The Holodomor and Martin Luther King Jr plagiarism: why didn't we learn this in school?

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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