February 5, 2025 • 11 mins
Roland warns that MAGA will try use MLK files to destroy his character, legacy
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something else happened today that I need to warn y'all.
So Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying all of
the papers regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,
(00:23):
Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Let them explain to y'all what's about to happen. What's
about to happen In five or six years, the FBI
so called recordings of doctor King were set to be released.
(00:51):
Those will now be released. The FBI, who I simply
do not believe, claims that doctor King. They have recordings
of doctor King having affairs involved in orgies. They claimed
that he was with a white prostitute in Las Vegas.
(01:12):
And these were all notes. David Gare wrote a story.
No American media entity would run the story. So he
went through a small outlet overseas and there were there
were the notes. And these these notes were part of
the JFK papers at the Library of Congress and National Archives,
and so he was able. So he wrote a service
based upon the notes. So Charlie Kirk Turnpoint USA when
(01:38):
he did all these videos trash and King. Oh, we
shouldn't be celebrating him. Let him explain to you why
they doing this here. I just want y'all to understand
what's about to come down. They are going to try
to completely to destroy the legacy of doctor King. I
(01:59):
guarantee you that, I guarantee you when these papers are
released and you get the recordings and all the stuff
from the FBI, people are gonna say, take his name
off of streets, take his name off of elementary schools.
Take oh, we should not have programs honoring him, We
(02:20):
should not have scholarship programs. He was not a moral man.
I'm telling y'all, don't think for a second that this
executive order signed by Trump or it's all about. Let's
just get at the truth of what happens. I'm telling
y'all right now, and let me just be on records
right now in advance of whatever is released. And I'm
(02:42):
just gonna say this here. And I remember, and I'm
gonna quote my Bill Alpha brother Andrew Young, when I
asked him this question. I think we actually got it
on tape as well, in the interview that I did
with him in Atlanta, when I asked him about this
very thing, and he said, fuck, listen, to me, Listen
(03:03):
to me. Clearly, anything that is released related to the
private life of doctor King, who was not a perfect man.
No man or woman is perfect. Anything released from the
FBI and jed Gehoover and his colt Intaeil program is
(03:26):
full of shit. They tried to get a King to
kill himself, They doctor tapes, they sent stuff to Correta
Scott King. I absolutely believe nothing, absolutely nothing that comes
from this FBI as it relates to Reverend doctor Martin
(03:48):
Luther King Junior and j Edgar Hoover's name shouldn't even
be on the FBI building here in Washington, d C.
Because he was a racist, corrupt, evil son of a bitch.
And that should be the reaction every black America gives
(04:08):
when anything comes out about doctor King released from this
federal government and from this FBI.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Great go ahead, I agree with you, of course, this
is the only reason that these documents are being declassified.
We know Robert Kennedy Junior believes there was conspiracy to
that's ate his uncle, and I agree with that in concept.
(04:39):
I don't think James already killed Martin Luther King, and
I don't think those shots came from the grassy over
the grassad the school Depository building.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Man, you know, there's a lot of scholarship on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It, and people will argue you take sides, but let's
be crystal clear about the King files.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It is exactly what you said. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I will say though, that I think John Hooper, John
Hoover's name should be on the building because the FBI
is a criminal enterprise. I don't think that for the
same reasons that the MAGA people think.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I think that it's a.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Criminal enterprise because as a person of African descent, it
has never done anything other than attack and persecute and
prosecute us. So I'm glad to see Leonard Peltier at
home after decades. But aside, of course can't come back.
And so you know, but that haven't been said. What
(05:30):
you have just said. We really, I mean, folks, listen
to everything tonight, but listen very carefully to this.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We need to brace for this.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Because you know, I think about some of the most
brilliant thinkers.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The Elogians.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We have everybody from Jeremiah right to Bashtime McKenzie, and
you know, that world is a world that is populated
by human beings, and we often hold our people the
standards that.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Other people don't.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I'm not saying we shouldn't, but I'm saying that
we don't allow our people to be human. And doctor
King didn't make it forty years old. And I'm glad
you evoked David Garrol. David Garrow is a first class researcher.
