Talk sideways about MLK? No problem (especially if you are a Kennedy).
“I make allowance for her doubting the integrity of Martin Luther King. We often have mistaken views of a person…I am not going to trouble myself on a statement made by a 30-year-old woman made under great stress. All of us are fallible, all of us are prone to accept what is not true.” (Rev. Walter Fauntroy)
“She had a lot of things going on at the time…You are sitting next to your husband see half of his head split right in front of you. That is a lot to consider. You can’t fault her. It was a difficult time.” (Geneva Mays, founder of the Prince George’s County Chapter of Jack and Jill of America)
“Bobby Kennedy in his anxiety as Attorney General allowed J. Edgar Hoover to do the wire tapping. It just shows the spirit of the times…The people who hurt us was not Jackie Kennedy. The people who hurt us blocked school doors. They arrested us, unleashed the dogs and stood on the floor of the House and spoke against the public accommodations bill and set the climate of violence against us. I still see Jackie Kennedy in very favorable terms.” (Jesse Jackson)
BTW, I am still amazed how a person who is on record stating that he wanted to cut Obama’s nuts off is still being asked his input on anything political or social. But like Kennedy, all has been forgiven.
“Obviously, she has been tarnished and has been exposed for what she really was. That tells you something. She didn’t want the truth of who she was released until he she was dead. In reality, it was LBJ who pushed and put his own reputation on the line to get the Civil Rights act passed and not Kennedy. We need to give credit where credit is due and not a fairy tale. Camelot was fairy tale.” (Seat Pleasant Mayor Eugene Grant)
