J. Edgar Hoover — The Plot Thickens

In a recent post, I commented on a movie I haven't seen, J. Edgar, with respect to its treating the homosexual smear as factually correct, therefore warping the historical record in the minds of heaps of moviegoers who never heard of Hoover before.  Sort of like how practically everybody younger than me seems to think that Nixon started the Vietnam War, instead of ending it.

Well, here's a sort of smear that wasn't part of the movie, no doubt because it has an ambiguous political message.  The rumor that J. Edgar Hoover was a mulatto.  As the photograph shows, not only was he a mulatto, but he was also a Black Muslim (just kidding).  But, seriously, just Google:

Hoover  Mulatto

And you'll get a lot of sites discussing it.  Personally, I think it's a canard, and irrelevant if true.  But it's great fun to consider that rumor in tandem with the homosexual one.  Which is what the H. L. Mencken/John Peter Zenger of our time, Steve Sailer has done in his review of the movie.  Steve has a knack for seeing connections that most of us miss, and also seeing the humor in some of them.  He reminds us of the Hoover/McCarty connection, which has sort of been forgotten, because it's hard to leave the heroic messiah Bobby Kennedy out of the story, and shows there was a real homosexual vibe in that bunch.  Steve also makes the case for an under-the-radar political struggle between organized Blacks and homosexuals that most of us are failing to notice.  Steve introduces the review on his own site HERE and you can read the whole thing HERE.