important, when having conversations about Malcolm X, to remind everyone that he was forced, by the Ku Klux Klan, at the age of 5, to watch his father being burned alive. It's important to know this about him. Thank you.
This is an incorrect account of how his father died, though it is believed the KKK got his father cut in half by a train car, the KKK did harass his mother while she was pregnant with him. The lynching and murder of will brown several years before Malcolm's birth was a catalyst for his parents having g black nationalistic thought patterns and it may be what you are referring to
They've always used fear tactics and terror. Malcom's Father was a preacher as well as Martin's. So America it's time for you to ask yourself.. why do you fear & terrorize black people??? Seriously. Why?? Black people have received the most heinous treatment here for centuries, yet thru all the horrors we've never had it in our hearts to act out the evils back onto those that did such evils.
Did not know that. Wow.
@@wafflesmomforlife9215 that is not how his father died. She is probably thinking of the Omaha riot of 1919 in which will brown was accused and murdered in the same night by lynching and burning
@@wafflesmomforlife9215 I got this information out of a history book. I'd like to see the research before refuting it. The fact is, that the KKK committed such horrors with so many people, that it's altogether possible that they did it to both - the child that became Malcome X , and the child that become Will Brown.
Good show, good talk Jonathan.
excellent interview
Martin Luther King will always be in my heart and those whose lives were transformed because of his passion for human rights!!
The hypocrisy of J. Edgar and Lyndon Johnson and many others. RIP🙏 ❤❤Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X.
Who created and controlled the NAACP ...
Caucasian Jews.
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great take my man
Thank you.
❤❤❤ Amazing Doctor Martin Luther king 👑. RIP