who was he?
he began to plagiarize at the age of 15. he was named michael king and died under that name. so in essence he never legally changed his name. he plagiarised his doctoral thesis and many of his speeches. he plagiarised his most famous speech, "i have a dream." so why do we celebrate his day? why is he the only person to get their own holiday. not even george washington has his own day.
one guy in our class said that we can't relate to martin luther king jr. day or the civil rights movement because he was white. is that the issue here? or is it because our generation is removed from that. my mother remembers segregation in elementary school. she can relate to the issue more i guess.
so what should our views be on the day?
Posted by hill at October 21, 2003 11:08 PMwhoa there, hill. those are heavy accusations. got proof?
did he plagiarize this in his prison cell?
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
yes there is proof, but i will have to find it. we talked about it in class yesterday and i was very interested in it. our teacher was talking about it and i wnent home and talked to my mom about it and she backed up what my teacher said..
Posted by: hill at October 22, 2003 01:50 PMI'll vouch for the plagiarizing stuff.....read a horribly long article on it a year or so ago.
Quite amazing it's gotten so little press (or maybe not surprising :-/ ).
I can try to dig up the link if anyone cares.
Posted by: andrew at November 3, 2003 12:11 AMplease do. i am still quite fascinated by it.
Posted by: hill at November 3, 2003 01:48 PMI thought about this and looked up some websites. There's spin everywhere depending on the point of view of the author. I think objectivity is a discussion for later posts. Nevertheless, at
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030502.html
[warning: this site has course language and brief but illicit stories about Martin Luther King Jr. Please be careful and discerning.]
I found this quote "Was he a great American? No argument here. Was he a fraud and a hypocrite? He was that, too." I think that sums up many people in the political/religious limelight. Of course, that is only to our shame.
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