Answers to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Test

1. What is Martin Luther King Jr.’s, real name?

Michael King, Jr. His father, Michael King, Sr. appropriated the name of Protestant reformer Martin Luther for himself and his son in 1935. The name change was never made legal.

2. What did President Lyndon B. Johnson call Martin Luther King, Jr. after receiving J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI report?

“A hypocrite preacher.” See if you agree after reading the answers to the rest of this test.

3. How much of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation for Boston University was plagiarized?

At least 45% of the first half and 21% of the second half was plagiarized. The faculty investigation reported on October 11, 1991, that 49% of the sentences in the first part on Tillich had five or more words that could be attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. That means 51% of the sentences had four or fewer words. Fifty sentences were completely plagiarized from the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer.

4. Was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dissertation the only incident of his plagiarism?

No, there are numerous other examples. His first sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church was lifted from a homily entitled “Life Is What You Make It” by Harry Emerson Fosdick. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s first book Stride Toward Freedom, largely ghost-written by his mentor Stanley Levinson, had many passages lifted from several sources. He took verbatim passages from “The Finding of God” by Edgar S. Brightman for a paper submitted at Crozer Theological Seminary titled “The Place of Reason & Experience in Finding God.” Martin Luther King, Jr. lifted another paper handed in at Boston University, “Contemporary Continental Theology,” from a book by Walter Marshall Horton. The final section of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” was from a speech given by Archibald Carey at the 1956 Republican National Convention.

5. Who attempted to suppress knowledge of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s plagiarism?

Lynn Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney. Ms. Cheney is an author of children’s books and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

6. After delivering his famous “I’ve Seen the Promised Land” speech, how did Martin Luther King, Jr. spend his last night on earth?

In an all-night sex orgy with three white prostitute “friends,” one of whom he brutally beat. This was revealed by King’s closest associate, the man who cradled him in his arms when he died, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy.

7. What was Martin Luther King, Jr. heard to exclaim at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on FBI recordings?

“I’m f - - king for God,” and “I’m not a Negro tonight,” according to Newsweek magazine, page 62, published January 19, 1998. The Willard Hotel room bug yielded nineteen reels of tape detailing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s extra-marital and inter-racial sexual escapades.

8. Who paid for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prostitutes?

Some funds from both Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Southern Christian Leadership Council (S.C.L.C.) were used to pay for some of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sexual liaisons as well as for the food and liquor consumed at his orgies.

9. What was the Highlander Folk School, which was attended by both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks?

Myles Horton and Don West founded the Highlander Folk School, originally named Commonwealth College, in 1932. Both were Communist Party organizers. Besides recruiting future members, the Highlander Folk School was used as a way “to infiltrate the African-American community by, among other techniques, comparing the texts of the New Testament to those of Karl Marx.” Many civil rights’ groups, including the Southern Christian Leadership Council (S.C.L.C.), used it for training leaders. In 1962, Horton with Martin Luther King, Jr. as a sponsor, opened a satellite school in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Julius Rosenwald Fund financed it. Rosenwald’s daughter, Edith Stern, continued donations after her husband Alfred was indicted on spy charges and fled to Russia to escape arrest.

10. With whom and why did Martin Luther King, Jr. meet at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, over Labor Day, 1957?

Martin Luther King, Jr. attended a meeting at the Highlander Folk School with the purpose to formulate plans and strategies for racial demonstrations and riots throughout the South. He met with:
· Myles Horton, organizer of the Communist Party of Tennessee and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School;
· Don West, organizer of the Communist Party of North Carolina and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School;
· Abner Berry, Communist Party Central Committee member and Daily Worker writer;
· James Dumbrowski, Communist Party member and director of the Southern Conference Education Fund (S.C.E.F.), a communist front organization.
· Aubrey Williams, President of the Southern Conference Education Fund (S.C.E.F.), a communist front organization.

11. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s chief mentor and benefactor who prepared King’s taxes and raised funds for him?

Stanley Levinson. He was best known for laundering Soviet funds from KGB agent Isidore Needleman to the Communist Party USA via Canadian banks. Later, Levinson became the treasurer for the Communist Party USA.

12. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s personal secretary from 1955 to 1960?

Bayard Rustin was his personal secretary from 1955 to 1960 and was the organizer of the Washington marches. Rustin was a member of the Young Communist League. He attended the 1957 Convention of the Communist Party USA in February 1957. One month later, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) was formed. Before organizing the first March on Washington held in March 1958, Rustin went to Moscow. Rustin, then affiliated with the War Resisters League, also organized the second Washington March held on August 28, 1963. He served prison and jail sentences “for draft-dodging, lewd vagrancy, and homosexual perversion.”

