Wednesday, 22 January 2020

22: The Dream Maker

The civil rights movement is re-examined as a calculated media production, from the name changes in Nazi Germany to the government conspiracy verdict in Memphis.

By Moe Factz with Adam Curry | 1h 39m listen | 26 chapters
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About this episode

Martin Luther King Jr. and his father, Martin Luther King Sr., adopted their names following a 1933 visit to Nazi Germany, a transformation that set the stage for a civil rights movement often managed as a high-stakes media production. While the public remembers the 1963 March on Washington as a spontaneous moral awakening, the architecture of the event was meticulously designed by Bayard Rustin, a strategist whose communist ties and personal life drew intense FBI surveillance. This episode examines the discrepancy between the sanitized historical narrative and the complex political maneuvering involving the NAACP, the Kennedy administration, and the eugenics-linked Margaret Sanger Award.

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI utilized extensive wiretaps to monitor King’s private life, eventually sending a notorious suicide letter and recordings of infidelities to Coretta Scott King. Beyond the surveillance, the movement functioned like a casting agency, selecting Rosa Parks as a sympathetic face while rejecting the darker-skinned, pregnant teenager Claudette Colvin for the Montgomery bus boycott. The narrative extends to the 1999 civil trial where a jury found government agencies, including the CIA and FBI, responsible for the assassination at the Lorraine Motel. Testimony from Judge Joe Brown and researcher Steve Cokely challenges the guilt of James Earl Ray and the subsequent rise of Jesse Jackson as a media-anointed successor.

The King family legacy is marked by a series of suspicious tragedies, including the 1969 drowning of A.D. King and the 1974 church assassination of Alberta King by a member of a group known as The Troop. These events, alongside the psychological impact of the anthem We Shall Overcome, suggest a movement that was as much about globalist integration as it was about domestic reform. The episode concludes with a look at the 1958 stabbing of King by Isola Ware Curry and the enduring questions surrounding the murder weapon and the true architects of the civil rights era.


CHAPTER 01 / 26 Discussion

Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy and Media Representation

The discussion opens with an apology for the delayed recording of show 22, which was intended to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A clip from the film Coming to America featuring Arsenio Hall serves as a lighthearted entry point before transitioning into the iconic "I have a dream" speech. The focus shifts to the high-quality audio of the 1963 speech and the contrast between mainstream media portrayals and a more complex historical reality.

martin luther king jr· coming to america· arsenio hall· i have a dream· civil rights movement

00:26 Which is another show we got to do, Moe. We got to do that together. Yes, we do. And it's show 22, sir. Did I say 21? I'm sorry. Show 22. Thank you. An error in the system. You can't take one from me, man. No, no, no. I don't want to take anything from you. Now, I have to apologize to everybody and really to the, I feel like I've done the show a disservice. There was a prior engagement that I had put on the books before we shifted our recording time to Monday evenings, and I really didn't want to cancel that. But now, just looking over what we might be talking about tonight

01:08 and fully well aware that yesterday we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King. I feel like I am a traitor. I've done the show a disservice. Well, no, I knew exactly where you were at. You were volunteering like everybody else. Yes, I was. Yes, I was volunteering my time. Exactly right. I'm sure you were doing the same. No, I wasn't. All right, everybody, we're going to spin the big wheel. Let's find out what we'll be talking about tonight, which really should have been yesterday, an important day. And oh, our topic for today is Martin Luther King Jr. Luther the King. Martin Luther King Jr. Who was that? Who was Martin Luther King?

01:54 We're talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. No, no, who said that? Who said that on the clip? That was from Coming to America. None of your favorite movies. Yes, that is one of my favorite movies. I liked it a lot. Even Arsenio Hall was good in that. Yes, he was. That's saying a lot. I thought I'd throw that in there. Yeah, thank you. Very nice. Very nice. Okay. So, yes, apologies. We should have had this out yesterday, but maybe yesterday everyone had a chance to, you know, kind of soak in the mainstream media version. Yeah, so you know what mainstream media gave you that I have a dream. I have a dream that one day

02:36 this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creeds. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of joy, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream. My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream.

03:24 Yes. And may I thank you for finding one of the better quality versions of that clip. I hear so many versions of it, which is old film optical sound. This is pretty decent. Yeah, I tried to pick the best quality clips. I even do a little producing to you're a musicologist. Yeah, yes, I am. So it's appreciated and it's noticed. So what we're not going to do is that. Oh, okay. I thought we could do more. Oh, all right. So no, we're not going to do that. Oh, okay. Good, good, good. MLK was a very

CHAPTER 02 / 26 Discussion

Chronicles of Judah on MLK as a Globalist Trigger

A segment from YouTuber Chronicles of Judah 144 argues that the image of Martin Luther King Jr. is utilized by Caucasian liberals as a psychological trigger to control Black Americans. The commentary suggests that the promotion of King's non-violent, pacifist ideology serves to reign in dissent and integrate the population into a globalist economic system described as Luciferian communism.

chronicles of judah· globalism· luciferianism· communism· social control

04:08 special person. He had good and bad. That's what we're going to do here. We're going to talk about both, the good and the bad. And what I really want to focus on is one, how he is used as a product now, or his image is used as a product. One. And then two, the influences around him. Because what people don't really know is, oh, let's just start with how he is used. This is Chronicle Chronicles of Judah, one of our favorite YouTubers. And he talks about MLK the trigger. The Caucasian liberals have a lot invested in the image of Martin Luther King Jr.

04:51 Martin Luther King is a trigger that they use to control American blacks. Remember, whenever American blacks start to get out of control, they bring up Martin Luther Martin King Jr. Luther King Jr. That's how they reign you in. You got to be more like Dr. King. You have to follow his message. You have to want to be with me. You have to want to hold my hand. Once again, Martin Luther King was a pawn of the globalists. They utilized him to bring you black people into the fold of globalism, aka Luciferianism. The economic system of Luciferianism is communism. Oh, Mo, you're talking my language with this one.

05:31 I love it. Let me just get this straight. It was YouTuber was Chronicles of what? Of Judah 144. Christopher Jr. 144. Okay, I just want to make sure we have that in the show notes for everybody. Okay, that was good. I like that. That was good to listen to. So this is that's why I said the real person, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: As we talked about before, he went from nonviolent to at the end of his life saying he ushered, he thinks he ushered his people into a burning house. So that shows complex, but the mainstream media wants you to have a dream.

CHAPTER 03 / 26 Discussion

Martin Luther King Jr. Early Life and Margaret Sanger Award

Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael Luther King Jr. in 1929 and entered Morehouse College at the age of 15. His father, a Reverend at Ebenezer Baptist Church, groomed him for leadership within the church and the NAACP. Notably, King was an early recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award, linking him to the founder of the eugenics movement that evolved into Planned Parenthood.

michael luther king jr· morehouse college· naacp· margaret sanger· planned parenthood· eugenics

06:13 And they want to use that nonviolent, pacifist ideology to shape the mind of black people, quote-unquote, black people in America. So it's a control mechanism. But as we get into this, I just want to do a little background on Martin Luther King, a crusader for liberation. Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister and leading activist during the 20th century civil rights movement. He was born Michael Luther King Jr. on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta and later changed his name to Martin.

06:58 King grew up steeped in religion and activism. His father was a Reverend at Ebenezer Baptist Church and a local NAACP leader. A talented student, King skipped two grades in high school and entered Morehouse College at age 15. King was skeptical about Christianity as a boy, but later embraced his faith and entered the seminary. Okay. So the reason why I rang the bell at age 15. Yeah. He was being groomed to be a protege. Huh. A la Greta. Many examples. Yeah.

07:40 Wow. And who was doing the grooming? His father. See, he grew up in a pastor-rich family. His father married into a church family. So he married into his grandfather on his mother's side ran, I think, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Right. Well, he was being groomed in the cloth. I mean, that seems kind of logical. You have parochial family like that. That's not, you know, it's not necessarily a bullet Illuminati yet. Well, well, well, whoa, slam on the brakes. Wait, pump the brakes.

08:23 Yes. He's definitely a car-carrying member of the Boulet. He is. As we talked about before with Margaret Sanger. Right, right, right, right. Just have the Reverends. Yeah, okay, got it. The Reverend. And a little known fact, he actually won the first Margaret Sanger Award. We have to give a little background to the Margaret Sanger, just a tad. She started the eugenics movement, which eventually became Planned Parenthood. Now, I don't need to talk about if they've changed since then or not, but they was totally like sterilizing black men.

09:07 This is all total fact history and was accepted belief at the time. Yeah, I have no argument there. She definitely was targeting minorities, poor, quote-unquote, poor white trash. And was of that name, of that ill. But I just want to make sure that we don't say that she only targeted it. Not only. No, not only. True. True. Quote unquote, Mari. But I just want to, yeah, he was, yeah, he was awarded the Margaret Sanger Award. So I just want to point that out. Just so you know. Minor little detail that gets glossed over in the haziography on Martin Luther King Jr.

CHAPTER 04 / 26 Discussion

Martin Luther King Sr. Nazi Germany Visit and Name Change

Martin Luther King Sr., originally Michael King, traveled to Nazi Germany in 1933 for a meeting of Baptist pastors. Upon his return, he changed both his and his son's names to Martin Luther in honor of the German theologian who initiated the Protestant Reformation. The timing of this visit to Germany during the rise of the Nazi party is highlighted as a curious and under-discussed historical detail.

martin luther king sr· michael king sr· nazi germany· protestant reformation· martin luther

09:49 itself. Yes. And the other thing in that clip that I want to point out is that he was reading. was reluctant to go into the church business or the faith, as they pointed out in that clip. But I rarely do this, but please forgive me. I'm going to use a robo voice because I couldn't find many clips on this next man, Martin Luther King Jr. One. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early leader in the American civil rights movement.

