Abstract

On the Humanity of Saints

According to the author, just the other day he saw in the paper that a black college in the South, about to name a dorm after U.S. clergyman Ralph Abernathy, decided not to do so, apparently because of what he had written in his autobiography about Martin Luther King Jr.'s sexual behavior the night before he was assassinated. This and much else going on in black and civil rights circles in relation to King and Abernathy are absurd but revealing. It tells people something about themselves, both as Americans and as liberals or leftists. The author thinks everyone, even King's followers, owes Abernathy a debt of gratitude, if he was telling the truth. The author would name the dorm for him, after all. He's not bothered by the fact that King was immersed in life, whatever shape it may have taken, a few hours before his death, according to him.