[gcruse]

The Lewis and Clark phenom today is part
of the Great Myth of Diversity's Benefits.  As
public education consigns Columbus, Washington,
and even Ronald Reagan to it-would-have-been-
better-not-to-have-them-in-our-history-at-all,
we instead celebrate the marginal for what they
thought, not what they accomplished.

What did Martin Luther King really do, after all?
That stuff Maya Angelou writes -- would anyone
read it if they didn't have to?  Does anyone
believe Cornel West is of value to education?

[PLK]

What did Martin Luther King really do, after all?

One of his greatest accomplishments was keeping his doctorate degree & courtesy "Dr." title even after it was proven he plagiarized, wholesale and in LARGE amounts, his PhD dissertation. Any other idiot (namely white male) who was caught doing this would have the degree withdrawn and their name and reputation forever ruined. In this, Dr. King accomplished something no one else has probably ever done.