10:26 He was also the father of Martin Luther King Jr. Early Life King or Michael King led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and became a leader of the civil rights movement as the head of the NAACP chapter in Atlanta and of the Civic and Political League. He encouraged his son to become active in the movement. He also changed his name from Michael King to Martin Luther King after becoming inspired during a trip to Germany by the life of Martin Luther, the German theologian who initiated the Protestant Reformation. Now, was that the CPA, the Communist Party of America? Well, you're getting ahead of yourself, so I need to put you to put you in. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

11:10 All right. No, that was an easy connection. So I won't get on you too much, but you know, you are from the future. So we need you to put those goggles on. But what was strange was Martin Luther King Jr. and Martin Luther King Jr. were originally Michael King Sr. and Michael King Jr. But Michael King Sr. makes his trip to Nazi Germany in 1933. And he comes back and changes his name, his son's name to Martin Luther King Jr.

11:49 Because what were you doing in Germany? Yeah, because the Nazi tie with the Nazi visit was or the German visit was problematic or could be seen as problematic, I guess. Yeah, what were you doing? I mean, that was just, I can't find too much information on what there were. I mean, it was a group of pastors, ministers that went over there. What was a black man doing in Nazi Germany in 1933? Chilling. Netflix and you were running track of boxing. I mean, that was... I don't know. You're right. That's a throwback to other shows that we had. But yeah, that was the only two people that I know. So it was just strange. You come back, you change your name.

CHAPTER 05 / 26 Discussion

Isola Ware Curry and the 1958 Harlem Stabbing

In September 1958, a woman named Isola Ware Curry stabbed Martin Luther King Jr. in the chest with a seven-inch letter opener during a book signing in Harlem. Curry, who believed King was a communist spy, nearly killed the civil rights leader; doctors noted he was a "sneeze away" from death as the blade rested against his aorta. This event is presented as a precursor to the later claims regarding King's political affiliations.

isola ware curry· harlem· assassination attempt· communism· biography

12:31 So for a little bit more background, let's get into Crusaders for Liberation 2. King was now the national face of the civil rights cause. He was jailed over 20 times, was once stabbed in the chest. His house was bombed, and he suffered relentless personal attacks on himself and his family. One day I was crying profusely, and mom picked us up from school and asked me, well, what's wrong? And I said, well, the kids said daddy's a jailbird. And she explained to me why he was going to jail, that he was really going to jail to make this world a better place for all of God's children.

13:12 Well, the next day I came back to school with almost a new attitude, being proud of what my father was doing. So had you ever heard of Martin Luther King being stabbed? No. I've heard none of this. Where did you dig this up? This was on biography, actually. So it's not, I mean, there's not like a hidden secret, hidden secret, but I'll give you a little background on it. Maybe this is why you didn't hear about it. On September 20th, 1958, Isola Ware Curry, a poor and demented woman from Georgia, became a footnote in history.

13:51 Just a little sneeze away from being a major figure. It says that day, the sometimes housekeeper and short order cook pulled an ivory handle, seven-inch letter holder, and excuse me, plunged a seven-inch letter holder into the chest of Martin Luther King Jr. Wow. While he was in Harlem for a book signing, she wanted to kill Kings, she said, because she believed he was a communist and was spying on her. Wow. And such shame. And she was a black lady. Such shame brought to the Curry name. I'm trying to make amends. Trying to make amends.

14:35 Wow. Oh, you know, I really don't think I've heard that story. And a seven-inch. I mean, did it go all the way in? What happened? I mean, clearly he survived it. Well, they had to remove the black. I guess it broke off in him because they actually had to remove the blade. And the talking point was he was a sneeze away from dying. If he didn't sneeze, he'd have died. That's the story. Wow, wow. The fact that she believed he was a communist way back in 1958, which arguably he came from, his dad was communist. He was surrounded by a lot of comments. And we're going to get into that more. Yeah. Wow.

CHAPTER 06 / 26 Discussion

JFK, Nixon, and the 1960 Election Pivot

The 1960 presidential election saw a significant shift in Black political alignment when John F. Kennedy intervened to secure Martin Luther King Jr.'s release from a Georgia prison. While Richard Nixon, a friend of King's father, declined to interfere in the legal process, the Kennedy campaign's proactive stance won the endorsement of "Daddy" King. This strategic move is credited with helping Kennedy secure the Black vote and win the presidency.

john f kennedy· richard nixon· coretta scott king· daddy king· civil rights· 1960 election

15:13 The more you learn, the more you know. Yeah, so we ain't giving the M5M or the mainstream media for the people that don't know what M5M is. We're not going to give you the mainstream media story here. We're going to get into the nooks and crannies of his life. The people that surrounded him. Beautiful. I'm very excited. I like this a lot. So let's get back to his father, Martin Luther King Jr. 2. In October 1960, when Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested at a peaceful sit in Atlanta, Robert Kennedy telephoned the judge and helped secure King's release.

15:52 Although King Esser had previously opposed Kennedy because he was a Catholic, he expressed his appreciation for these calls and switched his support to Kennedy. At this time, King Esser had been a lifelong registered Republican and had endorsed Republican Richard Nixon. His son, Martin Luther King Jr., soon became a popular civil rights activist. Taking inspiration from Mohandes Gandhi of India, he led nonviolent protests in order to give African Americans greater rights. Wow. Mind blown. King was a Republican until the JFK popped him out of jail.

16:32 Then he switched. So let me give you the background of this story because this is what I have to credit my black history professor, Dr. Mosley. All right. Because when he dropped on me, this is what started me really on to questioning what the narrative is. Oh, this is a nice. I have one of these moments too. Yeah, that's beautiful when you remember the moment when your brain, that's like you're awakening. You're like, hold on a second. This media is crap. Yeah. And the story is in 1960, he was arrested for some kind of license violation in Georgia.

17:09 And his father, Daddy King, that's what he was known as, was afraid that he was going to be lynched in jail. So he gets on the phone with his good friend Nixon and with the Kennedy people. And they were like, we're kind of brokering. Who can get my son out of the jail? Wait a minute. With the Nixon and the Kennedy people? Yes. It's fantastic. They both wanted to see. They both ordinary people. Yes. They both wanted to get the black support. They were fighting for it. Oh, my God. This is boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. Nice.

17:52 Thank you. So who was Kennedy was the one that made the wheels turn and got King out of there. And at a show of gratitude, Daddy King went on to sway his congregation and all his influence to Kennedy. And in the next clue, Ty Nixon turns back on Martin Luther King Jr. And it was devastating. The most devastating thing of all for Nixon, by the way, was an act of cowardice. When Dr. King was arrested on a totally trumped up charge and put in a paddy wagon and in chains to be taken to Reesville prison in Georgia, Coretta Scott King called both campaigns, the Kennedy campaign of the Nixon campaign.

18:35 So would you please help get him out? You know, the violence against African Americans in the South in Georgia at that time was horrible. And she really thought he was going to be killed. And Kennedy, the Kennedy people stepped up. And Nixon told his advisors that that would just be grandstanding to interfere with the legal process. And King, that was it. King later said he had a, you know, we were in touch. I thought we were friends. And then he was, it showed a real moral, a real moral lapse. And if, and if Nixon had done it, Kennedy was sent, by the way, the Kennedy people sent out a campaign flyer that said no comment, Nixon versus the candidate with a heart. And if Nixon had carried the black vote, and by the way, he still got 32% of the black vote, unlike today when they went Republicans, got like 2% of the black vote.

19:24 But he would have won. He would have won, probably would have won at least two more states, and everything would have changed. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That was cool. And this is where history kind of shifted at this point. Yeah, in the time machine that you just put us in. Wow. Martin Luther King became a. a huge civil rights leader. Daddy King swayed everybody within his influence to vote for Kennedy. Nixon lost. And that's where we're at. Hey, you know, I got to thank you right here. We're only 20-some minutes into the show.

CHAPTER 07 / 26 Discussion

Richard Nixon Visit to the King Family Wake

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Richard Nixon visited the King family home in Atlanta. Despite the political shifts of the early 1960s, Nixon and Martin Luther King Sr. shared a personal connection, evidenced by their embrace during the wake. The segment highlights the proximity of the King family to high-level political elites.

richard nixon· martin luther king sr· assassination· wake· political influence

20:07 You've already given me a history lesson, which I was completely unaware of. And it's so obvious. Where did he actually come from? And all you really see, all the imagery you get, is I have a dream and he's shot. That's pretty much it. I mean, to be honest about it, there's more, but that's what your brain, you know, my brain remembers. So this is fantastic. And these are not ordinary people. These people were elite in a way. In a way. And I'm saying with their inf. They wouldn't like hugely rich people. No. But their influence. And influence is like one of the greatest things ever. He was like the OG Instagram influencer.

20:52 Yes. Okay. And that's why I let off the show by calling him Greta in a way. Yes, yes. Oh, man. He was 15 years old when he was being shaped and groomed. Wow. And his father saw a great opportunity by him getting arrested and basically saying, who has that kind of power to call both presidential campaigns and say, hey, which one of you guys can get my son out of jail? Yeah, I'm holding a contest. I want to see how you're doing. Wow. That's maybe some Margaret Sanger juice. Who knows where that came from? But definitely in the milieu, as we would say.

