Posted on 07/19/2016 4:03:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36 years ago.
"There is no question," the committee said in a report to the university's provost, "but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly credited, or credited generally and at some distance in the text from a close paraphrase or verbatim quotation."
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The panel, though showing King plagiarized, basically said he was careless and would not recommend the revocation of his doctorate.
Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty I can steal this paper from whitey for free at last.
Spread this and Biden, Obama and Deval Patrick, Obama and Honesty Johnny Edwards. Plagiarists all
Don’t let the Dims get out in front of this.
Oh yeah, and The Liberal Lion’s sterling performance at Havad . ..a few years before Chappaquiddick
With three kids in college and the “automated” systems they use now to decide if papers are plagiarized I recognize the fact that it is very hard to say something about specific subjects that have occurred in the past without using the same phrases that others have at one time.
Plageracists...
Does this make Melania go away?
And yet kings children come after people who use kings words
The Hillary Defense employed before it was the Hillary Defense.
No, it doesn’t. It has an interesting side-effect of excusing Dr. King’s plagiarism, though.
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