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   Once out of school King did not change. As with his habit of   
   sexual licentiousness, he   
   continued to plagiarize. He had to if he were to get where he   
   wanted. King's admirers   
   point to his eloquence as a significant aspect of his impact and   
   success. Yet, in his   
   academic work, “King's plagiarisms are easy to detect because   
   their style rises above the   
   level of his pedestrian student prose. In general, if the   
   sentences are eloquent, witty,   
   insightful, or pithy, or contain allusions, analogies,   
   metaphors, or similes, it is safe to   
   assume that the section has been purloined.” (p. 90)   
      
   King plagiarized in his books, Strength to Love Stride Toward   
   Freedom. Further:   
      
   1 This points to very significant problem for any group opposing   
   the program of the dominant culture. It   
   is the liberal establishment that owns the press and the   
   universities with all their reporters and   
   academics. They will research and publish what helps their   
   cause, wheather it is studies tending to   
   support the left or the dirty linen of the other side. Non-   
   liberals do not enjoy the advantages of this   
   intellectual “infrastructure” and the same few people must   
   combine activism and research and   
   publishing. Even then, they can get their ideas and discoveries   
   to the public only through marginal,   
   limited circulation publications. Compare the highly publicized   
   shootings of abortionists with the   
   scarcely reported violence of pro-abortion factions.   
      
   King's Nobel Prize Lecture, for example, is plagiarized   
   extensively from   
   works by Florida minister J. Wallace Hamilton; the section on   
   Gandhi and   
   nonviolence in his "Pilgrimage" speech are stolen virtually   
   verbatim from   
   Harris Wofford's speech on the same topic; the frequently   
   replayed climax to   
   the “I Have a Dream” speech—the “from every mountianside, let   
   freedom   
   ring” portion—is taken directly from a 1952 address to the   
   Republican   
   National Convention by a black preacher named Archibald Carey;   
   the 1968   
   sermon in which King prophesied his martyrdom was based on works   
   by J.   
   Wallace Hamilton and Methodist minister Harold Bosley; even the   
   “Letter   
   From Birmingham City Jail”, that “great American essay” so often   
   reproduced in textbooks on composition, is based on work by   
   Harry Fosdick,   
   H.H. Crane, and Harris Wofford.... (p. 94)2   
      
   The book's second lesson is the abject capitulation of academic   
   standards before the   
   demands of political correctness. This arises in two contexts:   
   the dishonesty of Boston   
   University administrators in the face of the plagiarism   
   revelations, and the cover-up by   
   the editors of the King papers at Emory University. Their first   
   position was indignant   
   denial, then came grudging limited admissions mixed with half-   
   truths designed to   
   mislead reporters, and finally a politically correct spin on the   
   story according to which   
   plagiarism (though they prefer other terms) is not so bad after   
   all when done by blacks.   
   Boston University appointed a committee:   
      
   As the committee concluded in its September 1991 report, because   
   King   
   plagiarized only 45 percent of the first half of his   
   dissertation and only 21   
   percent of the second, the thesis remains a legitimate and   
   “intelligent   
   contribution to scholarship” about which “no thought should be   
   given to the   
   revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree.” (p. 103)   
      
   The need to defend King's standing (and, it turns out, other   
   prominent black writers) led   
   to new critical theories of this special form of “discourse”. As   
   was earlier done with   
   pimping, plagiarism was elevated to a beautiful expression of   
   the flowering of black   
   culture.   
      
   It certainly promoted King's career. Wherever he was scheduled   
   to appear to mouth   
   liberal pronouncements before a backdrop of black marchers, the   
   tv cameras showed up,   
   making him the publicly visible leader of the negroes. It was   
   the sort of movement in   
   which being seen on TV as a leader amounted to being the leader   
      
   In time, however, new goals emerged for the radical black   
   movement, and new leaders,   
   less beholden to the older liberalism, appeared to promote these   
   goals. The movement   
   against us participation in Vietnam (it was pro-war, they simply   
   wanted the Communist   
   2 Many black “churchmen” demand that the “Letter from Birmingham   
   City Jail” be added to the Bible.   
   The plagiarism revelations have not led to a retraction.   
      
   side to win) also began to take away direction and momentum from   
   MLK's “leadership”.   
   King needed to reposition himself in front of his people. He   
   began to mouth the line of   
   the new left. US involvement in the Vietnam war was wrong, he   
   said, because it was a   
   war in which white people killed yellow people. Even worse,   
   white people made use of   
   blacks to kill yellow people. With his new racist arguments and   
   obvious sympathy for the   
   Communists King began to threaten the reputation and moral   
   credit he has amassed as the   
   spokesman for equality, integration and other notions liberals   
   had urged on Americans as   
   both good and harmless.   
      
   But just when King seemed about to destroy his immense value to   
   the liberals as a tool   
   acceptable to the white middle class, he was assassinated. As a   
   martyr he has been worth   
   a least twice as much to the liberals as he was alive. In death   
   King continues “free from   
   those somewhat annoying qualities which some men of his race   
   acquire”.   
      
   http://contra-mundum.org/cm/reviews/tw_plagiarism.pdf   
      
   Liberal Democrats had MLK killed to preserve their investment.   
                  
      
      
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