21:31 Yes. So the Nixon and Daddy King connection was so strong that he really didn't even have hard feelings towards Daddy King. As we'll hear in this next clip, Nixon visited Martin Luther King Jr. On arriving at Martin Luther King Jr.'s home there was a wake-light atmosphere taking place. There must have been 50 or 60 people there enjoying food and talking with the King family and trying to help them cope with what had happened to their son.

22:12 Mr. Nixon walked in, walked up immediately up to Dr. King Sr. And when Dr. King Sr. saw Mr. Nixon, the two embraced. I remember being kind of behind Mr. Nixon and seeing Dr. King Sr. patting Mr. Nixon's back. I assume Mr. Nixon was doing the same with Dr. King Sr. He talked with the family there, with Mrs. King, with a number of their friends, and then we got back into the car and we headed to the airport.

CHAPTER 08 / 26 Discussion

Civil Rights Movement as a Media Production

The civil rights movement is described as a calculated media production designed to dramatize racial injustice for a national audience. Leaders like John Lewis intentionally put their bodies on the line to generate compelling television coverage, such as the footage from Selma in 1965. This media-centric strategy helped create a powerful brand around King, characterized by his iconic Southern Baptist oratorical style.

john lewis· hank klibanoff· the race beat· selma· television news

22:53 Wow. Shame. Just no shame. Let me go work the crowd during the wake. Yes, the Clintons do that very well now, actually. And just for context, that was post the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I just want to make sure people understood that. So we have to do a little throwback clip and just remind people, maybe for the new listeners may not have heard this, about the relationship between the media, MLK, and the civil rights movement. As a story, the civil rights movement had it all. Good versus evil.

23:34 Drama, social upheaval. But at first, America's major media ignored it, especially in the South. It was our responsibility to find a way to dramatize the issue. Congressman John Lewis says that the movement's leaders realized to bring change, they needed to reach white Americans. How did you do that? As a movement, we literally put our bodies on the line to influence all the civil rights coverage. Hank Klibanoff co-wrote The Race Beat, a book about the media and the movement. Well, race was a big story in the South beginning in the 40s and 50s. It's just that no one knew about it.

24:16 Finally, by 1957, major northern newspapers discovered the drama and the story. How do you feel about integrated passengers? The television networks followed. Even major southern media paid attention to the open hatred. You've got to keep the white and the black separate and the violent response to peaceful protests. If you're going to beat us, beat us in the light of day. Beat us by the camera's own. This was Selma, Alabama, 1965, among the bloodied John Lewis. American people could not stand it to see young children and old women being knocked down by fire hoses and chased by police dogs.

24:57 Wow, another interesting piece of the puzzle. Of course, John Lewis didn't he just died? He's, I think he, yeah, he's dead, and Elijah Cummings is sick because sometimes I get him mixed up myself. Right, I know it's terrible, but no, maybe it's the other way around. Now I feel bad about it. I do too. Sorry about that, but I just wanted to make the point. John Lewis is sick. Elijah Coming passed away. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So

25:39 they were putting on a production. No kidding. I mean, that's the total show. And this is the tactic they use to draw attention to the movement. Right. But the movement, as we heard, had basically already been co-opted by politics by politics and other influence. Yes. Influences. Yes. So there's multiple people. I mean, he Martin Luther King Jr. has one of the greatest voices ever. What is called the Southern Baptist voice that politicians use when they go down south?

26:20 You heard Hillary Clinton use it. It's really the Martin Luther King voice. Oh, totally. Obama uses it. I mean, this just is not who we are. Right. So that just his voice alone made people want to co-opt him and steer him in different directions. Yeah, it was an incredible brand. I mean, an all-around multimedia brand with the iconic voice and his speech pattern, everything. Total brand. And a very young man. We can't forget this. He is a very young man. I mean, he was born in 1929.

CHAPTER 09 / 26 Discussion

Bayard Rustin and the March on Washington Architecture

Bayard Rustin is identified as the primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington and a key advisor who pushed Martin Luther King Jr. toward absolute pacifism. Despite his organizational genius, Rustin was marginalized due to his open homosexuality and past affiliations with the Communist Party. Senator Strom Thurmond famously attacked Rustin on the Senate floor, using a 1953 arrest to discredit the broader civil rights movement.

bayard rustin· march on washington· pacifism· communism· strom thurmond

27:04 So in the 60s, he was only 31 years old. In the 50s, you know, I mean, so we're talking about just on the cusp of life, just understanding. And before that, in the 50s, he was being shaped one by his father and next by this next man. We talked about him on previous shows, Mr. Bayard Rustin, MLK's organizer. August 28th, 1963, a quarter of a million Americans gathered in Washington, demanding that Congress put an end to officially sanctioned racism.

27:41 With our bed Rustin as the organizer, the March on Washington would have been like a bird without wings. It was a sea of humanity. He had the ability to pull people together. He was able to reach out to hundreds and thousands of people all across America. Everybody, from the NACP to the Protestant, Catholic, and Jews. He brought us all together. They live in a nation where they will not be touched by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today that afternoon, in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, a parade of speakers offered words of inspiration to the crowd.

28:26 Those spoken by Martin Luther King would be heard over and over again for decades to come. Bayard Rustins would be all but forgotten. Right. I do remember this guy. So Bayard Rustin was an openly gay. Right. Okay, I remember now. Yeah. So put that in context. You have a deep southern pastor, pastor from a family of pastors dealing with and being steered by Bayard Rustin. But that wasn't the real issue they had with Bayard.

29:09 The issue they had with Bayard was his open dealings with communist factions. And Bayard was one of the ones that pushed MLK to really go non-violent because there was, it was captioned in a scene in a movie called Boycott, and it's well documented as well. where Bayard came to visit MLK, and MLK had armed guards around the house. And Bayard was like, How can you preach nonviolence, but you have

29:49 armed guards around your house? Which I have no problem. I mean, you could be nonviolent and still be about self-defense. I mean, those two things are one-to-one excuses. Yeah, exactly. Right. But he pushed him to be a pacifist, really, like no guns, no guns. So, but Bayard had a checker past himself, and we'll get into that a little later. But let's listen to a little bit more on his background, civil rights pioneer. Bayard was at heart a militant and revolutionary in the fight for civil rights.

30:28 Bayard Rustin served as a trusted advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery bus boycotts, but he's better known for organizing the iconic 1963 March on Washington. The one man in America who could do it did it, and that's why it happened. It had an architect. His name was Bayard Rustin. But in a time when intolerance ran high, Rustin stood out for more than just his work on civil rights. It was just one of these facts of life. By it is gay. He doesn't hide it. I said to somebody once that he never knew there was a closet to go into. Bye, it had been attacked both for his homosexuality and as old as his political views.

31:08 Strom Thurmond did it on the floor of the United States Senate. Thurman referenced Rustin's 1953 arrest on a public sex charge. The senator is interested in attacking me because he is interested in destroying the movement. He will not get away with this. And Strom Thurmond was a nice character, too. This is. Yeah, he's a piece of work. He's a real piece of work. So he, so Bayard Rustin was really kind of the Steve Bannon architect in the background of Martin Luther King Jr.

31:49 Yes. And to give credit, he was the architect of the 63 March on Washington. Right. He had a huge role in the boycott, the bus boycotts, but he didn't have that charisma that King had. Right. And that's what they said a couple of clips ago. Everybody spoke at the Marshall in Washington, but MLK set it on fire. Right. And that's something Bayard didn't have. And they want to play up this thing about Bayard being gay. You know, it was a reason why him. No, it was his political affiliations. But just for a little background, we're going to get into Bayard's arrest.

CHAPTER 10 / 26 Discussion

FBI Surveillance of Bayard Rustin and Communist Ties

The FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, heavily surveilled Bayard Rustin due to his membership in the Young Communist League and the Socialist Party. While Rustin's 1953 arrest for "lewd vagrancy" in Pasadena was used against him, his political radicalism was the primary concern for federal authorities. Decades later, Rustin was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, marking a shift in his official historical standing.

bayard rustin· fbi· j edgar hoover· cpusa· socialist party· presidential medal of freedom

32:37 Though I was extremely fond of him, I knew that he was interested in meeting lots of other people, and occasionally they turned up in my bed when I wasn't expecting them. FBI Field Report. On January 21st, 1953, Rustin was arrested by the police department in Pasadena, California as a suspected sexual pervert. He was charged with lewd vagrancy and sentenced to 60 days in the county jail. That was pretty fast news through the pacifist community that Bayard had been arrested in Pasadena.

33:19 All the other arrests he'd had were on grounds of principle. But this was an arrest where he knew he was wrong. I don't mean morally wrong because it was a sexual encounter. I mean, it was stupid to get arrested on the backseat of a car with two guys in a public place, and he knew this. So, but man, this is why Jeffrey Epstein had so much power. In America, in particular, not even Europe so much, but in America, it's always the sex stuff that brings you down. I don't care if you're CEO. I don't care if you're, you know, if you're Martin Luther King or if you're his mentor or if you're the president, the sex stuff always brings people down in America.

