I don t, but we have the benefit of Theodore Pappas s scholarship, as published in
Chronicles and in his book
Pappas is the man who exposed the fact that Martin Luther King s PhD. dissertation was plagiarized, and that multiple MSM and academic sources had known this, but refused to publish it.
King received a Bachelor of Divinity from Crozer Theological Seminary, a Northern Baptist seminary which had first graduated a black student in 1937. Crozer’s Professor Morton Enslin wrote a letter of recommendation for MLK to Boston University, from which King would graduate with a fraudulent (because his dissertation was plagiarized) PhD.
In reference to Jarvis Deberry s Dec. 17 commentary in this newspaper, It s the Jeff School Board vs. everybody with sense, the most outstanding statements in his commentary are: âSchool officials and school boards stopped aspiring to wisdom a generation or so ago. The new norm is an unyielding dedication to rules ..
What happened to children and students first? What happened to love, empathy, compassion, humbleness, understanding, fairness and sensibility? What happened to working in the best interest of the students? What happened to doing the right thing?
What more could these two students, Ka Mauri Harrison and Tomie Brown, have done? They both are reportedly good students, academically and behaviorally. They both admitted to the offense and both apologized for breaking the rule: possession of a weapon at school (on campus), although in both cases the handling of a BB gun actually happened in their homes as seen during a virtual instruction session mandated as an altern