Posted on 03/16/2013 1:38:22 PM PDT by Epsdude
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four Ss: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.
Read more: http://www.humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/
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He did have a house full of guns, though. Mostly for self-defense of course.
I Know I would have voted against the civil rights act too, although not because I have anything against civil rights or any minority.
The problem with these acts is how they “attempted” to restore and protect said rights was not only entirely unconstitutional, it was offensive to the very idea of union between theses States that a law would be made that applies only to some and not to all.
Indeed taken as a whole I am quite certant that the Civil Rights acts did far more harm the civil rights than good. I would have voted against them on all 3 accounts and I will fight implementation on the Constitutional account.
This act is indeed a very mark upon both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Not that I was a fan of the movie, but I love the one scene where the lily-white liberal coed goes up to Malcolm, obviously fawning over him and asking, “What can we do to help your cause?” And Malcolm just looks at her and says, “Nothing.”
If the 1949 version of JFK came to our era through a time warp, he might be speaking at CPAC. However, by 1960, Kennedy had become a supporter of big government, big labor and welfare-state socialism, so if that version of JFK came here through a time warp and registered Republican, he would be part of the Karl Rove/John McCain/Susan Collins faction of the party.
JFK was a democrat from America’s leading democrat family, and he was a lefty, and his election was the end of America.
Bayard Rustin later moved off of that reservation. In 1979, I saw him lead a demonstration in Washington, DC on behalf of refugees from Vietnam's Communist government--a rally that was condemned by Jane Fonda.
I think both of them would have if you ask me. Given what I know about JFK(did a few reports on him) I don’t think most people have any idea what kind of rotten guy JFK really was.
He is idealized primarily because he was a democrat and he died at a special time.
People forget that without the JFK presidency, the government would not be unionized, Vietnam never happened, liberal democrat immigration never happened, the 1960s never happened, even the homeless never happened.
In other words, America, the GOP, and even the democrats would all be far less lefty today.
So comparing apples to oranges doesn’t work well, without the tectonic shift of the democrats controlling all government during the 1960s, a typical politician would be more conservative in speech and agenda, and answering to an entirely different electorate than this last 100 million people gave us.
Why is this being posted again ? This was a notoriously bad article and poorly researched (the title alone was factually inaccurate). This has been debunked many times since it was posted here... 7 years ago.
It was, yet some well-meaning FReepers keep reposting it. It gives me a headache every time it shows up.
How would things be different today if Nixon had shaved on September 26, 1960, before he debated JFK?
Watergate would of happened 8 years earlier! And so would everything else that followed, including Obammie.
So...how do we know King was a Republican? Voter registration card? Did he endorse a Republican for office? King’s writings? How?
How would things be different today if Nixon had shaved on September 26, 1960, before he debated JFK?
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Gotta be careful with the ‘what if’n’ UNLESS you are a D.
Trent Lott got ‘fired’ for asking what if Jesse Helms had been elected in 1948.
Of course it was OK to eulogize “Sheetz BYRD” D(WV) for his long and fruitful life of service to the people.
Including (?) his tours in the KKK or was that just a ‘youthful indiscretion’..... At his age one may plead he had no other ‘way to go’ IF he was in MS, AL etc but wasn’t WV ‘invented’ because they didn’t want to go the way of the South?
Conservative media has, or is well on it’s way to becoming as fake and dishonest as liberal media, everyone just says what sounds good for their team or that gets the juices flowing.
I am really discouraged with all of it.
Very revealing JFK on mass immigration. Is this from a book in your home library?
Strom Thurmond, not Jesse Helms.
It’s not the fault of “Conservative media.” This was a sloppy column written by Frances Rice. What’s unfortunate is that it did have some valid points to make, but it was marred by a title that simply wasn’t accurate (at least, not after 1960 or 1956) and by other mistakes (another individual she identified as a Republican was a candidate for and member of the New York Socialist Party).
No, I don’t own the book.
JFK was what finished us, the destruction of 1935 to 1960 could have been dealt with during the cycles of political change over the generations, but the 1965 Immigration Act ended all of that, and has made us a people’s being colonized by exotic foreigners who will run this piece of geography as they see fit, after first bleeding the old infrastructure for short term gain and self enrichment, millions of whom will return home after making their fortunes here and plugging into the retirement system, having retained citizenship both here and in their home nation with it’s still intact culture.
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