34:04 And that's the point why I'm bringing this up because it didn't bring him down. Right. They knew it. They knew it. They knew what was going on. Yeah. Southern Baptist preachers, I think they were Baptists. I'm quote 99.9% sure. Southern Baptist preachers knew who Bayard was, but he had so much juice and was such a great organizer, they looked the other way. But that is still the Achilles heel. heel for like a Strom Thurmond to bring that up. It doesn't help. But that's not what drove the wedge between MLK. No, I got you. No, I got you. I understand that. I understand that. It's this next clip that really did it.

34:46 Some of you may have heard on your news, and I know I heard it on the news this morning on PBS, the public radio, that Bayard Rustin has been awarded the President's Freedom Medal. Bayard Rustin is well known amongst individuals who've watched the Marxist movement in this country for years. Bayard Rustin, he was a black individual, joined the Communist Party, Young Communist League specifically, and cooperated with the communists into his adult life. Then he became a socialist, ultimately becoming the leader of the Socialist Party in the United States.

35:26 After that, he went to work with Martin Luther King to form organizations and became a very big leader in the civil rights movement. He actually was the primary organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Oh, wow. Cool. It was the fact that he was a communist because we got to put this in perspective. The 50s, 60s, well, going back to the 40s, being a communist or a socialist at that time was that was the worst thing ever. It was the worst thing ever, especially with Mr. J. Edgar Hoover breathing down your neck. And that's why they were like, we don't need that kind of attention, Bayard.

36:09 Right. You know, what you do in park cars with two men in broad daylight, that's one thing. But to be an open communist, no, that's no deal. But the influence, I would presume, had definitely rubbed off on King to some degree. It must have. And not only King. Okay, so let me just set up this next clip. This is from Mr. Danny Rubin. He was the National Youth Secretary of the Communist Party, a civil rights activist, and once called the most dangerous man in America to American youth by J. Edgar Hoover. He's going to speak. Yeah, that's a hell of a resume right there.

CHAPTER 11 / 26 Discussion

Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, and the Highlander Folk School

The narrative of Rosa Parks as a simple, tired seamstress is challenged by her history as a trained activist at the Highlander Folk School. Documents reveal that 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was the original individual to refuse her seat, but civil rights strategists deemed her "unfit" for the lead role in the legal challenge. Parks was selected as a more sympathetic face for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, supported by New Deal progressives Clifford and Virginia Durr.

rosa parks· claudette colvin· highlander folk school· clifford durr· montgomery bus boycott

36:57 He's going to speak on Rosa Park and the bus movement. So then when, you know, a couple years later, we went to them and asked them to help finance these buses of young people to the youth march in support of the Supreme Court decision. They did it. That's how we were able to bring 2,000 young people to D.C. What else? Oh, so I'm so I'm giving you a picture.

37:36 This is the stuff closest to 60 that led up to it. And of course there was Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Montgomery, I forget what they called association, something association. And we had a role in those things. Rosa Parks was active in the Southern Negro Youth Congress. People knew her. She was not a party member. But after she became a heroine, she was, you know, friendly.

38:16 Well, maybe this is a good point for you to mention the Highlander Folk School. Maybe this is a good time for you to mention the Highlander Folk School. Yeah, I intend to. Let me just finish. Hmm. Now is not a good time to mention the Highlander Folk School, but we'll get there. So a little background on Rosa Park because what we're doing is all the people surrounded in King's sphere. In his orbit, yeah. Yeah, in his orbit. So Miss Rosa Parks, she was friends and occasional seamstress for Mr. Clifford and Virginia Durr.

39:00 D-U-R-R. Have you ever heard of him? No. Okay. I'm going to first of all, he's a role scholar. So I mean, let's just put that out there. Okay, gotcha. Okay. And this is what I dug up on them. It says, Miss Parks was also friends and occasional seamstress for Mr. Clifford and Virginia. Virginia Durr, white uppercrust New Deal progressives who have been active in civil rights efforts. He was a lawyer. He as a lawyer and she as a volunteer.

39:38 Mrs. Durr encouraged and put money up for Mrs. Parks to attend a 10-day interracial workshop during the summer of 1955 at the Highlander Folk School. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No, this doesn't work. Rosa Parks was just a woman who was tired of sitting in the back of the bus. You can't tell me she went to a training camp. That's how the narrative goes. She just goes to some training camp all of a sudden. Oh, Mo, what are you doing? It gets juicier. You're ripping the universe apart. A training center for union and civil rights activists in rural Tennessee.

40:18 It says, let me see. It says, he and Gray prepared an appeal conviction for Claudette Covin, a 15-year-old African-American woman charged for violating Montgomery's bus segregation laws in March 1955. Right. She was the original act. She was the original Rosa Parks. But it says here, I'm continuing to read. It says, activists decided that hers was not the case to challenge not to use to challenge the law. Doesn't that sound familiar to Brown versus Board of Education? How they picked which cases they were going to use?

40:58 Of course. Okay, I continue. Hold on. Did Claudette not look right for the part? She was dark-skinned. It was rumored that she was pregnant at 15 years old. So she didn't pass the paper bag test, so to speak. And she did pass the communist test. Right. Where I was at. Dur was therefore ready in December 1955 when police arrested Rosa Parks for refusing to give her seat to a white man. So the lawyer for Claudette Covin is best friends and cool with Rosa Parks.

41:41 They push Claudette Covin to the side, and Rosa Parks end up. I'm tired of my feet hurt. I'm going to sit down on this bus. And then they end up taking the lawyer Gray took the federal court, took the federal court litigation, took on the federal court litigation challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance. So that's how it happened. Wow. Now tell me what you just heard. I know I said a lot. Well, so what I just heard is that a lot of these, there's just a lot of connection between communism, between elitists, politicians, et cetera, right down to Rosa Parks not being the story that

CHAPTER 12 / 26 Discussion

Casting the Civil Rights Movement and the Colvin Narrative

A clip of Claudette Colvin describes her 1955 arrest, nine months before Rosa Parks became the face of the movement. The discussion posits that the movement functioned like a casting agency, passing over Colvin because she was a dark-skinned, allegedly pregnant teenager. This selection process ensured the movement had the most marketable "production" for the American public.

claudette colvin· rosa parks· montgomery· civil rights· activism

42:33 I think we've all been told, regardless of color, I would hope that you can get some special deal on that. Where really, you know, she was a trained activist and they took an existing story, an existing case, and recreated it, maybe even with more people being complicit. The thing, of course, that, and I know they're going to lead to this, I think, is ultimately a lot of what happened with King brought an incredible awareness and goodness to America through violence and through other, not necessarily by King, but there was just a lot of shit going on. The question is, was it always politically motivated?

43:14 That's the mind-boggling part. To him, I believe not. To him, I think in his heart, and this is why I want to make this clear to the people. I think he came from an honest place of wanting to do something for his people. And that's why I'm focusing not on him. Have you noticed? I really haven't talked much about him. I'm talking about the people around outside influences that are trying to steer him where it's by proxy because Mr. Durr, I'm sure, said, wow, that king guy, Rosa, you know, you need to latch on to him. And, you know, we're going to, we're going to pay for you to go to this Highlander folk school, which you're going to get to that in a minute.

43:57 But yeah, they paid for her to go there. And she just did the exact same thing Claudette Covin did, who Durr represented. But they said, no, Claudette, you're not right for the role. And go back to what we said about the civil rights movement being a production, a TV production. Right on. And I said, right. right on. I'm sorry. Right on, right on. Right on, right on. So I actually dug up a clip of Miss Claudette Colby speaking. That day, when the bus driver asked me to get up, I had this feeling come over me.

44:40 It felt like Harriet Tubman was holding me down, hands were holding me down on one shoulder, and Sojonna True hands were holding me down on another shoulder. And I was glued to the seat, and I could hear the white passioners saying, She gotta move, she gotta move. That's the law, she gotta move. And I felt like this is my time to take a stand for justice. My name is Claudette Colvin, and in 1955, I refused to give up my seat to a white passenger on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks.

45:30 I was 15 years old. Okay, acting as the casting director for the bus scene of the movie, we're sorry, Miss Claudette. Your voice is just not going to cut it. We need someone to be upstanding and sound the part. You'll have to go. That's exactly what it was. It was cast. And then you top. Yeah, you topped that on with being allegedly pregnant. That wasn't going to flow. Not helpful. Not helpful. We're not going to be sympathetic to her. We can try and cover it up with some CGI. Oh, wait. We didn't have that.

46:13 Now, where are we at? Okay. Now we can get back to the Highlander School. Highlander School. Yeah. I don't want to hear about this. But this is why J. Edgar Hoover stayed on Martin Luther King so hard because he knew that he was a communist. He was, you know, he was a pawn of many different factions. And as I've stated previously, Martin Luther King attended a school known as the Highlander Folk School. Him, Ralph Abernaffy, and that lesbian, Rosa Parks, who they used. She was nothing but a secretary at the SCLC. It was really a young sister named Claudette Colvin who resisted getting up out of her seat on the bus. But they knew that they really couldn't use her because she was a 14-year-old girl who was pregnant.

