{"id":318246,"date":"2025-02-16T17:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=318246"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:50:33","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-or-the-black-sheep-of-the-clan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/rolled-up-sleeves\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-or-the-black-sheep-of-the-clan\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or the black sheep of the clan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born from the union of Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) and Ethel Skakel Kennedy (1928-2024), from early on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954) did nothing but exhibit and reinforce the credentials of a \u201cship without a rudder\u201d \u2014 \u201chooligan,\u201d as they would say in Spain \u2014, earned in good faith. This is, without a doubt, one of the bases of his status as the black sheep of the clan to which he belongs by right.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the beginning he began to show society his card of problem child. After his father was killed on June 6, 1968, Kennedy fell into the <\/span>drug hole<\/b><\/a> as a teenager, which caused him several legal problems, one of them in Massachusetts for possession of marijuana. He was considered the leader of a gang of \u201crich, spoiled kids\u201d dedicated to vandalism, theft and drug use. He was expelled from a couple of educational centers.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Harvard University, where he would obtain a Bachelor of Arts in American History and Literature (1976), he continued to use heroin and marijuana with his brother David and other fellows. Problems in that area would continue to mark him, even after graduation. In September 1983 he was accused of possession of heroin in Rapid City, South Dakota.<\/span><\/p>\n

A year later he pleaded guilty to possession of that substance, was sentenced to two years of probation and community service. He then entered a rehabilitation center and worked as a volunteer for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He later stated that the incident had led to the end of his relationship with drugs, which he had begun at the age of 15.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident opened a new chapter in his life story. In the mid-1980s, he joined two organizations focused on environmental protection \u2014 Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) \u2014 and became part of the culture of the left. He also became an adjunct professor of environmental law at the Pace University Faculty of Law (1986). In 1987, he founded the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and in 1999, the environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n

He did all of this without abandoning his status as a \u201ccompulsive womanizer,\u201d a culture that comes from his father and uncle murdered in Dallas. In 1982, he married Emily Ruth Black. In 1994, he divorced her to marry the architect and designer <\/span>Mary Kathleen Richardson<\/b><\/a>, a close friend of one of his sisters. Rumor has it that during his marriage to Richardson, who committed suicide in 2010, Kennedy sent friends nude photos of women he had had sex with. He kept a journal recording his sexual encounters with more than 30 of them. One day his wife found it and told her sisters that the document should be released to the press if anything happened to her. <\/span>One analyst<\/b><\/a> said that:<\/span><\/p>\n

Like a kid in high school, Kennedy used the numbers to represent \u201chow far\u201d they had gone toward sexual intercourse: the entry logged three women in a day. A source who has seen the diaries said: \u201cWhat was interesting was that he portrays himself as a victim in all the encounters with women. He was ogling after women in the environmental movement.\u201d He blamed the women, calling the sex acts \u201cmuggings.\u201d In one entry, he recorded that he \u201cnarrowly escaped being mugged\u201d by a team of two women. \u201cIt was tempting, but I prayed and God gave me the strength to say no,\u201d<\/span><\/i> he wrote.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But those credentials are far from unique. Since 2005, he has been promoting conspiracy theories about public health, including the existence of a link between vaccines and autism.<\/span><\/p>\n