“The director of a forthcoming movie about Martin Luther King Jr. has vowed he won’t show him in bed with a prostitute.
For months now, King’s family has been nervous about ‘Selma.’ Produced by Brad Pitt and “Slumdog Millionaire” Oscar-winner Christian Colson, the project’s script portrays King (r.) as the tireless martyr of America’s civil rights movement. But Paul Webb’s screenplay also shows him to be a flesh-and-blood man who had, as his colleague Ralph Abernathy wrote, a ‘weakness for women.” (more…)
The article goes on to mention the fact that on one occasion FBI director J. Edgar Hoover actually did record one of King’s affairs and sent the recording along with a letter to King’s wife.
Nothing can erase the King’s accomplishments within the Civil Rights movement. But in this society that has become addicted to the revelation of dark secrets of others we esteem, is King hands off?