CHAPTER 13 / 26 Discussion

Highlander Folk School and the Origins of We Shall Overcome

The Highlander Folk School in Tennessee served as a training ground for civil rights leaders and was frequently accused of communist ties. The school is also the birthplace of the anthem "We Shall Overcome," which was adapted from an old hymn by Septima Clark, Pete Seeger, and Guy Carowan. The song's tempo was specifically modified to facilitate marching, turning it into a powerful psychological trigger for the movement.

highlander folk school· miles horton· stanley levison· pete seeger· we shall overcome

46:56 So they decided to use Rosa Parks. I like how he says that lesbian. I couldn't validate that, but I wasn't going to clip it out for just the sack. I use clips as they are. I don't dink around with them to neglect them anyway. And if we do, then we let you know something was edited, of course. Yes. But I just left it in there. But as he said, the Highlander School was known for its communist ties. One, Mr. Miles Horton, he was an American educator, socialist, co-founder of the Highlander School Folk School.

47:35 Let's go down to, yeah, it says that I'm reading for Wiki here. It said the term communist was applied to Horton's teachings and Highlander School because the school's philosophy of bringing whites and blacks together in violation of segregation laws. No. No, not because you're bringing whites and blacks together because of your affiliations with actual known communists. And another man named Mr. Stanley Levison. Now, Mr. Stanley Levison was really close to Martin Luther King Jr. He was even considered a ghostwriter for Martin Luther King Jr.

48:15 Although no evidence of Levison having further ties to the CPUSA Communist Party USA, the FBI used earlier communist history to justify wiretaps and bugs in his office and his offices and hotel rooms of Martin Luther King Martin Luther King. It says FBI director J. Egger Hoover had long associated the civil rights movement with communism. So that just lets you know of who they're dealing with. Now, so that we know about the Highlander School and this rural school in Tennessee, we're not talking about the internet age. So to find out about some school in the middle of rural Tennessee that's pushing communist ideologies, you had to know somebody that knew somebody.

48:59 You see what I'm saying? Of course. But one of the little things, little known facts that I even found out myself while doing this show, and I always love doing that when I find out something I didn't know, I like to share with other people. The Highlander School. school song. It was in the civil rights struggle that Highlander became most famous and famous for a song. How that happened is a textbook example of Highlander working exactly the way it was designed. From the start, the civil rights movement had songs, lots of songs, but it didn't have a song. One unifying and irresistible anthem that not only said who they were, but that musically expressed all their hope, determination, and spirit.

49:45 Septima Clark, Pete Seeger, and a new young staffer named Guy Carowan began adapting an old hymn-turned labor song that Sylphia loved to sing. The word will was changed to shall. Some verses were fitted to the new movement's goals, and the tempo was changed so people could march to it better. It became we shall overcome. We shall overcome. Deep in my heart, I do believe we shall overcome. Wow. So, were those basically the lyrics to the song? They actually put the song together because it was not Shell as Will. It said, We uh we will overcome. So they slowed it down so you can march to it.

50:30 And we spoke on previous shows how this is a meme. Actually, it's a trigger when they play that song because we had three different clips using the same song and mainstream media to really trigger you and take you back to a certain place. Right. Interesting. And it came out of this little school in Tennessee. Interesting. Atlanta Pope School. Two white guys who put it together and released it. Just saying. Right. So, yeah. So I thought I was like, wow. That's cool. That's very cool. So, anyway, so now we understand that, of course, and you have to put it in context of, as you said, of the communism.

CHAPTER 14 / 26 Discussion

J. Edgar Hoover and the Claim of African Ancestry

Author Millie McGee presents research suggesting that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was a Black man passing for white. In her book, "Secrets Uncovered," McGee claims Hoover is part of her family lineage from Mississippi. This theory posits that Hoover's intense animosity toward Black leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Marcus Garvey stemmed from self-hatred and a desire to protect his secret identity.

j edgar hoover· millie mcgee· passing for white· fbi· genealogy

51:12 We had the, you know, there was a rumor of communists in Hollywood. There's just, you know, it was people getting blackballed. It wasn't just, you know, poor people trying to organize. I mean, it was the communists and the Communist Party was a problem in the United States of America. So enter FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, who was a total whack job and had his own political ambitions and motivations and friends and foes. So this, of course, could only lead to nastiness. So we have the protagonist in the story. Now we need the antagonist in the story, which is one Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.

51:51 Well, the narrative is Jager, Jay Edgar Hoover was this angry white man that wanted to take this successful young black man down. Well, not so fast. Tony Brown Journal was J. Edgar Hoover black. One of the most disliked white men in the black community, allegedly, was black himself. That rumor doesn't surprise those who observe some of those blacks who pass over and become white bigots to cover their tracks, or perhaps they just suffer from self-hatred. But it sent Millie McGee back to her family tree in Macomb, Mississippi, to see if the man who became synonymous with the FBI and the hatred of Martin Luther King Jr.

52:35 was himself her cousin, who had gone through the special underground railroad built from the South to Washington, D.C. for blacks who looked white enough to live as white people. Thank you very much for being with me. Thank you for having me. Your book, Secrets Uncovered, J. Edgar Hoover Passing for White. And I said passing for white because there's a question mark. Why the title Passing for White question mark? All right. So J. Edgar Hoover, not only was he a secret cross-dresser, he was also black. Yes.

53:19 I don't think longest training. That was not in my textbook. Of course not. But it doesn't work to the narrative of anything, anything. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing works with that story. This is so good. Let's let Tony Brown continue. Because when I first started writing the book, I did not realize that J. Edgar Hoover was actually in my lineage. And I was told it was rumors in the family that he was. And just rumors. So I knew that I had to put question mark until I did some research and made out for sure that he was a part of the family.

53:59 This is a pretty serious charge. And not because there's anything wrong with being black, but because of the other implications. implications. Do you feel comfortable making this charge that J. Edgar Hoover, are you saying in effect he was black? Is that what you're saying? I'm saying, in effect, that I'm a black woman, and he is in my family lineage. He is a part of my family. I don't necessarily like it. I didn't even know it when I started it. But when I found it out, I was looking for my great-great-grandmother, who is Emily Allen, who had babies by his ancestors.

54:43 And after doing my research, after two and a half years of research, I have, without a shadow of a doubt, in my heart and the documents, showing that he is a part of our lineage. Oh, man. So J. Edgar Hoover was Ados? Yes. Nice. He was a self-loathing, seems like a self-loathing black man. Now, did he have a hatred of was he known racist? Was he is there examples of him? Oh, yeah. Oh, yo, Camo. Don't have a stroke on me. I'm just asking a question.

CHAPTER 15 / 26 Discussion

Uncle Ruckus and the Psychology of Self-Hatred

The discussion introduces the character Uncle Ruckus from the animated series The Boondocks as a modern archetype for the self-loathing Black man. Ruckus is used as a satirical comparison to J. Edgar Hoover, illustrating the concept of a person who aggressively upholds white supremacy while disparaging their own race.

uncle ruckus· the boondocks· comedy central· satire· self-loathing

55:25 There was a couple data points. Okay. I mean, he hated MLK. He hated Marcus Garvey. Oh, yeah. That was the one there. He really hated Marcus Garvey. Yes. So that member, they called him the tiger. So if people want to go back and listen to the old archives, you know, you'll pick up on that. But it's this funny thing that J. Edgar Hoover was the original Uncle Ruckus. Your boy Cotton Baboon. Dance clear, you goddamn chunky cheek monkey.

56:07 Ruckus. What the hell is wrong with you? Down there Fair Robert. Hold on a second. I triggered that clip. Why do I not know what this is, Uncle Ruckus? You don't know who Uncle Ruckus is? No. And remember, I lived in Europe during a number of formative years, but Uncle Ruckus was like, this is new. Uncle Ruckus is from the show Boondocks, and he is the most self-hating black man known to man. Even though it's animation, he is known for his self-loathing. So much so, he says he has reverted LIGO. And he said he's originally born as a white man. I don't know.

56:50 What is this air on? What channel is this on? Comedy Central. You can catch it on, I mean, YouTube. Oh, yeah, I'll get a YouTube Hulu, everything. But it's Comedy Central Show. Oh, okay. Yes, Comedy Central Show. All right, I'm going to start the clip over. This is good. Your boy Cotton Baboon. Dance there, you goddamn chunky cheek monkey. Ruckus, what the hell is wrong with you? Down there, the fair robber. That held between me and Martin Luther King. Only King I know is ever friendly. God rest it. So oh, oh, you don't remember me. Well, I've been throwing bricks at your marching ass since 1959.

57:32 And so, brothers and sisters, you know I shut the hell up, you black sonbit. What's wrong with y'all? Thank God for the white man's infinite mercy, Martin Luther King. Because if it was up to me, I'd unleash the hound and turn y'all niggas in the puppet child. I was happy at the back of the bus. Why'd you have to go mess with the natural order of things? I'd have shot you myself. But I realized the white man got better. I ain't stop acting crazy. Man. This show is not nuts. Yeah, so that puts me in the mind of what J. Edgar Hoover was like.

CHAPTER 16 / 26 Discussion

FBI Surveillance of King's Private Life and Suicide Letter

Recently released documents from the National Archives detail the FBI's extensive surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s sexual behavior, including an alleged affair with singer Joan Baez. J. Edgar Hoover's FBI reportedly sent King a "suicide letter" and recordings of his infidelities to his wife, Coretta Scott King, in an attempt to break him. These tactics were part of a broader effort to neutralize King's influence.

j edgar hoover· fbi· coretta scott king· joan baez· national archives

58:16 Got it. Just got it. Okay. All right. So moving forward, I thought I would add that in there. Thank you. Just to show you. Hold on, I got to set my VCR now and make sure I kill you. Yeah. So just to show you how sinister J. Edgar Hoover was, let's listen to the U.S. National Archives. Well, there may be some. Among the treasure trove of CIA and FBI files released by America's National Archive last week were documents relating to the assassinated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. The FBI's director at the time, Edgar Hoover, detested King and suspected him of being a communist.

