Posted on 09/21/2006 3:21:46 PM PDT by steve-b
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers....
(Excerpt) Read more at enews.earthlink.net ...
I don't know about MLK but the KKK thing isn't exactly an accusation, it's a fact.
And just when are these morons gonna figure out that Maryland IS in the South?
Just made that one up, no news there.
A-yup. It was the IRA to the Democrats' Sinn Fein after the Civil War.
OH my, where was the AP when dickie gephardt ran ads that Republicans burn down black churches and basically said it was in their genes.
Challenged by researchers? You mean, it may be true?! Heee!
File under "who cares?"
boy, sure seems that ad ain't lyin...why pull it ?
if the MLK part is iffy, yank that part of it.
Well, if the show fits...
The Dems have historically been the racist party...
True; but then, dealing with truth isn't their strong suit.
Let's ask Senator Byrd what he knows about this.
Bull Connor - democrat
George Wallace - democrat
Lester Maddox - democrat
October 13, 1858 During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee.
April 16, 1862 President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no.
April 8, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition.
September 3, 1868 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress.
October 7, 1868 Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”
January 17, 1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government
September 14, 1874 Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed
January 15, 1901 Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans
February 12, 1909 On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP
Need I continue?
Absolutely correct.
last I saw the Mason Dixon line ran between MD and PA.... could be wrong however.... But I don't think so
Dems, reaping the whirlwind, category .01 at current muster, by my count, but rising.
Great page there, thanks for the link.
It's amazing how few black people know the roots of the RNC in the abolition movement. Not to mention they don't know the KKK was an activist wing of the DNC.
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