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It’s always fascinated me that growing up in the American public
school system, we are taught about Martin Luther King Jr. and
the Holocaust and other topics of note regarding the history of
the early and mid 20th century. Yet there is so much that is NOT
taught regarding the topics of Martin Luther King Jr. and the
genocides in general. Is this deliberate? Or simply incompetence
on the part of the public school system?

Martin Luther King Jr’s Intellectual Dishonesty and Fraud

For example, it is a fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was a
serial plagiarist, plagiarizing just about everything he wrote.
His rampant intellectual dishonesty is never taught in public
school systems. This is not a rumor or a speculation, it is
fact. For example, Martin Luther King Jr’s dissertation at
Boston University that earned him his PHD was over 50%
plagiarized. (this was confirmed by an official investigation by
Boston University, which refused to remove Dr. King’s PHD
despite him cheating like crazy to obtain it) It was entitled “A
Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul
Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman,” and was heavily plagiarized
from the PhD dissertation of a (unfortunately named) Dr. Jack
Boozer , “The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich’s Concept of God.”

Boston University’s decision to NOT revoke the doctorate of
someone who plagiarized over 50% of his dissertation is a slap
in the face to all those who actually worked hard to earn their
doctorate. What does that say to the nation’s black youths for
example? How can Martin Luther King Jr. be placed on a pedestal
of achievement when his entire career was marked by rampant,
blatant, and unapologetic intellectual dishonesty? From his
earliest works onward Dr. King hardly spoke a word of his own
originality, but borrowed and took credit for the legitimate
works of other authors.

Even his “I Have a Dream Speech” was plagiarized from a speech
given in 1952 to the Republican National convention by a black
preacher named Archibald Carey. Archibald’s intellectual
originality and genius was stolen by Martin Luther King Jr., who
then took all the credit. And to this day school children are
still taught that this was a honest, intelligent man, when he
was in fact a fraud. Sure he stood up for civil rights, but he
was a intellectual fraud. Unable to achieve anything by his own
merit, he unabashedly stole the works of other people, did so
his entire life, and despite the irrefutable proof of this we
still venerate him and give him a national holiday.

This reminds me of the recent case of Kaavya Viswanathan, a
teenage marvel who was accepted early into Harvard for her novel
“How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life”. She was
exposed as a fraud when it was revealed she heavily plagiarized
her book. As a result Dreamwork pictures canned plans to make a
movie out of her book, and her publisher kicked her out. She was
originally signed to a book deal for $500,000. Yeah her writing
was THAT good! it was THAT good because she stole it from
talented people. She was disgraced. Why isn’t Martin Luther King
Jr. being disgraced? Why does he get to keep his doctorate?

Intellectual frauds should always be exposed, ESPECIALLY if they
are in a high position. It’s infuriating, and disgusting to me
that Martin Luther King’s doctorate is not revoked by Boston
University. This type of fraud should NEVER be tolerated. It
cheapens every person who worked hard to get their degree.

(By the way, Viswanathan has refused to admit her rampant
plagiarism and maintains that it was unintentional. A casual
research of the passages in her novel compared to where it was
stolen pretty much refute this.)

The Holodomor: The holocaust that is never taught in school

Holodomor

The Holodomor was a genocide carried out by the Soviet Union
against ethnic Ukrainians from 1932-1933. During that period, an
estimated 10 Million Ukrainians were slaughtered. TEN MILLION.
Why aren’t we taught about this in school? It was of course,
covered up by the Soviet Union who never admitted to the crime
and denied it ever occurred. After the fall of the Soviet Union
in 1990 it became clear it actually did occur, and the full
extent of it was made known to the world. There is no excuse to
ignore it any longer.

Ukrainians were dying at the rate of about 25,000 a day.
Basically, the Soviet Union stopped giving food to the region of
the Ukraine, starving them all to death while forcing them to
work. The same as the German concentration camps. Yet all we
hear and are taught about is the Jewish Holocaust. We can not
ignore the premeditated slaughter of 10 million people.

In summation: The Public school system is hopelessly broken.
Students are indoctrinated in official versions of history,
instead of taught the truth. What you learn in school is
worthless. In order to be informed, we must research
independently, we must doubt everything that we are told and
verify it ourselves. For example, doesn’t it bother anyone that
just about all the news in newspapers is from the Associated
Press or Reuters?

Whatever happened to news organizations actually sending their
OWN reporters to the field, and publishing stories in their
paper based on this? Currently, most papers are simply
photocopies of each other, each reporting whatever the AP tells
them to report on. There are precious few 100% independent
newspapers left. Christian Science Monitor is one of my
favorites.

Anyway, that’s the end of my rant.

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