58:58 His spies discovered evidence to support that. But far more explosive for a man of God was King's sexual behavior. behavior, which the FBI discovered was promiscuous and even divided some of his followers. It included an affair with at least one celebrity, the folk singer and former girlfriend of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez. The Reverend King would never see some of his dreams realized, as he was shot dead just weeks after the FBI report was made in April 1968. It's unclear why the archives released the King documents, as they were not included in President Trump's order to publish files relating to the Kennedy assassination.

59:35 Oh, this was recent, huh? So, some Kennedy papers came out, and in the Kennedy file was this Martin Luther King couple briefs. Interesting. So, Martin Luther King Jr. Jay Edgar Hoover would call Coretta Scott King and play tapes, not him personally, but the FBI would call and play tapes of Martin Luther King Jr. Right. And I don't, you know what? If you're effective, your sex life doesn't really sway me one way or the other. That's why I really didn't get that. This is America. I told you this. It's always the sex stuff.

1:00:18 Right. You got to keep it in your pants. Right. So they tried to write this letter to King telling him to kill himself because they were going to expose him. Oh, brother. Yeah. Yeah. So that's how sinister J. Edgar Hoover was. So, but where Martin Luther King really got himself into trouble, it wasn't the civil rights movement. It wasn't any of that. And I wanted to read one quote that he was going to use at the March on Washington. It says, King had planned to cap his speech by exhorting people to go back to our communities as members of the International Association for Advancement of Creative Dissatisfaction International.

CHAPTER 17 / 26 Discussion

Vietnam War Opposition and the Third Rail of Politics

Martin Luther King Jr. faced severe backlash when he began speaking out against the Vietnam War, labeling the U.S. government as the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world." By connecting domestic civil rights to international military policy, King alienated the media and political allies who had previously supported his non-violent domestic protests. This shift is identified as the moment King became a true threat to the establishment.

vietnam war· military-industrial complex· bull connor· jim clark· anti-war speech

1:01:05 So he was on the globalist tip back then. Clearly. But he made a misstep. And that's when he started talking against the Vietnam War. To guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia, which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schoolroom.

1:01:47 So we watched them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village. But we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago or Atlanta. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men, I have told them that Molly Top cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. But they ask, and rightly so, what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problem.

1:02:29 And I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. Yeah. Yeah. Now, this to me shows that he was indeed very sincere because he saw he saw the hypocrisy, spoke out about it, but underestimated a number of things, including the military-industrial complex and just a Hulk. I mean, we could do a whole nother show on that alone. But yes, that's clearly, it's like, what?

1:03:12 Okay, King, now you've pushed us too far. And let's put it into context. He's saying these things about sending his people into a burning house. You have at this time, black people becoming more, they're growing tired of the non-violent resistance and leaning more towards, if nothing else, self-defense of the Malcolm X mindset. So they were like, if King starts to talk self-defense and anti-war and burning. Because he is effective. He's an effective speaker and motivator.

1:03:53 But he didn't stop there. King continues on about the Vietnam War. America and most of its newspapers applauded me in Montgomery. And I stood before thousands of Negroes getting ready to riot when my home was bombed and said, we can't do it this way. They applauded us in the sit-in movement. We nonviolently decided to sit in at lunch counter. They applauded us on the freedom rights when we accepted blows without retaliation.

1:04:34 Oh, the press was so noble in its applause and so noble in its praise when I was saying, be non-violent toward Bull Connor. There's something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say be non-violent toward Jim Clark, but will curse and damn you when you say be non-violent toward little brown Vietnamese children. There's something wrong with that press. Yeah. Yeah, he touched that third rail. And the fact that he bit the hand that had been friendly to him in the media, because he came to press in that

1:05:18 clip we just praised. Yes, and in the context of that is the Vietnam War was the first media war. It was mainly photojournalism, but there was also a lot of film coming in. And that's when Americans first really saw the ugliness of war as it was being reported. But I'm sure it was good for the ratings for the media. Well, that's an important moment in television history. Yes. Very good for the media. People are glued to it. We love war. Woo! So he had got to a point where he was like, okay, let me let me back up a little bit.

CHAPTER 18 / 26 Discussion

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The official narrative states that James Earl Ray fired a single shot from a nearby rooming house bathroom. CBS News reporter Ike Peppas describes the immediate aftermath and the assassin's escape, marking the end of King's life at age 39.

lorraine motel· memphis· james earl ray· ike peppas· assassination

1:05:55 So at this point, JFK has stepped in and Robert Kennedy had stepped in, like, King, we know who you're associated with. You got to cut those people off because of the communist ties. And right after that, JFK was assassinated, and MLK gives his views on JFK and MLK. The most devastating thing in Martin's life was the assassination of President Kennedy. He saw it as his own assassination. And he said,

1:06:35 if they can't protect the president, our days are numbered. Yeah, right on. I mean, I said it again. Yes. Yeah, I can understand. Yeah. And he was exactly right. Martin Luther King assassinated. Eyewitnesses to the assassination say that Dr. King left his room 3.06 at the Lorain Hotel just before dinner to get some air. He walked over to the railing at this spot, and noticing some friends below, he leaned over and began to speak with them. Police say 205 feet away, in a window in a flop house, the assassin waited.

1:07:17 He waited, police believe, in a bathroom down the hall from the room he rented but four hours earlier. To get a clear shot of his victim, the assassin apparently had to stand in the bathtub, leaning forward to brace his arms on the window ledge to steady his rifle. And this was the view he got. He fired a single shot, hitting his target squarely, and then he ran out of the bathroom and along the decrepit hallway. Turning, he raced down the rickety wood stairs and out. One policeman said he simply faded. Ike Peppas, CBS News, Memphis. And he was dead. Yeah. So.

CHAPTER 19 / 26 Discussion

Judge Joe Brown and the Murder Weapon Discrepancy

Judge Joe Brown, who presided over James Earl Ray's later legal appeals, asserts that the Remington 760 Game Master rifle in the Civil Rights Museum was not the murder weapon. Brown claims Ray was not the gunman and was not even in Memphis at the time of the shooting. He explains that Ray's guilty plea was an "Alford plea," made because Ray believed it was in his best interest rather than an admission of actual guilt.

judge joe brown· james earl ray· remington 760· memphis· alford plea

1:07:56 But the story doesn't end there because the narrative was lone shooter, racist guy, Earl Ray. James Earl wrote three names. Three names. We're always looking for three names. That's your three first name. Three first names. You're right. It's a trifecta. That's really a good one. It is that your ultimate white supremacist Nazi hate guy has three first names. James Earl Ray. Let me guess. It wasn't him? Not according to Judge Joe Brown. Did he, in fact, assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King?

1:08:35 And had he not died and his local attorney not died in close succession, it would have been my finding that he was not the gunman. That Remington 760 Game Master they've got in the Civil Rights Museum is not the murder weapon. It's not even close. And it was a two-man hit team that killed him from the fire station dormitory. It wasn't the flop house, and it wasn't in those bushes. So, yeah, I got into the deep details of Dr. King in that three or four year period that case was kicking around in front of me.

1:09:15 Wow. Okay, two-person hit job is a very, very, very different story. There was a thing called Operation Lantern Spike and Operation Chaos. So this is from Cynthia McKinney's 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Record Collection Act, which I love, Cynthia McKinney. I think she does great work when she was actually into politics. Yeah, yeah, I remember it. She was fantastic. She kind of. She herself got threatened, I believe. And she left Rumsville. She asked Rumsville about, what was it?

1:09:57 The little kids. I think it was the UN or somebody. I digress, but she questioned a lot of powerful people about the babies and incubators. That was one of the one, which was a total daughter of Hilen Knowlton, PR vice president. It was a total setup job just to get us into Iraq. Yeah. Yep. That was exactly it. So in this act, she said, describing her reasons for drafting the bill, McKinney stated the truth for MLK assassination has never been totally revealed. The FBI program, COINTELPR, the CIA project, Operation Chaos, and the Army Intelligence Operation Lantern Spy all worked together to prevent the rise of a black messiah and replace Martin Luther King Jr.

1:10:46 with a clean Negro. Well, we're going to get back to the Clean Negro. Oh, no. Okay. All right. All right. Yeah, we're going to get back there, but let's continue on with Judge Joe Brown. He didn't kill him. It's interesting. The homicide file for the Memphis Police Department reaches the same conclusion back in 1968. They entered their file in protest to the DA's office. Their conclusion was Ray is not the gunman. He was not even in Memphis that day. We know conclusively where he was. So why do you think he got convicted for the murder? Well,

1:11:28 he didn't get convicted. He pled guilty. You have to understand, though, the news media puts it out as he was the self-confessed killer of King. That's not true. All through the transcripts, the entirety of the record, he never confessed. And often he said, I never said I killed King. I didn't kill him. I'm pleading cause of Alford. That's A-L-F-O-R-D. It's a moderately old U.S. Supreme Court case. And it says, even if you are not actually guilty and you are pristinely innocent, you may plead guilty to the charge if you think that doing so is in your best interest.

