And Now I Learn . . .

Contributed by: filbert Sunday, January 20 2008 @ 03:35 PM CST

That MLK might very well have plagiarized the "I Have A Dream" speech from one given at the 1952 Republican National Convention by a black Republican-Archibald Carey[*1] :
The plagiarism did not begin or end with the doctoral thesis, so much so that the Collected Papers of Luther King Jr. apparently devotes at least as much time to "uncited sources" as it does to his own work, if that is the correct description. Even the much celebrated "I have a dream" speech of 1963 was plagiarized. By a peculiar turn of events, the source King raided for this was a speech given to the Republican National convention of 1952, by a black preacher named Archibald Carey.
Via Gateway Pundit[*2] .

Does it matter, really?  Not to King, I'm sure.  He still got murdered for what he was saying and what he was doing.  But those of you who think that the "issue" of "civil rights" belongs to one particular political party really need to look at the history.  One party was founded to combat slavery.  The other one was dragged kicking and screaming into the civil rights battle, and now cynically uses it to maintain and extend its power.

It doesn't matter what the original source of the words were--it matters that they are true and noble and words to live by:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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[*1] http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a627965022a.htm
[*2] http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/01/bummer-martin-luther-king-jr-stole-i.html