MLK/FBI (2020)
45KMLK/FBI: Directed by Sam Pollard. With Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones. Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard’s resonant film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“MLK/FBI could have put forth 3 main issues with more power. That leaves it open to still hear extremists on the partisan left or partisan right continue justifying only part of imperfect MLKu0026#39;s world. While they ignore so many the great and thoughtful insights he stood for.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e1) The FBI under misguided ruler-ship (Hoover u0026amp; Sullivan) taking advantage of findings on surveillance (authoritarianism+) or manufacturing items if hard facts arenu0026#39;t found. This is the worst, and it shows how a monied public agency doesnu0026#39;t always serve truth and who pays for it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e2) Communist party involvement disproven by MLKu0026#39;s own stated beliefs, including his outing of more than one person involved in communism. The Alt-R and some voices in the post 1990 pay-triot movement, John Birchers, etc, hold onto this notion though apparently false.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e3) MLKu0026#39;s adulterous activities werenu0026#39;t clarified until the end of the film, though much of that may have been beyond its scope. No matter, this should have been better explained during the FBIu0026#39;s tapping of his hotel rooms. That would serve we who try to do well, to be vigilant that our private and public lives are on the same high ground.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRegardless, itu0026#39;s a film documentary worth seeing, though it lacked details that could have been covered.”