1:12:12 Wow. That's like the reverse of the Fifth Amendment. I'm going to take the charge. That's basically. Yeah, I'll jump on the grenade basically. And I know people may, some people may be rolling their eyes like, come on, Mo. Here you go with your conspiracies. Not yet. I thought it was kind of tight. Yeah, put that thermometer on ice, though. I'm going to need it a little bit later. But the U.S. government found responsible for MLK. But only 15 years ago, something else happened. Something that changed everything we knew about Martin Luther King's death.

CHAPTER 20 / 26 Discussion

1999 Civil Trial and Government Conspiracy Verdict

In a 1999 civil trial brought by the King family, a jury found that multiple government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, were responsible for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The jury heard testimony from 70 witnesses, including Lloyd Jowers, who claimed to have assisted the actual sniper. The verdict concluded that James Earl Ray was a scapegoat and that the assassination was a coordinated conspiracy.

lloyd jowers· king family· civil trial· conspiracy· fbi· cia

1:12:56 And yet, most people still don't know about it. 15 years ago, the only trial ever held concerning the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. was concluded. And no, it wasn't done in someone's basement under the cover of tinfoil hats. There wasn't anyone with the word Illuminati carved in their forehead. And no, the jury wasn't made up of beavers wearing bow ties. Because if it were, I would have been there. This was a real live trial between the King family and the conspirators who killed Martin Luther King. All right. This was real. In a civil trial in 1999, a jury found U.S. government agencies, along with others, guilty of assassinating MLK in Memphis in 1968.

1:13:38 After hearing from 70 witnesses, including Lloyd Jowers, who assisted the sniper and owned a Jim's grill from which the shot was fired, the jury took less than an hour to decide that. one, multiple government agencies were responsible for the murder. Two, James Earl Ray, the man we've always been told, pulled the trigger, had nothing to do with it. And three, the mainstream media is a stain on the soul of this country. Who was that? I like this rap. That was for RRT. What is the guy's name? I'm sorry. Oh, I know the guy. Is that the wrong dark hair? Yeah, the Russian dark hair goatee.

1:14:17 Yeah, yeah. He kind of hates America, but he does it in a funny way. Yeah, but he brings up a good point. No, no. Mainstream media is no disagreement there. But this is kind of like the OJ trial with the civil trial, you know, where he's convicted in a civil trial. So the King family, again, this is why this show exists. I didn't know this. So there was an actual guilty verdict that two government agencies were involved. Let me guess. Multiple, not two, multiple. So it could be more than two.

1:14:54 Well, let me go back to my notes. Could it be the FBI and Cole Intel Pro, the CIA and Operation Chaos, and the military intelligence operation Lantern Spike? Maybe. Possibly. Who knows? And if that's true, if they took out the black Messiah, who is the clean Negro? So we're going to figure that out. The reason why, you've heard none of this. And I'm not saying this to toot my own horn, but we put a lot of work into putting this show together to have this conversation weekly. And we do get value for value. And I think that we don't thank people that really, you know, show us appreciation.

CHAPTER 21 / 26 Discussion

Jesse Jackson and the Balcony Photo Discrepancy

Jesse Jackson's account of the assassination is scrutinized, specifically his presence in the iconic photo of associates pointing from the balcony. The discussion points out that Jackson and others were pointing toward a window that the 1999 trial determined was not the source of the shots. This discrepancy is used to question Jackson's honesty regarding the events of that day.

jesse jackson· lorraine motel· andrew young· assassination· memphis

1:17:34 All right. So back to the Clean Negro. Jesse Jackson, FBI involved in MLK's murder. I remember somebody saying, get a little, get a little, because whoever it was if they spread the spread bullets, three or four of us in the courtyard. There's a picture of Andre Young, and somebody pointed that picture is saying the police are coming to drilling guns. The guns, the shot in the company, came that way. Go over the way the shot came from. That's what that picture was all about. I hate to replay that moment. He died so young. So listen. Such moral authority.

1:18:21 What do you remember thinking at the time as all of this is going on? I remember we were just saying that we cannot let one bullet kill a movement. We went on to Washington. And we did. Now, I got to be honest with you, Mo. It was difficult for me to understand everything he was saying. The middle part I got at the beginning was. was very was he was he showed talking about the picture of when MLK got shot? Well, the reason why I played this clip was his account he's out there pointing in the wrong direction from where the trial that we just spoke about said the shots actually came from.

1:19:03 Oh, it didn't come from that window y'all were pointing at. You know, the iconic picture where they're all pointing. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That was bullshit. Excuse my language. I hardly ever use that. That was complete bull cocky. Right. What are you pointing at, Jesse? So the bullets didn't come from that. You say you were there and you heard the shots come. Okay, you hear shots come from somewhere and you point in the wrong direction and everybody's pointing in the wrong direction. That's bull crap. Bull crap. And that's why I played that to catch him up in his own words. Now Thurman. Yes, sir.

CHAPTER 22 / 26 Discussion

Steve Cokely on Jesse Jackson as an Infiltrator

Researcher Steve Cokely alleges that Jesse Jackson was an agent placed within Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle to monitor and eventually replace him. Cokely suggests that King was becoming aware of Jackson's role as an infiltrator shortly before the assassination. The segment posits that Jackson was the "clean Negro" chosen by the establishment to lead the movement in a more manageable direction.

steve cokely· jesse jackson· boule· cointelpro· infiltrator

1:19:44 Now we're going to get to allegedly, I have to say this: allegedly, who killed Martin Luther King by none other than Mr. Steve Coakley? Poctor is the one who was picked to replace Martin King, but Jesse is the one he trained. If you had spent all this time on putting him in place and you ain't got nobody else around Martin, now Andy was supposed to be shot with Martin, but Andy wasn't on the balcony, was on the floor, so he didn't get it.

1:20:20 Ralph was inside, so he didn't get it. Key point: if you spent all that time, and Martin's about to say you were an agent, do you understand that you got to press go on the assassination? Because now Martin is so continuously condemning you, you got wiretaps everywhere. And we know what he said about Jesse in front of everybody, but who knows what he said when it was just him and Ralph? How much more severe were his accusations? Wait a minute. Is this Martin Luther King Jr. Jesse Jackson was an infiltrator? Did I understand that? Yes, that's exactly what you understood. Oh,

1:21:01 and that's from one, Mr. Steve Coakley, the same one that broke us to the Boule on previous shows. And he fingered Martin Luther King as a bullet member. So it's not like he's teen king. No, no, it's not out of the realm for his overall thinking. Yeah. So, and a little tidbit of information. The story is all the people that were in on it didn't wear neckties that day. I've heard this. I have heard this one. And I think that might have been put in a movie somewhere. Yes. And another little tidbit: there's a story. There's an argument: did Martin Luther King Jr.

CHAPTER 23 / 26 Discussion

The Bloody Turtleneck and the Legend of Jesse Jackson

Following King's death, Jesse Jackson appeared on television wearing a bloody turtleneck, claiming he had cradled King's head. Other associates, however, maintain that Jackson was in the parking lot and later smeared King's blood on his clothes for a "distasteful" media stunt. This act is compared to Jackie Onassis appearing in her blood-stained suit, serving to cement Jackson's status as King's successor.

jesse jackson· bloody turtleneck· jackie onassis· clout chasing· lorraine motel

1:21:46 die at the scene of the assassination or was he killed in the hospital? Yeah. This is an ongoing argument that was actually going on yesterday. And I found it quite entertaining that maybe he was. I didn't put that in the show, but that is a conversation as well. Because he actually, some people say he actually didn't succumb to his gunshot wounds. A la the kid in Washington, D.C. Has anyone really documented this story the way you've been unfolding it so far? Is this in any movie?

1:22:28 Who's going to fund it? I'm not being facetious. I'm just saying that. What am I thinking? Let's go back to the top of the show. What is Martin Luther King? He's the trigger to keep black people in control. If you let these little nuances and we can't have humanistic properties of him even to the burning house, yeah, not no. That will ruin the effect of the trigger. I have a dream. Be nonviolent. You know, every time, you know, play along. Yeah. Anytime people start getting riled up, it's calm back down. But let's let Steve Coakley continue on.

1:23:11 Now, what's happening? NBC Meet the Press, the most watched Sunday news program, goes back to this moment that we're out teaching is a point of distrust and evidence of Martin's dislike to Jesse. They go right back to that spot, put him right on Rockefeller's NBC, toss that ball right up, and say, Jesse, now when I toss this ball up, I want you to stuff it home. So he puts a circle around Jesse's head and a circle. circle around Martin's head, calls it close, and says you were one of Martin's closest associates. What did Martin King say to you the night before he died? Oh man.

1:23:52 So the media was complicit in because actually, Ralph Abernathy was Martin Luther King's right-hand man. And he was picked to be next in line. But he had tax problems. He even had, Jesse Jackson even had bigger tax problems than him, but no, I was going to say, you get, you don't have tax problems. The IRS creates your tax problems. And for some people, they don't create the tax problems. And the story is that Jesse Jackson owed multiples of what Ralph Abernathy owed, but he wasn't bothered.

1:24:36 So let's continue on with this conspiracy theory. I had to say it like that. And this is all alleged. But did Jesse Jackson set up MLK? Despite his official inclusion on King's staff, King soon found himself unimpressed with aspects of Jackson's personality. He was especially troubled with Jackson's reflective ability to escalate encounters with government officials, police departments, and innocent bystanders. Now, as King lay dying on the balcony of the Lorain Motel, Jackson claims and has claimed since 1968 that he was the last to speak to King and cradle King's head as he died.