He's done so much important work. Anybody get his book
Rising Sun on Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You won't look at Obama the same.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It always cracks me up when people say y'are are
critical of Obama and people opening their mouths and have
never read one word of one sentence, one paragraph of
one page anything about Barack Obama. You read David Garrol,
you look at the whole world differently. But and even
Jonathan Agg's recent book on King came out a couple
of summers ago, but it doesn't displace what Martin Luther
(06:48):
King did. Unlike the young girl lover Matt Gates, unlike
the convicted sexual predator Donald, unlike Damn Near, the whole
Republican party, doctor King gave his life. But everybody, regardless
of color. And so I'll just end with this, and
(07:09):
I just want to underscore what you said, Roland and really,
really really support what you said, every word of it,
and please people when these tapes are revealed, and they're
only revealed because they want to take who they think
is the champion, the central figure representing the moral standard
(07:30):
of African people, which is the only reason there is
a funky criminal enterprise called United States of Americans. Be
very clear about that. And I don't think that it's
going to take a century to claw back, because I
don't think you guys say it's going to be here
in the century, not in the current form, not in
this current form.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I think it's inevitable. That's why they're pulling out the
steps now.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Steve Bannon is very clear about this, and I joined
him shoulder to shoulder and.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Say, you're absolutely right, mister Bannon.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Y'all don't have another play with but this, this is the
only play you have, and it's going to fail.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's going to fail anytime.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The Damn ADL is supporting Elon Musk, who is openly
supporting the AfD in Germany, a damn neo Nazi party.
It's very clear that everybody going for themselves, so guess
what we are too.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But when they come for Doctor King and the way
they're going to come for Doctor King.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Any one of you nigroes that runs out and talking
about taking down a statue or rejecting Martin Luther King,
I want you to keep that same energy for every
one of.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
These sexual, sexually.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Frustrated, lated knight punk deviants who are running this government
and running industry, because if you think you can measure
Martin Luther King by standard and not measure them by
the standard, then you are betraying not only are people,
you're betraying your own humanity.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
What the work that we do Joan not Brena Funk
fan Club. You heard we just talked about there, Folks,
I can't reiterate this enough. Listen to me, clearly, I
cannot reiterate this enough. When you've got technology companies running scared,
when you've got legacy media not doing their job, when
you got black on media that has disintegrated. Now is
(09:03):
more than ever for us to have independent media that
cares about the truth, that is willing to say what
needs to be said. So when you support Roland Martin
Unfiltered this show, when you support the Blackstar Network, you're
not just supporting me, You're supporting the other shows. Our
goal is to add two more shows this year. We
(09:25):
want additional shows. We want more weekly and daily shows
because we want to be able to speak truth to power.
We want to be able to save what is necessary
where other people are scared, and when you are scared,
when you're looking over your shoulder, Oh my god, that
advertising contract is not going to come in. Well, guess
what a lot of these major agencies, they're not talking.
(09:47):
They're not even supporting us anyway. You know, in six
years of doing this show, Group m hasn't done a
damn thing with us, Poplicis hasn't done anything with us.
You've got Horizon, You've got all of these folks. They
haven't done Jack. And so we are calling it like
we see it, and we're speaking truth. And unlike some
(10:07):
of these other so called progressives and people who believe
in truth, I'm not running around trying to kiss Maga
ass and kiss Trump's ass. I won't be going to
mar Largo, not for a damn thing. And so this
is about us being able to speak truth. So when
you support this show on this network with your resources,
(10:28):
it is exactly what is happening. Because we are trying
to build something that is bigger and broader, and actually
it has the courage to say what needs to be said,
even when it makes other folks uncomfortable. You want to
contribute giving cash app use the stripe QR code. This
is it right here, and if you are listening, simply
(10:49):
go to Blackstar Network dot com to check it out. Also,
because you want to see your checking money, order some
of y'all old school, we understand that see your checking
money order to Peelbox five seven one ninety six, Washington,
DC two zero zero three seven Dad zero one nine six, PayPal,
our Martin unfiltered, ven mos r M unfiltered, Zell rolling
(11:09):
at Rowland, s Martin dot com, rolling at Roland, markednfilter
dot com.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And again, folks, we've got some four million social media followers.
If only twenty thousand of our fans contribute at least
fifty bucks each, which comes out to four dollars and
nineteen cents a month thirteen cents a day. That's a
million dollars, allows us to be able to continue to build,
to add these shows and do the work that's required.
So your support is needed, so please join our Bring
(11:35):
the Funk Vanclub today. If you have not already joined,
if you have given to us in the past, please
renew your commitment because it's important that we support black
on media, because black on media matters.