13. Who was Jack O’Dell and what was his relationship to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Jack O’Dell, a.k.a. Hunter Pitts O’Dell, became Martin Luther King, Jr.’s secretary in 1961. As of 1962, O’Dell was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA, having been a member of the party since 1956. He was made Acting Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) on October 26, 1962. When the St. Louis Globe-Democrat revealed O’Dell’s communist affiliation, Martin Luther King, Jr. made a grand pretext of firing O’Dell. King, then, quietly rehired O’Dell as director of the New York office of the S.C.L.C.

14. What did the Communist Party USA’s official newspaper The Worker say about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his efforts?

The Worker called the first March on Washington in 1958 “a Communist project.” Benjamin J. Davis, in an article published in The Worker on November 10, 1963, praised Martin Luther King, Jr. as “a brilliant and practical leader.”

15. Who helped fund Martin Luther King, Jr.’s activities?

Karl Prussian, an FBI counterspy to the Communist Party USA, swore in testimony to Congress on March 30, 1965, that Martin Luther King, Jr. “willingly accepted support from over sixty Communist fronts” as well as individuals acknowledged and well-known to be avowed Communists. King held a financial conference with Communist Party representatives, unaware that one was an FBI infiltrator. A black member of the Communist Party USA of Cleveland and an FBI informant testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1979 that “we [the cells of the Communist Party USA] were continually being asked to raise money for Martin Luther King’s activities and to support his movement…I knew Martin Luther King to be closely connected with the Communist Party…” King received at least one check signed by a registered foreign agent of Fidel Castro, Benjamin Smith.

16. Was Martin Luther King, Jr. a communist?

No, Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. However, he described himself as a Marxist to his biographer, David Garrow who wrote The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. King told Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) staffers at a meeting, “We have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…We are engaged in the class struggle.” One of King’s more radical causes in his later years was a call for a government-quaranteed “minimum – and livable – income for every American family,” whether people were working or not as “a radical reconstruction of society itself.” He told a friend, “If we [Negroes] are to achieve real equality, the United States will have to adopt a modified form of socialism.” King preached at a retreat for civil rights’ movement leaders, “Something is wrong with capitalism.” In his sermon to the Clergy and Laity Concerned on April 4, 1967, King ridiculed Western culture as “arrogant,” called for the abandonment of “nationalism,” compared U.S. troops in Vietnam to Nazis, and warned, “We must not engage in a negative anti-communism.”

17. What book did Martin Luther King, Jr. write the forward to, despite his espousal of non-violence?

Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the forward to the book Negroes with Guns by Robert Williams, a black from Monroe, North Carolina, who moved to Cuba. Williams is best known for his “Radio Free Dixie” broadcasts from Havana over Fidel Castro’s high-powered AM transmitters. These radio shows, broadcasted three times a week, called for blacks to violently attack whites in the United States. The book’s editors and publisher were supporters of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a Communist front. Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald belonged to the group, also.

18. What liberal Martin Luther King, Jr. supporter and FBI Assistant Director was assigned to investigate him by J. Edgar Hoover?

William C. Sullivan wrote, at the beginning of his assignment, “I was one hundred percent for King…because I saw him as an effective and badly needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights.” Sullivan’s view changed over the years as he came to know the details of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and work. Sullivan, a thirty-year veteran of the FBI, concluded that King was “one of only seven people he had ever encountered who was a total degenerate.” In his official report to J. Edgar Hoover, Sullivan wrote that King “is the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of Communism, the Negro, and national security.”

19. Why are the FBI files on Martin Luther King, Jr. authorized by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, sealed until 2027?

Because the sealed FBI files reveal Martin Luther King, Jr.’s conduct in numerous “orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women,” according to Assistant FBI Director Charles D. Brennan in a letter to North Carolina Senator John P. East. Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. requested the sealing of these files because its release "would destroy his reputation.”

20. Why won’t the media or educators reveal the whole truth about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his movement?

Because the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday has become a profitable “feel-good lie” in the words of writer Geov Parrish. One unnamed veteran of the civil rights’ movement admitted, “Everybody was out getting laid.” In “Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.,” his friend Richard John Neuhaus reluctantly admitted “The movement…contained moral ingredients that would later become the libertine ‘counterculture’ of drugs and sexual license.” Furthermore, he admitted there would be no approval of the King holiday today if the truth were known. David Lewis wrote in his 1970 book King: A Critical Biography, “In the nation’s canonization of Martin King…we have sought to remember him by forgetting him.” Gerard Eisterhold designed the display of the Lorraine Motel rooms, where King was shot, at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. Eisterhold refused to include any depiction of the rooms’ occupants because it would be “close to blasphemy.”

