Last I'd heard, it's correct.
It was southern Dems that started the KKK, but I don't think MLK was a Republican.
its probably true. Not only that i bet most Democrats are criminals too.
Well,of course THEY did!His name is Nathan Bedford Forrest!!By the way,(in case Charlie Rangel doesn't know),"Bull"Conner was a DemonRat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know about the MLK thing (it might be true I just have never heard it before) the KKK thing seems pretty accurate though.
Can't wait for this to be released.
Exclusive to NewsMax.com
By Jason Apuzzo & Govindini Murty
New Film Praises Republicans' Role in Civil Rights Movement
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Nina May and Tricia Erickson's inspiring new film "Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution" is one such documentary that portrays the foundational role of the Republican Party in ending slavery and supporting the Civil Rights movement. The film argues that the Republican Party was created to end slavery. Major legal reforms and acts of legislation passed to give black Americans the vote; and full civil rights, equal to whites, were created and passed by Republican legislators.
http://www.errvideo.com/Press/newfilm.html
The attempts to discredit the information are going to be intense. However, if your going to make the claim be ready with the documented facts of the case, in fact you should lead with them becaues the MSM is not going to let your facts post claim reach the airwaves in front of bellicose staged indignation...
MLK a Republican? No way!
Democrats-KKK? True!
The ad is the truth.
Lincoln and the Republicans and the abolitionists were on the same side.
The southern and northern democrats were content to retain slavery with no protest permitted.
All of the anti-black sentiment from the Civil War until now came out of the Democrat party. Everything from George Wallace to Jim Crow was Democrat.
African Americans should come home to their true home, the party of Lincoln and Emancipation.
I think MLK, Sr., was a Republican.
They can always argue, "what's in the name?" The 'roles' seem to be exchanged. After all, nowadays the South is Republican strength, and those places that used to be the bastion of Republican party slowly turned Democrats. I wonder if at one point Republican was seen as the 'progressive, liberal' party in social issue, while Democrat was the more conservative one. On economic issue, the roles seem the same as today, I think.
It is absolutely true, that the Democratic party was the party of rich southern slave owners.
It is also true, that the Republicans in NY rioted against the draft, not wanting to die to defend a bunch of southern slaves.
No one's hands are clean.
Lot's of good first hand info of the period during and after the War Between the States here: http://memory.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Search for "reconstruction" and "KKK" (and its variants). You will see why it was impossible for a Republican to get elected in the South for almost a hunderd years after reconstruction. Democrats were elected because they would keep the Negro down.
A good book, still available, is Charles William Ramsdell's RECONSTRUCTION IN TEXAS (copyright 1910).
It's histroically accurate.
Don't know how it'll play though....without seeing the ad...
The KKK was the militant wing of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party was the author of the "Jim Crow" racial laws, they were the party of race obsession and race repression for a century after the Civil War, and they were the party dedicated to the protection of slavery as an institution prior to the war.
The Republican Party was started by religious folk who abandoned their previous party because it refused to take a stand on slavery. The GOP was the "abolitionist" party from day one.
The abolitionist movement was a distinct minority in politics prior to the Civil War, even in the North, but from the moment the party was established to the moment slavery was abolished, only a very few years passed, only a decade; you could almost choose to see the hand of God, were you so inclined. They formed in the mid-1850s; elected Lincoln in 1860, and slavery was gone by 1865.
They opposed Jim Crow race repression all during the bad old days, and were the Civil Rights party when Civil Rights wasn't cool.
When you see old photographs of lynch mobs, of civil rights marchers being put down with fire hoses and clubs, when you see photos of crosses burning, you should understand that these are photos of Democrats in action. The men with the guns and the clubs and the ropes and the torches are Democrats, every last one of them. Thats their history. You can understand why they want so badly to re-write history. It isn't very pretty.