From: ajh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Hu)
Subject: Re: ***WARNING*** Dr. King's speech has been censored
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:25:06 GMT

In article <C1439y.6np@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> achen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (neptune) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.002050.1897@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> webihara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Wataru Ebihara) writes:
	[Text of wonderful speech deleted.  Thanks, Wataru!]
>>the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last.  Thank God
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>>Almighty, we are free at last."
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>The original UNCENSORED version of the last paragraph should be:
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>When we let freedom ring, ... , will be able to join hands and
>sing in the words of the old NEGRO spiritual, "Free at last,
>free at last.  Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
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Thank you, achen and Rikiya, for the correction.

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>It is very, very unfortunate that the politically correct crowd
>has even managed to censor one of the most famous speeches made
>by an American in recent times, just to make it more palatable.

Why, WHY, *WHY* do people have to resort to calling *anything* they
disagree with as being censorship by "the politically correct crowd"???

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>I don't know who is responsible for this censoring.

Thank you for admitting this.
							Is it the
>original poster of this article, or is it Mr. Gerald Murphy of
>NPTN?
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>If it is the original poster, Wataru Ebihara, your name sounds
>Japanese.  Your people (or in the words of Ross Perot, you people)
>have already earned quite a reputation for rewriting history 
>( e.g. WWII history, Nanjing massacre, etc.) to make it more
>digestable.  Please don't do it.  You are only rienforcing the
>stereotype of the Japanese as people who have insatiable urges
>to rewrite history.

This kind of racist, personal attack is totally uncalled for.
Wataru has consistently shown himself to be a paragon of courtesy,
exemplar of civic duty, and defender of reason, racial harmony,
and equality.  I think someone owes Wataru an apology...

					--Alan Hu

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>If this censoring was done by Mr. Gerald Murphy of NPTN, then
>it is even more tragic.  It means that now people who have
>access to the powers of mass media and communications are
>also practicing the art of censoring and rewriting history
>here in America for the sake of being in line with the current
>poitical winds.  America may be heading into some very dark
>and dangerous times where freedom of expression may be curtailed.
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>I suggest that interested people go to the nearest public library
>and listen to the recordings of the original speech made by
>Dr. Martin Luther King. ... unless the orignal recordings have
>been already censored and rewritten.

	Good advice.

>>Prepared by Gerald Murphy (The Cleveland Free-Net - aa300)
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