Why I chose to tackle Obama's sexuality
Late one night about a year ago, I received a call from the mysterious Charles Johnson. Mother Jones calls Johnson, "Twitter's most infamous right-wing troll." Whatever. Johnson knows stuff, much of it true.
He asked me whether I had read David Garrow's massive 2017 Obama biography, "Rising Star." When I said I had, he asked whether I had read the paperback version. I had not. He pointed me to a particular page and told me to go get the paperback.
Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian, knows stuff too. Although I disagree with his politics, I admire Garrow's nerve.
In June 2019, Garrow published a piece in the British journal Standpoint entitled, "The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr." Two-dozen American media outlets, including the New York Times, had refused to run Garrow's highly newsworthy article.
Having exhaustively reviewed FBI documents, Garrow reported that King had been taped encouraging a fellow minister to rape a woman and actually witnessed the rape.
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The FBI transcription of the audio, concluded Garrow, "poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible."
To no one's surprise, the America media did their best to ignore this story, and Garrow is lucky they did. The Pulitzers might have taken their prize back.
Obama is not quite the sacred cow King is, but he runs a close second, especially on the subject of sex. Although Garrow is no fan of mine, I am, with reservations, a fan of his. I decided to check out the paperback.
On page 113, I found the excerpt not included in the original version of "Rising Star." It came from a letter Obama wrote to his college girlfriend, Alex McNear….
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