The real vs the remembered Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Pretty much everyone in America says that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man.

Even though I knew of his cheating on his wife, which was pretty much covered up by the media, I accepted and admired the remembered man; the person that America praised as opposed to who the man really was.

Americans remembered King as the man who proclaimed the truth; we should judge people based on the content of their character not the color of their skin.   The King we remember is a good man and the sort of hero we should hold up for emulation.

The real King is coming into the light again however because a leftists Brit Pulitzer prize winning author has now said that King cheated on his wife much more than had been thought and that he may have not been opposed to a friend raping a woman.

These claims may all be false but the leftist making them has no reason to lie and he says they are based on recordings made by Bobby Kennedy.

As an aside one more bit of evidence of the racism of the modern Democrat party is that Bobby Kennedy spied on King and released damaging information he found to the press to discredit King.

If they're true then by the standards of the modern left they mean nothing.

Some conservatives are saying that this new information could bring about a meaningful dialog about how condemning people like Washington and Jefferson because they weren't perfect--they both owned slaves--isn't right. That since no one is perfect we should admire the remembered Washington and Jefferson rather than dwell on their failings.

The problem with those conservatives hopes is that they're forgetting that to the left failures by leftists aren't failures.  The left still refuses to condemn Bill Clinton for his #MeToo crimes, Democrat governor Northam for his racism, or Ilhan Omar for her antisemitism.

Even if we could prove that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were a serial killer, which he most certainly was not,  the left wouldn't dream of waging a campaign against him like they are against Washington and Jefferson.  The left hates all the Founders because they gave us a country where the people rule and the left wants an America where the elites, who they fancy themselves as, rule.

The interesting thing is that the left should hate King because they completely reject his call to judge people by the content of their character not the color of their skin.  To the left all Blacks, except conservatives, are good because of the color of their skin and all whites, except themselves, are bad because of the color of their skin.

Day after day the left issues sweeping condemnations of every person of pallor in direct opposition to the call for which most Americans admire King.

Every society needs heroes.  Few people are perfect.  Hence it's perfectly fine for us to admire the remembered heroes and not the real flawed men.