Posted on 07/12/2009 6:49:15 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Dr. Alveda C. King, who claims her uncle was a Republican, along with her father and grandfather. She says the issue of abortion - the rights of the "preborn" - is the issue that demands focus today in upholding the rights of all people. She does not say she believes her uncle would be a Republican today, but the implication is certainly there. The video is put out by the National Black Republican Association (NBRA).
It sheds some light on the story we posted earlier about the controversy created by a billboard in Houston, Texas claiming Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. . . . (Watch Video)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
The old Republican Party was in some ways to the left of the old Democrat Party. It was Nixon who established the EPA and also price controls. Many of the most liberal members of the Supreme Court in the last 50 years were appointed by Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford.
The top income tax rate under Eisenhower was 92 percent.
It’s safe to say that the Republicans were not really conservative until Reagan got in. Goldwater was conservative but obviously was never elected.
Fascinating.
parsy, who never knew this
Ms. Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association wrote: "The Democrat Party has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism
Entitlements bought the Democrats the Black Vote, bought them a President as well.
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"....the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King."
"In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968."
Why Martin Luther King Was Republican by Frances Rice 08/16/2006
Most blacks in the south were republicans before 1965 and most rebel whites (and the KKK) were democrats...
One of the most factually dubious articles written by a credible individual. It’s been debunked more times on FR than I care to imagine.
It is a fact of history that the Republican Party was founded specifically to fight the expansion of slavery.
Until FDR’s time, practically all blacks who could vote were Republicans. Denial of the franchise was what created the true base of the Democrat Party for the first two thirds of the twentieth century, the “solid south.”
The part about A. Phillip Randolph being a Republican was a jaw-dropper, especially given that Randolph was a major-league Socialist and was (along with his wife) Congressional candidates from Manhattan in the 1910s on the Socialist Party ticket. We don’t even know if MLK, Jr. was registered as a Republican at any given time. His father was one until early 1960, but they switched to supporting JFK and never looked back. It is correct most Southern Blacks were Republicans until the 1960s, but most were barred from voting. Had they not been from the imposition of Jim Crow, you’d have had Black GOP officeholders well up until that period from Southern states. Black Republicanism in the North began to rapidly decline under FDR until it was moribund by 1960 (partly because most Blacks lived in cities dominated by Democrat Urban Machines — you had to vote Dem if you wanted to “get along”, say, “pay to play.”).
If MLK, Jr. was Republican, it would’ve been for a brief period in the 1950s, but he was a big believer in big government/federal intervention over local government (which was understandable, given local governments were dominated by racist White Dems), but that ultimately inflicted enormous damage to the Black community. But celebrating him “as a Republican” would be like celebrating Arlen Specter or Jim Jeffords or Lincoln Chafee as Republicans, they were until they switched parties because they were more supportive of Socialist measures.
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