Each of us knows that we are not perfect. Allowing this to stop us from doing good and living to our full potential, however, is one of the great tragedies of life.
Reflecting on his observations of human beings, Holocaust survivor and psychologist Viktor Frankl stated, “Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths. Is it surprising that in those depths we … found only human qualities which in their very nature were a mixture of good and evil?”
Martin Luther King Jr. was under constant surveillance by J. Edgar Hoover and his agency the Federal Bureau of Investigation . His phone lines were tapped and his hotel rooms were bugged. One wonders if any of us would come up without blemish given this type of constant monitoring. This worked in King’s favour, however, because Hoover’s obsession made the FBI reports of King’s extramarital affairs seem less believable.
I also began to question the entire phenomenon of discrediting, or “canceling”, prominent figures. When we look at cancel culture objectively, it tells us a great deal about the person or the group doing the canceling. King’s infidelity certainly had a negative impact on his wife, his children, the other women in his life, and on his own conscience, but why was Hoover so obsessed with this aspect of King’s life? What does this tell us about J.
Each of us knows that we are not perfect. Allowing this to stop us from doing good and living to our full potential, however, is one of the great tragedies of life. We all make mistakes, but that does not make us bad. It only becomes a problem when we refuse to improve.
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