Ms. Hornaday’s thesis is that normal people (specifically white male Christians) are
bad. Her case in point: the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King:
In fact, the White, male, Christian version of normal was precisely what J. Edgar Hoover was going for when he recruited for the FBI, the investigative agency he ran with an iron fist for nearly 50 years.…
Hornaday [Tweet her] says of the 1965–1974 FBI TV Series
I certainly don’t remember any episode where they wiretapped and bugged Martin Luther King Jr. to gather salacious material that would disrupt his movement, destroy his reputation and neutralize his power.