Token black Harvard university president Claudine Gay, plagiarist - like MLK (and...Obama)

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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
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First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by
Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her
own paraphrase and language.


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https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733977126020481266

Seems this is a common issue among blacks placed in positions they
are not intellectually equipped for.

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Boston U. Panel Finds Plagiarism by Dr. King

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."

Despite its finding, the committee said that "no thought should be
given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree," an action
that the panel said would serve no purpose.

But the committee did recommend that a letter stating its finding be
placed with the official copy of Dr. King's dissertation in the
university's library.

The four-member committee was appointed by the university a year ago
to determine whether plagiarism charges against Dr. King that had
recently surfaced were in fact true. Today the university's provost,
Jon Westling, accepted the committee's recommendations and said its
members had "conducted the investigation with scholarly
thoroughness, scrupulous attention to detail and a determination not
to be influenced by non-scholarly consideration."

The dissertation at issue is "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God
in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman." Dr. King
wrote it in 1955 as part of his requirements for a doctor of
philosophy degree, which he subsequently received from the
university's Division of Religious and Theological Studies.

One member of the investigating committee, John Cartwright, the
university's Martin Luther King Professor of Social Ethics, said the
panel had refrained from speculating about the reasons why Dr. King
had not properly attributed material, which came from a variety of
other interpreters of the works of Tillich and Wieman.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/us/boston-u-panel-finds-
plagiarism-by-dr-king.html

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Obama's State of the Union Was Tantamount to Plagiarism

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what can be said of
plagiarism? President Obama’s second State of the Union address
contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of
others to make historians wince. I suppose this is what one does
when one not only has nothing new to say, but is required by custom
and Constitution to come forth with a report of some kind by a
certain time and day.


Early in his address, Obama said that he wanted the nation he leads
to be a "light to the world." The last president who set such a
mission for the nation he led, and in those exact words, was Woodrow
Wilson.

Obama’s concept of the “American family” may well have had its
origins in the first State of the State address New York Governor
Mario Cuomo delivered in 1983. Cuomo proclaimed the state of New
York as a “family.” He also talked about multiple partnerships, both
public and private.

In a 1991 Washington, D.C. address sponsored by conservative groups,
including the Heritage Foundation, Margaret Thatcher coined a phrase
Obama made his own in his second State of the Union address.
Thatcher told her American audience that "no other nation has been
built upon an idea." In a slightly revised form, Obama, in his
second State of the Union address, all but repeated it, using
additional words.


There was a certain Back to the Future feel to the masterful
tributes Obama paid those Ronald Reagan might have described as
“ordinary heroes.” After all, it was Reagan who began the practice
of inviting citizens who had done extraordinary things to sit beside
the first lady in the House gallery as the president recited their
achievements. It was also Reagan who reminded his listeners that the
greatness of America emerged not from the hand of government, but
through the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people. [Check
out a roundup of political cartoons on Obama.]

Obama received his most sustained applause when he said, "I know
there isn’t a person here who would trade places with any other
nation on Earth." Leaving aside the faulty grammar (people change
places with people, not with nations), the poaching from John F.
Kennedy's immortal inaugural address was obvious enough for the most
historical of Obama's listeners to notice. ("I do not believe that
any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
generation.") That Obama could utter almost identical words days
after paying tribute to Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of the
delivery of that famous speech and not making reference to it
suggests a self-absorption rare even among presidents. [See photos
of the Obamas behind the scenes.]

Most pointedly, the low point of Obama’s speech came when he brought
back government re-organization from the ash heap of failed efforts
of previous presidents who sought to save money without inflicting
pain on a public that had grown accustomed to government largesse.
This one, like all that talk about all those green energy jobs that
lay before us, had fallen out of the presidential repertoire with
retirement of Jimmy Carter. Obama might have had the decency to have
Carter on hand to witness the moment. He will have another chance
should he, when he delivers his budget, bring back that other Carter
flop from yesteryear, “zero based budgeting.” [See a slide show of
10 worst presidents.]

Even Obama’s feigned attempt at humor had an antecedent in the
remarks of a predecessor who spun better yarns than this president.
Obama informed his listeners that salmon comes under the
jurisdiction of one department when swimming in fresh water and
under another when swimming in salt water. He rhetorically inquired
what happened to the fish when “smoked.”

Somewhere in the White House library resides a published letter
Franklin Roosevelt wrote to an adviser in which he complained that
some bears were the property of the Interior Department, while
others belonged the National Parks System. FDR, tongue in cheek,
warned of a pending custody battle over cubs that emerged from
illicit unions of bears crossing departmental jurisdictions. [Read A
Brief History of the State of the Union Address.]

It would appear that the only president of note whose imprint was
absent in Obama’s long awaited and much-anticipated speech was
Obama. This was supposed to have been the moment when the nation
found out whether he was at the core a Rooseveltian liberal of a
Clintonian centrist. What it got was a cut and pasted version of
great and not-so-great State of the Union and other addresses of the
past.

Sometime last year, many suggested that Obama would have an easier
time getting his message across if he was less dependent on his
teleprompter. This may be the year his writers are advised to throw
away their books of political quotations. Then we may finally find
out what the president truly believes and what he hopes to achieve
in the office he so ardently sought.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/alvin-
felzenberg/2011/01/26/obamas-state-of-the-union-was-tantamount-to-
plagiarism