Posted on 01/18/2010 12:23:46 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
[Archibald Carey, a black preacher from Chicago, was a friend of Republican President Dwight Eisenhower.
Eisenhower had Mr. Carey speak at the 1952 Republican Convention in Chicago. The text below is from the speech Mr. Carey gave at that convention. Next to it the link is text from MLK Jr.'s speech.]
Oh wow!!!!
MLK pinched a speech......
Who’da thunk it?
I did think the speech MLK gave that day in DC was one of the best I have ever heard.
Ouch!
Clearly the speech inspired MLK’s speech. MLK’s speech embellishes and improves on it. Another poster today indicates that MLK plagerized his thesis. Why this comes out today is beyond me...
The fact he was a Republican (and the person he STOLE the text from was a Republican supporter) certainly shows us which party is, historically, on the CORRECT side of civil rights.
Not the civil rights as it has come to be known by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson--the "gimme gimme gimme" mentality. But the civil rights as envisioned by, but left undone, by our Founding Fathers, and articulated by King: where one's CHARACTER and not one's SKIN COLOR is the arbiter of his value to society.
So, now we know:
Those “racist Republicans” invited an “African American” to give a speech, at their national convention, which represented the core of Martin Luther King’s famous speech, only eleven years before he gave it.
Someone needs to find what’s the best the Dims had to offer at their convention that year.
If I remember right (if ???), those were the years (early fifties), when Republicans offered the first federal civil rights legislation, which was always voted down by the Democrats. And, that was the same generation of Republicans who later saved Johnson’s civil rights legislation from his own party in the Senate.
But, I digress, ‘cause I know we live in an era where image reigns supreme over substance.
That was my post...I put it up precisely because the holiday is today...to put some perspective on the history.
I don’t think it cheapens his speech, but there is no excuse for not referencing your sources in a doctoral thesis.
Back when I was a lowly undergraduate (not a "doctor") if I had copied whole paragraphs without any hint of attribution, I don't think my professor would accept an excuse that I had "embelished and improved" on the original, do you?
Very interesting. As ministers, both Rev. Cary and Dr. King could both have been inspired by the text of “My Country” and wrote similar lessons. Dr. King’s soaring finish will always be inspirational!
King didn’t just fail to “reference” his sources for the doctoral thesis, he copied who portions word for word.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.