Few figures are as revered as Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights icon and man of deep faith, credited with uniting a racially divided America in the 1960s. But what if his reputation and legacy are more well-crafted myths than historical facts, intentional lies to subvert black communities and American society in favor of Marxist ideas?
That's the argument Chad O. Jackson makes in his new documentary series "The MLK Project," premiering October 3 at historev.com.
Jackson recently sat down with "1819 News: The Podcast," where he and 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson had a wide-ranging discussion about the evidence for King's debauched lifestyle and detrimental impact on black Americans.
Through painstaking research, Jackson — a business owner, independent historian and filmmaker — uncovered disturbing facts about King's life that paint a picture of a calculated, manipulative philanderer rather than a role model for moral living.
"The more I delved into the history, the more I realized that Martin Luther King was not a friend. He was actually a foe, and a very deliberate foe, and a deceptive foe," Jackson said. "Someone who basically masqueraded as a pastor even though he didn't actually believe or practice the gospel. I wanted to understand, well, why was that? And so when I began to find the answers, I felt that more and more people needed to know this stuff. And so that's why I set out to make this docuseries."
Jackson described King as an "actor" and a "really good orator," who used his status as leader of the civil rights movement to advance government interests and Marxist causes and subvert the church with false liberation theology.
"He was a very beautifully colored Trojan horse, and people are still enamored of its colors and not really recognizing it for the Trojan horse that it is," Jackson said.
A pastor and civil leader by day and a sexual deviant and womanizer by night, Jackson claims King's private life diverted wildly from his public persona as racial savior, an image maintained with the help of the corporate media.
"They went through painstaking efforts to make him this kind of larger-than-life figure, and they did it up against this kind of backdrop of race oppression, which we find out now much of it was exaggeration, exacerbation, and not only that, instigation," Jackson said. "We find out that they were instigating a lot of race tension in this kind of Hegelian dialectic type of way in order that King and his contingent might come out and look like the heroes, look like they're saving the day against these events and the struggle that blacks are going through in the South."
He added, "Whenever I say these things and I deliver the evidence and I show the receipts to people, black or white today, as I said, most people have the ear to hear, they listen, they consider, and most people are thankful and grateful for the information. However, there are some who aren't. And what's interesting to me is the white people who aren't, because what they'll say is, 'You know, well, Chad, again, all these things that you're saying, even if they are true, King still did a lot of good things. He helped bring the races together. He's a good man.' And part of me wonders, as a black man, why do you feel that way? Because here I am, and I can actually see, like as a researcher and an independent historian, I can see the detrimental effect that his rhetoric and his movement had genuinely on black America. I can see that. And I was robbed of something. My generation was robbed of something because of the civil rights movement."
Recently, some people have drawn comparisons between King and the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, both popular figures who had major impacts on society, before and after their assassinations. However, Jackson said the analogy couldn't be more off base.
"King was basically advocating for government to be a fixture in every aspect of human life. That's what he was advocating for, centralization of power," Jackson said. "That was his thing. Charlie was encouraging young men to put aside vice, to get married, to be men of honor, to be women of virtue. He was advocating for practical, biblically based wisdom."
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