Something else happened today that I need to warn y'all.
So Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying all of
the papers regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,
(00:23):
Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Let them explain to y'all what's about to happen. What's
about to happen In five or six years, the FBI
so called recordings of doctor King were set to be released.
(00:51):
Those will now be released. The FBI, who I simply
do not believe, claims that doctor King. They have recordings
of doctor King having affairs involved in orgies. They claimed
that he was with a white prostitute in Las Vegas.
(01:12):
And these were all notes. David Gare wrote a story.
No American media entity would run the story. So he
went through a small outlet overseas and there were there
were the notes. And these these notes were part of
the JFK papers at the Library of Congress and National Archives,
and so he was able. So he wrote a service
based upon the notes. So Charlie Kirk Turnpoint USA when
(01:38):
he did all these videos trash and King. Oh, we
shouldn't be celebrating him. Let him explain to you why
they doing this here. I just want y'all to understand
what's about to come down. They are going to try
to completely to destroy the legacy of doctor King. I
(01:59):
guarantee you that, I guarantee you when these papers are
released and you get the recordings and all the stuff
from the FBI, people are gonna say, take his name
off of streets, take his name off of elementary schools.
Take oh, we should not have programs honoring him, We
(02:20):
should not have scholarship programs. He was not a moral man.
I'm telling y'all, don't think for a second that this
executive order signed by Trump or it's all about. Let's
just get at the truth of what happens. I'm telling
y'all right now, and let me just be on records
right now in advance of whatever is released. And I'm
(02:42):
just gonna say this here. And I remember, and I'm
gonna quote my Bill Alpha brother Andrew Young, when I
asked him this question. I think we actually got it
on tape as well, in the interview that I did
with him in Atlanta, when I asked him about this
very thing, and he said, fuck, listen, to me, Listen
(03:03):
to me. Clearly, anything that is released related to the
private life of doctor King, who was not a perfect man.
No man or woman is perfect. Anything released from the
FBI and jed Gehoover and his colt Intaeil program is
(03:26):
full of shit. They tried to get a King to
kill himself, They doctor tapes, they sent stuff to Correta
Scott King. I absolutely believe nothing, absolutely nothing that comes
from this FBI as it relates to Reverend doctor Martin
(03:48):
Luther King Junior and j Edgar Hoover's name shouldn't even
be on the FBI building here in Washington, d C.
Because he was a racist, corrupt, evil son of a bitch.
And that should be the reaction every black America gives
(04:08):
when anything comes out about doctor King released from this
federal government and from this FBI.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Great go ahead, I agree with you, of course, this
is the only reason that these documents are being declassified.
We know Robert Kennedy Junior believes there was conspiracy to
that's ate his uncle, and I agree with that in concept.
(04:39):
I don't think James already killed Martin Luther King, and
I don't think those shots came from the grassy over
the grassad the school Depository building.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Man, you know, there's a lot of scholarship on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It, and people will argue you take sides, but let's
be crystal clear about the King files.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It is exactly what you said. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I will say though, that I think John Hooper, John
Hoover's name should be on the building because the FBI
is a criminal enterprise. I don't think that for the
same reasons that the MAGA people think.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I think that it's a.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Criminal enterprise because as a person of African descent, it
has never done anything other than attack and persecute and
prosecute us. So I'm glad to see Leonard Peltier at
home after decades. But aside, of course can't come back.
And so you know, but that haven't been said. What
(05:30):
you have just said. We really, I mean, folks, listen
to everything tonight, but listen very carefully to this.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We need to brace for this.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Because you know, I think about some of the most
brilliant thinkers.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The Elogians.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We have everybody from Jeremiah right to Bashtime McKenzie, and
you know, that world is a world that is populated
by human beings, and we often hold our people the
standards that.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Other people don't.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I'm not saying we shouldn't, but I'm saying that
we don't allow our people to be human. And doctor
King didn't make it forty years old. And I'm glad
you evoked David Garrol. David Garrow is a first class researcher.