To learn more about the truth regarding Martin Luther King, Jr., read:

· The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. by David J. Garrow (W. W. Norton & Co.: New York), 1981
· And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by Rev. Ralph Abernathy (Harper Collins: New York), 1991
· Plagiarism and the Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Other Prominent Americans by Theodore Pappas Halberg (Hallberg Publishing Corp.: Tampa), 1998
· Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marshall Frady (Viking Penguin, Inc.: New York), 2002
· I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson (Simon & Schuster: New York), 2001
· Why the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Should Be Repealed: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Life and the Aftereffects (The Creativity Movement) available in PDF format at http://www.martinlutherking.org/articles/the_king_holiday.pdf
The King Holiday and Its Meaning by Senator Jesse Helms (Council of Conservative Citizens: St. Louis), 1990s.
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volumes I-V (The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute: Stanford), 1992 to 2005.
“Abolish the King Holiday: King’s Record Has Been Sealed by Court Order Until the Year 2027—Why???” by Dr. Ed Fields (Truth Tract No. 3: The Truth at Last, P.O. Box 1211, Marietta, GA 30061)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Test

1. What is Martin Luther King Jr.’s, real name?

2. What did President Lyndon B. Johnson call Martin Luther King, Jr., after receiving J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI report?

3. How much of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, doctoral dissertation for Boston University was plagiarized?

4. Was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, dissertation the only incident of his plagiarism?

5. Who attempted to suppress knowledge of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, plagiarism?

6. After delivering his famous “I’ve Seen the Promised Land” speech, how did Martin Luther King, Jr., spend his last night on earth?

7. What was Martin Luther King, Jr., heard to exclaim at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on FBI recordings?

8. Who paid for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, prostitutes?

9. What was the Highlander Folk School School, which was attended by both Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks?

10. With whom and why did Martin Luther King, Jr., meet at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, over Labor Day, 1957?

11. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, chief mentor and benefactor who prepared King’s taxes and raised funds for him?

12. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, personal secretary from 1955 to 1960?

13. Who was Jack O’Dell and what was his relationship to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

14. What did the Communist Party USA’s official newspaper The Worker say about Martin Luther King, Jr., and his efforts?

15. Who helped fund Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, activities?

16. Was Martin Luther King, Jr., a communist?

17. What book did Martin Luther King, Jr., write the forward to, despite his espousal of non-violence?

18. What liberal Martin Luther King, Jr., supporter and FBI Assistant Director was assigned to investigate him by J. Edgar Hoover?

19. Why are the FBI tapes on Martin Luther King, Jr., authorized by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, sealed until 2027?

20. Why won’t the media or educators reveal the whole truth about Martin Luther King, Jr., and his movement?

The answers to this Martin Luther King, Jr., test will be posted tomorrow at http://yankeereb.blogspot.com/ ?

Why Should the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Be Abolished?

The entire country has been brainwashed. All fifty states have been conned into recognizing the Martin Luther King holiday. New Hampshire was the last to succumb; its legislature voted in 1999 to begin observing the holiday in 2000. Sadly, Hitler's P.R. guy Goebbels was right: Repeat a lie often enough and it will become the truth.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday should be abolished. Only historical distortion, amnesia, and revisionism keep this holiday on the calendar. Heck, if modern historians and politicians cared a twit for historical accuracy, the holiday would be known by a different name. Not only was Martin Luther King, Jr., not a saint, he was not even a hero. He should not be emulated or held up to our young people as someone to admire or follow.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a phony, a liar, a pervert, and an enemy of the United States, in my opinion. I curse his assassin because had Martin Luther King, Jr., lived longer, Americans would know the truth about this man. Instead, white guilt has shrouded the truth and cloaked this devil in pseudo-sainthood.

Take the Martin Luther King, Jr., Test to understand why I believe this holiday should be abolished. The answers will be posted tomorrow.

Pat Robertson Predicts Terrorist Attack in 2007

From the Associated Press, Jan. 3, 2007: Pat Robertson, on a 700 Club broadcast, predicted a "mass killing" terrorist attack "sometime after September." Robertson claimed God had "told him" this attack would happen. However, he admitted that he sometimes misses on his annual predictions. (See http://www.beliefnet.com/story/208/story_20853_1.html for full details.)

Now, I have no problem with Rev. Robertson or anyone speculating on what may happen in the future. In college and afterwards, my friends and I enjoyed an annual parlor game of predicting the new year's events. One of us would record and save the list of everyone's predictions, which would be read at the next New Year's Eve party.