1:25:16 Jackson then appeared on Chicago television the next day, wearing a bloody turtleneck that he said was stained with the blood of the fallen civil rights leader. King associates have always challenged Jackson's self-described role on that day as fabricated and distasteful. Jackson, in reality, was in the parking lot below. Critics also claimed that Jackson went so far as to wipe King's blood on his shirt for the sole purpose of going on television to build his own legend. Oh man, he pulled a Jackie O enlighten me.

1:25:55 Jacqueline Onassis, wife of John F. Kennedy, had, you know, allegedly parts of his brains on her dress, and she appeared in several photographs. Oh, really? I didn't know this. Yeah. But yeah, he did pull a Jackie O because the word was nobody talked to the media. Nobody, that was what was going around. He puts blood on his shirt, throws right out there. Yeah, I'm the right-hand man to Martin Luther King Jr. goes on. I mean, even if it did happen, if it was the turtleneck, it's the next day and he's wearing it, still wearing it.

CHAPTER 24 / 26 Discussion

Mysterious Death of A.D. King in 1969

Alfred Daniel (A.D.) King, the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr., was found dead in his swimming pool in July 1969, just 15 months after his brother's assassination. Although officially ruled an accidental drowning, the family and various researchers suspect foul play. The segment draws parallels between the tragedies of the King family and the Kennedy family.

alfred daniel king· drowning· assassination· ed gordon· unsolved history

1:26:37 It's highly inappropriate. That is the ultimate clout chase of modern terms. I mean, that's, I mean, there's biblical comparisons for what he did with that. Yeah. Yeah. But the sad thing is the deaths didn't stop for the King family. And the King and the Kennedy families have so much in common. And it's kind of sad. Adam, these next two clips, just to quiz you, did you know they assassinated MLK's a mysterious drowning left a family in shock and a king's legacy lost in the shadows?

1:27:20 Was his death an accident or murder? Alfred Daniel King. Love must be expanded not only to our obvious enemies, but to those within ourselves. The younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr. was set to continue his brother's legacy. But just 15 months after Martin was assassinated, sad news for all of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world. And that is that Martin Luther King Jr.

1:28:01 A.D.'s life was cut short too. In this groundbreaking television event, we reveal the story of A.D. King, his legacy, his leadership, his death. I'm Ed Gordon. We'll tackle that question on the 50th anniversary of the King assassination with new details on the death of A.D. King. Unsolved history. Life of a King. Wow. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that. that. What I do know is that we need to have some kind of music, you know, some kind of scary music or something to really draw you in. Otherwise, you don't understand the direness of the situation.

1:28:48 So, on July 21st, 1969, nine days before his 39th birthday, Alfred Daniel William King, Martin Luther King's brother, was found dead in his swimming pool at his home. It said the cause of death was listed as accidental, but people don't see it that way. I can understand. And you're right, the parallels with the Kennedys is crazy. But it doesn't stop there. Did you know they assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.? Well, I was sitting in the back, and that's why I got a better look at him. Because as he was shooting, it was such a shock.

CHAPTER 25 / 26 Discussion

Assassination of Alberta King and the Troop

In 1974, Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother, Alberta King, was assassinated inside a church by Marcus Wayne Chennault. Chennault was allegedly part of a group called "The Troop," based out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which targeted Black religious leaders. The lack of media exploitation of this tragedy is compared to the handling of the Seth Rich case, suggesting a suppression of certain narratives.

alberta king· marcus wayne chennault· black hebrew israelites· wright-patterson air force base· seth rich

1:29:31 I was standing there. I couldn't believe I thought it was something like, you know, a targon with blinks or something. They knew you were down the front or in the middle of the time. Right after he's shot, you know, I seen some people falling. Then I knew then I knew. I said, yeah, he's shooting for real. You know, then this gentleman says, fall to the floor. And I fell. Everyone started falling and falling. He was located on the right side of the pulpit. He went rapidly in front of the church. No, he stood up and just started shooting. He was sitting that's right. He just stood up and started shooting. Did he shoot up towards the corner? He's shooting everywhere. He was shooting like that.

1:30:11 Okay, and who was that? On June 30th, 1974, Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated inside a church by Marcus Wayne Chennault, a 23-year-old black man from Ohio who had adopted an extremist version of the theology, Black Hebrew Israelites. And that comes forward, fast forward to now with that we heard that group in the news. Yes. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. It's the kids, the kids with the MAGA hats who were at the pro-life rally and they were being

1:30:53 yelled at by the black Israelites. And I believe the shooting of a Jewish deli or store in New Jersey. Yep, and the rabbi killing. And the rabbi killing, right? Yeah. But hold on. Theremin. Oh, hold on. I just put it in the case, man. Hold on a second. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Here it is. Mr. Wayne Chenault. Yes. He was a little person. But not only that, he was allegedly part of a group of black assassins called the Troop. The troop was ran out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

1:31:38 His name or code name was Little Professor. They targeted, they were targeted for assassination of most American leading black religious and spiritual leaders straight out of COINTEL PRO and Project Chaos. Wow. That's pretty mind-blowing. Oh, man. I love that. Had you heard of these two family members being killed? No. Well, maybe. Well, why not is obvious because what was the quote about the M5M? Yeah. Disdain.

1:32:20 Exactly. His mom being killed in a church vaguely, vaguely, vaguely, but not as an assassination, never characterized as such. Never thought, I don't know if there was ever any trials or none of that. No, absolutely not. Which is, of course, why I show up every week so I can be schooled. And you would think that the women's right movement will latch on to her as a, you know, not only did King die, you know, his mom, you know, you know how they do exploit it. They were exploited in some kind of way. You know, it's not been exploited ever, to my knowledge.

1:33:00 Whenever I see that, when they don't exploit something, that is a tell huge rag flag to me. It's the same as the one with the guy. I brought his name early. I mean, brought him up early, but not by name. The kid in DC that got killed by the work for the DNC. Seth Rich. Seth Rich. I always forget his name. The fact when they didn't use him as an example of gun violence. Was pretty telling. What was also the wrong gun? gun. It wasn't some scary-looking AR-15. It was a 22 pistol. But yeah, your point is totally right. But it was in Washington, D.C., a gun-free zone. And it was a white guy. And it was a white guy. I mean, obviously, you know,

CHAPTER 26 / 26 Discussion

James Earl Ray Plaque Error and Final Reflections

The show concludes with a "Factor or Fiction" story about a 2002 MLK Day plaque in Lauderhill, Florida, that accidentally thanked assassin James Earl Ray instead of actor James Earl Jones. The hosts reflect on the importance of looking at history with fresh eyes and questioning mainstream narratives. The episode ends with the song "Mr. Dream Merchant."

james earl ray· james earl jones· lauderhill· florida· factor or fiction

1:33:45 white guy getting gunned down needs some news attention. But one of your own, one of your DC A DMC workers. So, I mean, like, it just struck me. Nah, nah. No, no tragedy goes unexploited. Yes, correct. So I know this has been a rough ride. No, it's been a beautiful ride. It's been the roller coaster of my life. But I found this quirky little clip, and I thought it was a good way to end it because it was just no, this has been like a, I don't know, a very sad show in a way, but very

1:34:27 informative. Enlightening and informative as well. Accidentally honored on MLK Day. Tonight's Factor of Fiction is brought to you by America's finest carpet. In tonight's Factor Fiction, we're looking into a story involving a stunning Martin Luther King Jr. As the story goes, a plaque made for a 2002 MLK Day celebration in Florida gave thanks to Dr. King's assassin, James Earl Ray. And amazingly, this one is true. For their annual MLK Day celebration, the people of Lauderhill, Florida invited actor James Earl Jones to be their featured speaker. In appreciation, they ordered a plaque and were horrified when it came with an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive.

1:35:11 AdPro, the company that made the plaque, claimed the error was an innocent, albeit stupid mistake. The plaque was corrected in time for the celebration. Man, that's horrible. Thank you, James Earl Ray, for keeping the dream alive. Oh, man. Hey, James Earl Ray, do the CNN voice. Oh, man. Well, Mo. Man, this was great. And yes, it is, in a way, it's sad, but no, not really, because look at where we are. Look at what's taking place right now. None of this conversation might have ever happened without MLK.

1:35:51 Without, I mean, obviously, events unfold and they have to unfold in a certain way for the future and the current to take place at all. But it's great because we get to learn from this story and hopefully look at lots of people with fresh eyes. Jesse Jackson for sure. That was the goal is to give you information that the mainstream media just refuses to let out, even though it's well-documented, is court cases.

1:36:33 It's not, you know, tenfold hat, you know, Dorito dust thing, you know, that, you know, that meme or tropes they put out there for conspiracy theories. These are real facts. There are some dots to connect, but as I always say, pay attention to everything and the truth will reveal itself. And we will return in a week's time. Remember us at MoFundMe.com. We'll see you in a week, everybody. Bye-bye. Bring her back to me. Make my dreams come true.

1:37:47 I didn't mean to make a cry. I didn't realize about love. Now I need it by my son. Dreamer. Bring her back to me. Make them my dreams come true. Make them come true, yeah, yeah. All on the end. Mr. Dream Merchant Would you please please do me a favor

1:38:33 You should happen to see my baby somewhere Would you please tell I'm waiting with open arms Would you please make my dreams come true Baby, baby, baby, please please Mr. Dream Merchant Everything, everything is all new Oh bring her back new

1:39:11 new I need a, I need a, I need a yeah, yeah Bring it back to me