Another example of a right wing racist trying to discredit a black man who deserves honor.
I see you have no counter to the FBI tapes, just a lot of anger and partisan too, which hurts YOUR case about the man. It has been long known that Hoover was a full blown racist who tried to take down King, but he never followed through on all the surveillance he had on him.
King was a flawed man who did amazing things to help expose the utter rot of illegal Segregation that had relegated black people to a second rate existence, a demeaning situation to live under.
His street marches exposed the ugliness of institutional racism, garnered a number of celebrity supporters who would march with him. He gave a great 1963 speech that THEN excited the people, but today disregarded by many because of their hate.
His leadership on the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a major factor in their success.
His leadership in the Chicago marches exposed Mayor Daley as a virulent racist who made promises he never followed through.
Follow the truth no matter how unpleasant they are, what King did with women was bad, what he did for Civil rights is what will be remembered in history books.
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His great 1963 speech was plagiarized.
He was a serial plagiarizer...that is how he got his phd....and the school even knew it but excused him because?????
Boston U. Panel Finds Plagiarism by Dr. King
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'committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36 years ago.
"There is no question," the committee said in a report to the university's provost, "but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly credited, or credited generally and at some distance in the text from a close paraphrase or verbatim quotation."
Despite its finding, the committee said that "no thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree," an action that the panel said would serve no purpose.
But the committee did recommend that a letter stating its finding be placed with the official copy of Dr. King's dissertation in the university's library.
The four-member committee was appointed by the university a year ago to determine whether plagiarism charges against Dr. King that had recently surfaced were in fact true. Today the university's provost, Jon Westling, accepted the committee's recommendations and said its members had "conducted the investigation with scholarly thoroughness, scrupulous attention to detail and a determination not to be influenced by non-scholarly consideration."
The dissertation at issue is "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman." Dr. King wrote it in 1955 as part of his requirements for a doctor of philosophy degree, which he subsequently received from the university's Division of Religious and Theological Studies.
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One member of the investigating committee, John Cartwright, the university's Martin Luther King Professor of Social Ethics, said the panel had refrained from speculating about the reasons why Dr. King had not properly attributed material, which came from a variety of other interpreters of the works of Tillich and Wieman'
Boston U. Panel Finds Plagiarism by Dr. King
In a nutshell the guy was a phoney through and through....yet the media did its best to cover it all up and promoted him like he was a saint....no supprise there....the propaganda machines constantly work very diligently to deceive the American People.
I saw that and because of Tipsycatlover, I learned something new. It is a shame he did that and a lot of it too.
But I caution everyone here since there are many hero's in history who also did terrible things, while they did something great too. Lets not get carried away in the MLK bashing as it can become hypocritical.
Consider that JFK slept around on his wife, yet made the commies back down from Cuba.
Consider that Lyndon Johnson was a walking human scumbag, who badly managed the Vietnam war, yet helped get the Civil rights of 1965 passed.
Consider that FDR tried to pack to the SCOTUS, Incarcerated innocent Japanese, most of them citizens into camps, he help throw General Short and Admiral Kimmel under the bus. Yet his war time leadership was often very good, helped the allies in a partnership that succeeded despite that one of them is an ideological enemy.
Consider that Jimmy Carter was a failed leader on Energy and Terrorist issues, his absurd rescue policy was the reason why the hostage rescue mission was doomed to failure. yet he was the one who got the Camp David accords signed by two nations historically big enemies.
There are examples from history too.
