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Much has been written in recent days about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece, Dr. Alveda King, because of her hooking up with Glenn Beck and being one of the speakers scheduled to appear at Beck's 8/28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Most of the coverage of Alveda King has focused on her activities and remarks as an anti-abortion activist, such as her claim that abortion makes African-American children an endangered species, but there's another aspect of King's activism that has been overlooked -- her complicity in the Christian nationalist effort to rewrite American history.
No, Alveda King, Our Founders Did Not Put "God" On Our Money ----- (Not A Real Doctor)
Seeded on Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:54 PM EDT
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This is thanks to pghperson on HuffingtonPost.
"Some facts regarding Alveda King: Dr. King's doctorate is honorary. She did not earn it. She holds an MBA is business administration. When asked why she earned the doctorate, Ms. King said that she didn't know, "I guess it was for my support of marriage, and family, and education, and life." In 1994, she released a letter condemning Coretta Scott King for her support of abortion and gay rights. Ms. King contends that she holds Dr. King's DNA while Coretta Scott King does not, and is dismissive of her. She is estanged from Martin Luther King's branch of the family."
She is a pompous nincompoop. I hate living in Warhol's 15 mintues of fame world. Anything for a buck.
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#1 - Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:01 PM EDTDamn......I didn't know Kings neice was a friggin teabagger. I guess she is their token. The one thaqt can make an argument as inclusiveness. Shame. Guess she didn't get King's brains or heart.
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Or maybe she is just that much of an attention whore that she will do or say just about anything to gather a big enough crowd. After all, she has appeared on Beck’s show in the past and claimed that the Tea Party Movement and the Civil Rights Movement were very similar. Yes. Similar.
Now that she's had her minute of fame she's no longer useful and they'll probably hide her behind the bus.
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#2 - Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:20 AM EDTEvery large family has some embarrassing members. I speak from experience.
Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to have a very strong grasp on what her uncle was doing, and what it actually meant. She also doesn't seem to understand how she is being used. But she might, someday.
If only the next generation could learn from the previous one...
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#3 - Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:44 AM EDTUnfortunately, she doesn't seem to have a very strong grasp on what her uncle was doing, and what it actually meant.
Most don't have a grasp of what King was doing, either.
The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled "Life is What You Make It," according to the testimony of King's best friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams.
The first book that King wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom, - -was plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow.
And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King's widow Coretta), stated of King's writings at both Boston University and Crozer Theological Seminary: "Judged retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism.... Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his major field of graduate study, systematic theology."
King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God," written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of "The Finding of God."
Another of King's theses, "Contemporary Continental Theology," written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.
King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman," for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."
According to "The Martin Luther King Papers", in King's dissertation "only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on Tillich contain five or more words that were King's own...."!
In "The Journal of American History", June 1991, page 87, David J. Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says that King's wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. ("King's Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation," The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87)
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