This tradition began, to the best of my recollection, when one of us (I forget who but it wasn't me) became fascinated by tabloid prognostications. Our college chaplain, Fr. Anton J. Borer, SMB, challenged our gullibility about these so-called psychics by having us make our own forecasts. We predicted things that would happen worldwide or to the nation or more locally. We also forecast things in our own and our family's or friends' lives. He carefully recorded all our predictions. His theory was we would be just as accurate as then-famous forecasters such as Jeanne Dixon.

That is exactly what happened that first year. We found we were right about fifty percent of the time, which meant we were wrong fifty percent. That batting average continued to hold more or less true every year. After that first year, none of us took any such predictions seriously and joked about our "fearless forecasts" made as a way to pass the time before midnight on New Year's Eve.

In later years, I continued this tradition with my Mom and now do it by myself. Each year, a few predictions are right on the money. Others are partially true; others are completely wrong. In no way to I consider even the accurate ones some kind of psychic ability. I believe that anyone will get lucky on a few if they make enough predictions.

Pat Robertson crosses the bar, though, when he states that "God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack..." (emphasis added). The words "God told" makes Robertson's prediction a prophecy. That means it must happen. If it does not, then there are only two conclusions. Either God is a liar or Robertson is a false prophet. Robertson digs himself a deeper hole when he cautions, "Sometimes I miss" on these predictions given to him by God. Jeremiah 23: 31-32 (New International Version) warns:

"Yes," declares the LORD, "I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, 'The LORD declares.' Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," declares the LORD. "They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least," declares the LORD.

According to John 8:44, Satan, not God, is the father of lies. Prophecies from God will occur precisely as predicted down to the minutest detail. Anyone, including Pat Robertson, who claims an event will happen because God said it would must be 100 percent accurate. Deuteronomy 18:21-22 (NIV) provides the way to discern prophecy:

You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?" If what a prophet proclaims in the ame of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

God does not "miss." If the event does not happen, then believers can know that the forecast was authored by Satan, and the forecaster is a false prophet. It is a good thing that Robertson did not live during Old Testament times. The penalty for "misses" in prophecy was death.

Goodbye, President Ford

I watched the funeral for President Gerald R. Ford, this morning. It was moving and fitting for the former President. The dignity and ceremony of these national rituals, I believe, are helpful and healing to us as a nation. They remind me of what is important in life: family, relationships, faith in God. As a political activist, it is easy to forget these values in the heat of partisan advocacy.

President Ford was a good example of political civility. President Ford was a loyal Republican. As a leader in the House and as President of the Senate, he "loved a good fight." At the end of the day, though, he could slap Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill on the back and join him in a drink. President Ford understood that good men (and women) could disagree without being disagreeable. He realized bad ideas could come from good people.

Presidential funerals also give us review lessons in history. I remember being very upset, like most Americans, when President Ford pardoned President Nixon. At the time, I could not understand taking that action before a trial and conviction. Looking back, I can see President Ford's wisdom in quickly ending the "national nightmare" of Watergate. President Nixon resigned in disgrace, a punishment probably worse than prison to that prideful man. It reminds me to be cautious in being too quick to judge the presidencies of Carter and Clinton, whom I did not like, or today's President Bush, whom I do. Good historical analysis requires the perspective that only comes with the passage of time.

Watching the coverage of these funerals also supplies some good trivia, too. I don't think I ever knew that President Ford's middle name was "Rudolph." I didn't know that the casket stand used in the Capitol was originally built for President Abraham Lincoln's coffin. The fabric has been replaced but is draped exactly as it was when Lincoln laid in state. I had forgotten that President Ford had two assassination attempts. I remembered the one by Streaky Fromm, probably because a woman was the perpetrator which made it unusual. Does anyone remember who made the other attempt?

Getting Started

This fulfills my first resolution of 2007. I resolved to start a blog. Does this make me part of the "you" generation, honored by Time magazine as "Man of the Year"?

The second resolution I made was to do more writing and journalling. I've kept a journal in one form or another since I was sixteen. That was more than forty years ago. I'm halfway through Volume 31 of my hand-written journals. Blogging seems to be a natural next step.

Journalling has been the way I have formed, developed, refined, affirmed and sometimes changed my views and beliefs over the years. It has helped me work through crises at a cost much lower than therapy. The older I get, the more I use my diaries as a way to record and preserve contemporary history and my reactions to those events. Journals are a place to remember.

This is why I chose to call my blog "Recordor et Credo" (I Remember & Believe). It will be a compilation of one middle-aged woman's memories, experiences, and beliefs. In it, I will use "I-statements:" "I believe," "I should," "I think," etc. I am not here to impose my beliefs, ideas, etc., on others with statements like "you should" or "you must" or "you ought to." I hope those who choose to leave comments will do the same.