He's done so much important work. Anybody get his book
Rising Sun on Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You won't look at Obama the same.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It always cracks me up when people say y'are are
critical of Obama and people opening their mouths and have
never read one word of one sentence, one paragraph of
one page anything about Barack Obama. You read David Garrol,
you look at the whole world differently. But and even
Jonathan Agg's recent book on King came out a couple
of summers ago, but it doesn't displace what Martin Luther
(06:48):
King did. Unlike the young girl lover Matt Gates, unlike
the convicted sexual predator Donald, unlike Damn Near, the whole
Republican party, doctor King gave his life. But everybody, regardless
of color. And so I'll just end with this, and
(07:09):
I just want to underscore what you said, Roland and really,
really really support what you said, every word of it,
and please people when these tapes are revealed, and they're
only revealed because they want to take who they think
is the champion, the central figure representing the moral standard
(07:30):
of African people, which is the only reason there is
a funky criminal enterprise called United States of Americans. Be
very clear about that. And I don't think that it's
going to take a century to claw back, because I
don't think you guys say it's going to be here
in the century, not in the current form, not in
this current form.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I think it's inevitable. That's why they're pulling out the
steps now.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Steve Bannon is very clear about this, and I joined
him shoulder to shoulder and.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Say, you're absolutely right, mister Bannon.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Y'all don't have another play with but this, this is the
only play you have, and it's going to fail.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's going to fail anytime.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The Damn ADL is supporting Elon Musk, who is openly
supporting the AfD in Germany, a damn neo Nazi party.
It's very clear that everybody going for themselves, so guess
what we are too.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But when they come for Doctor King and the way
they're going to come for Doctor King.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Any one of you nigroes that runs out and talking
about taking down a statue or rejecting Martin Luther King,
I want you to keep that same energy for every
one of.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
These sexual, sexually.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Frustrated, lated knight punk deviants who are running this government
and running industry, because if you think you can measure
Martin Luther King by standard and not measure them by
the standard, then you are betraying not only are people,
you're betraying your own humanity.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
What the work that we do Joan not Brena Funk
fan Club. You heard we just talked about there, Folks,
I can't reiterate this enough. Listen to me, clearly, I
cannot reiterate this enough. When you've got technology companies running scared,
when you've got legacy media not doing their job, when
you got black on media that has disintegrated. Now is
(09:03):
more than ever for us to have independent media that
cares about the truth, that is willing to say what
needs to be said. So when you support Roland Martin
Unfiltered this show, when you support the Blackstar Network, you're
not just supporting me, You're supporting the other shows. Our
goal is to add two more shows this year. We
(09:25):
want additional shows. We want more weekly and daily shows
because we want to be able to speak truth to power.
We want to be able to save what is necessary
where other people are scared, and when you are scared,
when you're looking over your shoulder, Oh my god, that
advertising contract is not going to come in. Well, guess
what a lot of these major agencies, they're not talking.
(09:47):
They're not even supporting us anyway. You know, in six
years of doing this show, Group m hasn't done a
damn thing with us, Poplicis hasn't done anything with us.
You've got Horizon, You've got all of these folks. They
haven't done Jack. And so we are calling it like
we see it, and we're speaking truth. And unlike some
(10:07):
of these other so called progressives and people who believe
in truth, I'm not running around trying to kiss Maga
ass and kiss Trump's ass. I won't be going to
mar Largo, not for a damn thing. And so this
is about us being able to speak truth. So when
you support this show on this network with your resources,
(10:28):
it is exactly what is happening. Because we are trying
to build something that is bigger and broader, and actually
it has the courage to say what needs to be said,
even when it makes other folks uncomfortable. You want to
contribute giving cash app use the stripe QR code. This
is it right here, and if you are listening, simply
(10:49):
go to Blackstar Network dot com to check it out. Also,
because you want to see your checking money, order some
of y'all old school, we understand that see your checking
money order to Peelbox five seven one ninety six, Washington,
DC two zero zero three seven Dad zero one nine six, PayPal,
our Martin unfiltered, ven mos r M unfiltered, Zell rolling
(11:09):
at Rowland, s Martin dot com, rolling at Roland, markednfilter
dot com.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And again, folks, we've got some four million social media followers.
If only twenty thousand of our fans contribute at least
fifty bucks each, which comes out to four dollars and
nineteen cents a month thirteen cents a day. That's a
million dollars, allows us to be able to continue to build,
to add these shows and do the work that's required.
So your support is needed, so please join our Bring
(11:35):
the Funk Vanclub today. If you have not already joined,
if you have given to us in the past, please
renew your commitment because it's important that we support black
on media, because black on media matters.
Host
Roland Martin
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