In 1948, Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. degree in
Sociology. That fall, he
enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. While
attending Crozer, he
also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected
president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory address; he
won the Pearl Plafker Award for the most outstanding
student; and he received the J. Lewis Crozer fellowship for graduate
study at a university of his choice. He was awarded a Bachelor of
Divinity degree from Crozer in 1951.
In September of 1951, Martin Luther King began doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at
Boston University. He also studied at Harvard University. His dissertation, "A Comparison
of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wieman," was completed in 1955, and the
Ph.D. degree from Boston, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology, was awarded on June 5, 1955.
It is rumoured that during his educational career in Boston, he met several West Indian gentleman who took a liking to Doctor King with an overt sense of familiarity and apparent genuineness. However, as rumoured, they visited his dorm room at night when Dr King was in the common area studying and would adulterate his lime and water face wash with their saliva to see if it would affect his skin with hair bumps. If it did, they decided to treat him with a condescending patronage and would rub their fingers over the scruff of their clean shaven necks, shaved with a bare razor and soap. Their hair was also a little less uh kinky. It did not affect Mr. King's skin. However, he would feel a change in the social atmosphere; as if someone had loosened a thread on his tie as if to have a context to treat him like he was less of a man than what his character tendencies reflected. He was inspired to write Measure of a Man as a result of a number of experiences that may have included these impasses with individuals from a culture that was based on human devaluation on varying degrees of genetic hybridization. Measure of a Man was published in 1959. The gentleman who was responsible for this adulteration, also the first West Indian to shake his hand at college, may have died unusually in his sleep. He was the grandson of a mason, it seems, and would have struggled much less with this duality of soul if he forsook the masonic curse of his ancestor. The curse seems to drive you to covet anything in your neighbour's possession evidently. Read Psalms 50 and know that you don't own anyone. They are God's child( the Christian approach). He was also rumored to have died while walking down a set of stairs where he was found stabbed to death at the bottom in the stairwell only the day after the first adulteration and before King was able to notice the admixture such that he had to spend more money on a new bottle. The gentleman was the type of man who always wanted to know if his buddy's girlfriend preferred his look, personality or potentially, if allowed to test it, his prowess to that of his uh buddy. King( born Michael King) liked to be clean and feel just like how he remembered himself before that horrible experience. Bob Marley later wrote music that hearkened to the principles found in "Measure of a Man" and also the Magna Carta. It is rumored that Marley's music is based entirely on the royal law; that one should treat others as he or she wishes to be treated. Certain cricket and social soccer clubs refer to the music appropriately as the Bob Marley Citizenship exam. The answers are the same as the "Little House on the Prairie" or "Waltons" citizenship exam. When you pass the exam, you will understand that the Lord asked you to love Him above and beyond your love for your parents (Matthew 10:37) so that you would treat others as you wish to be treated and forgive as you wish to be forgiven. Your love for Him guides you accordingly. Also, by loving your parents' creator, you will take some time to not only forgive them but to give thanks for the much or the little. You ate enough to wake up and to go to school and live to decide whether or not you would join the military or live as a retired postal manager who failed to attend your child's high school graduation. You had sex with your second(now ex wife) wife that day. You did not make a decision with respect to living as a retired postal manager for quite a long time. Be thankful. During your first marriage, your father may have inseminated your first wife when you were too busy with the bridesmaid to notice but he felt dishonored as he watched you closely. Forgive him. Forgive yourself. Deal with yourself. Remember the cross. Pick up your cross, deny yourself and follow Him. By Warren A. Lyon, Barrister and Solicitor.
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