Of course this is lunacy. The Communist Party was inconsequential in 1962. The Nation of Islam was what it’s always been, a freak show. They got a certain amount of attention, but ultimately it was a sect / grift which commanded the loyalty of maybe 20,000 people.

Nothing terribly mysterious about Obama’s life up to 2004. What is odd is the degree to which this tyro / ticketpuncher was salable to the public and how his staff was able to invade extant fundraising networks and push more consequential figures out of the way. The whole story suggests the arts of the advertising agency may be more consequential than we might have realized – not merely with voters but with donors who put their money on the line.

That is assuming the FBI got some real dirt on King, and didn’t just get him killed because they failed to blackmail him.

Blackmail works the way you all see it with Justice Roberts or General Petraeus. Think on that for a second. It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be blackmail.

Nice, isn’t it. All that American dirt being uncovered.

If only that perspective was applied to the children taught indoctrination from Jesuit and Church of Rome institutions, when it comes to the many saints and humans persecuted and burned alive by said Church of Rome institutions.

As with Jordan P, humanity’s incessant desire to find a guru or god to mimick, or in the case of Trum a God King Savior, is rather disturbing. And pathetic of course.

King wasn’t even particularly religious. Both King and Malcom X conveniently died off right before they went public criticizing socialist/welfare or Nation of Islam. The civil rights movement killed their own, just when they were starting to become a loose cannon. Then they milked their legends for all it was worth. Sorta like the South did with Lee and the Founder of the KKK.

WRT the plagiarism… I read some time ago that over twenty-two thousand PhD dissertations have been done on Shakespeare. Hard to imagine the most recent five thousand broke new ground.
And a D D…. Being a minister of the Word and Sacrament is the important thing. The D.D. is a resume’ enhancer. Rather call him “Reverend” or “Pastor”.
Now, given all the D.D. out there, it’s likely that a word aggregator program, assigned the subject of “Christianity” would be found to be coming close to plagiarism of more than one paper. There’s just so much to say but you have to say something.
My father, decades ago, thought of writing some fiction and he figured classic mythology was in the public domain. Got out his Bulfinch and…there are no new plots.

What is not adequately appreciated now is the way that MLK Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech — and, let’s face it, that speech just IS King in the public mind — is a fundamentally anti-leftism speech.

R.C.: I had a similar “I question the timing” thought myself.

I have noticed how annoyed the left gets when conservatives quote King’s line about “the content of their character.” They don’t have a good response and it makes their heads hurt.

Arguably, Bill Cosby became expendable after he began lecturing the black community to “pull up their pants” and take care of their business instead of blaming whites. It’s a shame Cosby’s feet of clay 86’d his voice.

Unfortunately, the emotional needs of many persons are better satisfied by a dramatic social narrative and “exciting” stories of good (their wants) versus evil (those persons not interested in their wants), than by the record of a government keeping the streets lit and clean and safe.