4~- Sunday, September 25, 1994 — North Shore News

More hoaxes from the 20th century

ON THE OTHER HAND

THIS HAS been a century of
hoaxes, and right up there
with the best is the Martin
Luther King hoax in which
there are Jessons for Canada.

In the U.S. they have a “Dr.”
Martin Luther King Day and many
states have Martin Luther King holi-
days.

But he stole his academic honors.
And the major media and the univer-
sities tried to conceal the truth.

Whole sections of his doctorat
thesis were taken verbatim from the

* work of a man with the unfortunate
name of Jack Boozer, now deceased.

Among the honors King received:
was the Nobei Peace Prize. But even
his Nobel Prize lecture was “plagia-
rized extensively” from a Florida
minister.

_ . There was almost nothing for
which he was famous that hadn’t
been filched. His “I have a dream"
speech came from a 1952 address to
the Republican National Convention
by Archibald Carey, a black preach-
er.

His “Letter from Birmingham
City Jail,” described as a great
American essay, was also based on
the work of others, He was, in fact, a
life-long stealer of other men’s stuff.

The whole affair, complete with
denials and excuses, has been pub-
lished in a paperback entitled The
Martin Luther King Jr. Plagiarism
Story, edited and largely written by
Theodore Pappas of Chronicles mag-
azine.

King was a major force on the
American scene, of course, and the
book makes no attempt to disguise
that. But much of his life was a lie.

American liberals could not admit
the truth.

King got his phoney doctorate in
religious theory from Baston

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University sind covered iC up furious-
ly.

So did the New York Times, N
Times’ editor was even sworn to
secrecy. The Times, Washington
Post, Adanta Journal and others all
refused for years to run articles on
the subject. As Pappas puts it, the
story “was deliberately spiked and
suppressed.”

It was in the U.K. that King was
first exposed, not the U.S. In 1989
the Sunday Telegraph's “Mandrake”
column ran the story.

For anyone who wanted to catch
it the King cat was out of the bag.
But when the Te/egraph asked
American academics whether King
was a plagiarist it was given a stream
of doubletalk and denials.

The one who was organizing the
King papers stited, “It's really not
true.”

The interim president of Boston
U said. “The allegation is totally
false. Not a single instance of plagia-
rism of any sort has been identified.”

The verbal somersaults were
hilarious. Confronted with the evi-
dence, academic apologists talked
about “intertextualizing,” “‘synthesiz-
ing,” “incorporating,” “voice merg-

66 (Martin Luther)
King was a major force
on the American scene,
of course, and the book
makes no attempt to dis-
guise that. But much of

his life was a lie. 99

ing” and “a pattern of textual appro-
priation.”” Anything but plagiarism.

King had became a liberal icon,
you see. A black Jesus, even. To
admit he was aa con artist was not
on,

King’s doctorate should be with-
drawn. It hasn't been. Forced by
lesser publications to admit that
King’s gold did not glitter, the main-
stream media did finally run the
story. As kindly as possible.

The Telegraph's Frank Johnson
put his finger on the problem,
“American reporters’ powers of per-
ception tend to fail them in questions
of race, gender and gays,” he com-
mented. (And you can say the same
of Canada.)

Jacob Neusner, Distinguished
Professor of Religious Studies at

Florida University, goes further. fir
his foreword to the book he com-
pares the rot of political correctness
in American universities to what
happened in the U.S.S.R. and Nazi
Germany.

“itis what people would not say,

would not do, declined to publish,
refused to investigate, that shows us
the true character of thought control
today.

“With investigating committees
proliferating and free speech now
subject to violent challenges on our

campuses, who can tell me how our
universities differ from those of Nazi
Germany, except in the detail that
there the Right defended the norm
and here the Left does?”

We in Canada need not be smug.
Phillipe Rushton was nearly hounded
oulof Western University for pub-
lishing data on differences in intelli-
gence levels between the races.

Professor Martin Yaqzan
resigned from New Brunswick
University after writing a politically
incorrect article on date-rape.

Let’s make a deal!

On a recent trip to Mexico my husband Bob and t were
on a day cruise, | was approached by a crew mambar
wanting to buy my Tilley Hat. He offerad $50.USI .

In Toronto. a female academic
suffered a nervous breakdown after
being bullied for putting on a histori-
cal exhibition depicting British rule
in Africa.

At UBC and Victoria University
people have been viciously attacked
for giving “incorrect” lectures.

As Neusner puts it, The future is
upon us,”

The Martin Luther King Jr.
Plagiarism Story is available from
The Rockford Institute, Rockford,
Illinois, for US$10.

Tilley
Emhabtes

We'ra on ‘the move! :
1537 Broadway goes {6}
2401 Granville & 8th:

He said he had une before but it was stolen. 1 told him.
to ask me again on tha way back -- | wasn’! going to live’
without my Hat all day in tha hot sun + aiso wa wore
flying homa in a couple of days or | wouldn't even have.

considered it

‘And s0 when it came down to the actual bargaining, wa , ;

haggied a bit and finally agraed on 135 pesos --

| " sailing off the ceast of Mavico,

Yours truly,

Norma.-Mortiner . :
» Surrey, B.C.)

: enought to buy me & new Hat. My old Tilley Hat ins now.

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