Posted on 07/10/2009 8:30:27 PM PDT by smokingfrog
HOUSTON - Loud voices, finger pointing, and name calling erupted under a billboard bearing the image of a man who dreamed of peace Friday.
The billboard and its claim that Martin Luther King Jr. was a republican is the brainchild of Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, founder of Houston-based RagingElephants.org , a grass roots group hoping to appeal to minorities.
"We're going to make a very earnest serious aggressive attempt to lure them to the conservative voting base," Kamau-Imani said.
But not everyone agrees.
"Dr. King may have supported some of the principles-- anti-abortion, same-sex marriage--I understand that,” community activist Quanell X said. “But to say to people with a billboard that he’s a republican is untruthful."
The billboard has sparked a heated debate, which is exactly what one side wanted.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxhouston.com ...
he was and blacks didnt know it
they also dont know alot of things
at least at my schools they dont
“But to say to people with a billboard that he’s a republican is untruthful.”
Except that he was.
Republicans may have changed since 1968, but not that much. One big change, I guess, is that Republicans have taken over the Democrats’ place as primary war-mongers (King being a critic of Vietnam, if I have it right). Although Republican wars since the hippy-dippy peace movement have been significantly smaller than those of the Democrats since Wilson.
Plus, when you get them talking about Darfur, Kosovo, Rwanda, or Somalia, Dems are just as big on the military as we are.
Too bad the Race-Baiting, money-hungry, leftists took over his legacy long ago........
Good for them! It’s about time Black America knew the truth. So many idolize MLK; let them know his party affiliation. Let them know that the Civil Rights Act had far more Republican support in Congress than Democrat. The stinking Dems have hijacked the black vote for long enough, keeping them indentured servants to the Jackass party. And oh, the outrage if they actually take advantage of their hard-earned right to vote and choose to support the Republicans! Disgusting.
Good for Raging Elephants!!
They should put up another sign:
Democrats Owned Slaves
Or how about:
Democrats: Against Apartheid Since 1965 (Better Late Than Never)
How about:
Democrats: The Party of Peace (Not counting WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Kosovo...)
According to teh NBRA, Dr. ALveda King, MLK's niece says he was a Republican, as were the majority of Blacks in the South at the time.
The best thing I recall is Quanell and a few of his henchmen, dressed in what looked like tailor made suits got out of a big black car and tried to start a march.
The neighbors ran them out of town--they actually physically chased them out of their neighborhood!
I think MLK could probably more truthfully be called a conservative instead of a Republican, but that's just MHO.
A few years back I taught in a Christian school; during Black History Month I would take a few days, not a month, to teach about Civil Rights, in the context that it doesn’t belong to any one group of people.
Around MLK’s birthday I would look for articles and current event items that discussed King’s achievements within a spiritual context, which is why he was able to do what he did, writings on this topic ~ in the news or in textbooks ~ were completely and totally absent.
BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY
NOTE: All answers are "b."
1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP who were themselves white?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the1957 Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and is spending over $200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper, including school vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home ownership, and small business ownership?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
____________________________________
BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY - PART II
NOTE: In the The Black Republican magazine on page 51, all answers are "Republican Party" and on page 52, all answers are "Democratic Party".
10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
13. What was the Party of President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president, and later had the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
14. What is the Party of current Senator Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who recently insulted black judicial nominees by calling them “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
17. What Party is against the faith-based initiative, against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
I have my doubts about that also.
Is it true or false that Dr. MLK hung around w/ communists?
Is it not true that communists played an essential part in the original civil roghts movement?
What are the facts about this, if anyone knows?
Typical distortion of history by the left. Dr. King was indeed a republican and an outspoken critic of the Democratic party who founded the KKK, imposed Jim Crow laws and fought against every single voter or civil rights bill brought forth from reconstruction through the early 1970’s.
Dr. King’s family is outspoken about his political affiliation and the black community would do themselves a favor by listening to them instead of a raving lunatic like Quannel-X.
The Civil War was not North against the South. It was the Republicans against the democrats. This is why most people claim it was brother against brother.
I do not have links handy but in research I’ve done on Dr. King’s life his connections to communists were trumped up charges levied against him by CIA and FBI and ramped up during the Kennedy Administration to discredit him.
The closest I could find to a connection between communists and King was when he met with union leaders and members of the DNC.
machosauce!
he was a republican. That is a fact.
In Fact, didn’t the dems prevent blacks from registering as democrats by using Jim Crowe laws?
Why don’t people throw a fit over “Jesus was a liberal.” bumper stickers?
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