It is so hard these days to find fact-based truth. Much has been said about the role of mass and social media and their contributions to the lack of veracity in reporting. Today we are confronted with how truth, finally coming to bear, can overturn our deepest held notions.
I told a friend last Martin Luther King Day, that I did not hold the Doctor in as much regard as the general public. The reason being, he was a serial womanizer. My friend having never heard that before was quick to label my reason as fake news. I tried to explain that it was a known fact but had been kept under wraps for fear of diminishing the good things King had done.
The day of reckoning is now coming closer as we have a biographer, David Garrow, writing of Doctor King’s dalliances in graphic detail. (The WSJ reports that his article was published in Britain because American publishers turned it down.) These accounts will not fade under the test of accuracy and will certainly be upheld once recordings of events come to light in 2027, when FBI tapes of certain events are released.
With so much being bantered about regarding what may or may not have occurred with President Trump’s campaign and administration, we can only hope that, in the end, we have a true and accurate accounting of what happened. Was the full force of the US government used to subvert a political candidate and duly elected President? If so, who did what? Will people, like my friend in this instance, choose to ignore information that counters their deeply held notions? When the truth does come to light, what are the implications for our society and political norms? Will the truth really set us free?
Current Day Publius 
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Randall Kilgore, CPA
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Not knowing for sure if I am that friend of truth questioning, but I offer the following:
My view was to question facts but also ask, “What diminishes the world-improving accomplishments of those that we hold in high regard?” If we found out that Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, had multiple affairs (please just take this as an example as I have no knowledge if he was even married or had mistresses), how would that alter our view of this individual.
For MLK, I knew of reports of his womanizing, with only 1 documented fact of an actual affair. Certainly, he attracted woman for the person he was. If he is found to have violated his personal vows, and done so in a philandering way (not just once, but all the time as defined), how much does this detract from the human rights direction he espoused and brought us forward to reduce discrimination. As a person, our views of that behavior should rightfully cast a negative light on his person, but how do we weigh these actions against those of his work?
I am sure the “facts” will come out and it will be interesting to see how much defense is established to counter those. I am not one to ignore facts once they are presented with support. I also don’t like by tax money spent on witch hunts.
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