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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 S's: 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...

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Is This Dr. King's Dream for Black America? Rev. Peterson Says Barack Obama is no M.L.K. Ermias Alemayehu 213 804-1872 LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Wednesday the Democratic Party made it official by nominating Sen. Barack Obama as their presidential candidate. Barack Obama is scheduled to give his formal acceptance speech tonight. His address coincides with the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. Radio talk show host and social commentator Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson says no amount of phony Hollywood theatrics can hide the fact that Sen. Obama's agenda is...

Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has a message for pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama before he gives his acceptance speech tonight. Dr. Alveda King tells LifeNews.com that her uncle would have strongly opposed the destruction of human life under the kind of unlimited abortions Obama supports. Obama's speech has been hailed by the media because he is the first African-American nominee of a major political party and because it comes on the 45th anniversary of King's "I Have a Dream" speech.Alveda King called her uncle "a man of great compassion, and a man...

DENVER (AP) — John McCain is airing a one-evening-only ad with a simple message for Barack Obama: "Job well done." The ad coincides with Obama's nomination acceptance speech.

I love Ward Connerly. Simple as that. Were he running for office on any party ticket, it would take some strong competition to tear my vote away. I'd even smile at a Ward Connerly/Bill "Fat Albert" Cosby ticket. Connerly is a powerhouse dedicated to tearing down the mentality of inequality in America that masquerades as "equality" under affirmative action. After successfully passing California's Prop 209, Connerly founded The American Civil Rights Institute together with President of National Review, Dusty Rhodes, back in 1996. The Institude was designed to educate the public on the harms of racial and gender preferences... calling...

VideoI am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life...

On today's 45th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Alveda King - a pastoral associate for Priests For Life and niece of the late civil rights leader - released this statement: "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of God, a man of great compassion, and a man of non-violence, once said, 'The Negro cannot win as long as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for comfort and safety.' I know in my heart that if Uncle Martin were alive today, he would join with me in the greatest...

BLACK REPUBLICANS PLASTER BILLBOARDS IN DENVER" MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS A REPUBLICAN! How great is this? The National Black Republican Association is running 50 billboards across lunatic central - Denver, host to the DNC. How many people know Martin Luther King was a Republican? Or that the Republican party was the party of the abolition of slavery? Or that the Republicans were the party of civil rights? Check out some of these leading lights of the GOP through American history. You must read:The Democrats' Missing History A Walk in the Democratic Party’s Racist Graveyard By Frances Rice Unveiled: Democrats’ Racist...

National Black Republican Association In her article, "A Covenant With Life: Reclaiming MLK’s Legacy", MLK's niece, Dr. Alveda C. King, affirms that her uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican   This appears in a Priests for Life Fall/Winter 2008 publication, linked as above from the NBRA website.A Covenant With Life:Reclaiming MLK’s LegacyBy Dr. Alveda C. King – Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.America has entered into a covenant or a culture of death.  May God have mercy, and restore us to a covenant of life!<snip>"My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or “Daddy King”, was a...

Two of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s children are suing their brother, accusing him of wrongfully taking money from their parents' estates. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III allege that Dexter King took "substantial funds" out of Coretta Scott King's estate and "wrongfully appropriated" money from their father's estate. The suit, filed Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court, serves as a very public fissure in an iconic family that has always professed unity, particularly as questions have swirled around some of their financial dealings. In a written statement Friday, Dexter King called the suit "inappropriate and false." "I'm...

Politics is history in the present tense. And perhaps never more than at this moment. Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination almost 40 years to the day after Robert F. Kennedy's assassination the night he won the California primary. RFK died on June 6th, 1968. And he will accept his party's nomination on another fateful day - the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This coincidence of the calendar underscores the way in which Obama's candidacy symbolizes a step toward resolution of the shattered dreams of mid-1960s moderate liberalism....

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 S's: 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...

Left-Wing Racism Remembered   By Floyd and Mary Beth BrownFrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 19, 2008 Did you know…Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican? Every civil rights law, beginning in the 1860s through the 1950s and 1960s, was fought against by Democrats? Or the KKK had links to the Democratic Party? Not only are these questions addressed by the National Black Republicans Association (NBRA), but also more surprising facts. A few months ago, we had the privilege to meet the chairwoman of NBRA, a brave and gusty woman named Frances Rice. “The double standard looms large when Democrats practice...

Earlier this month, at a Los Angeles event for the national African-American fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, the keynote speaker launched into an anti-Semitic tirade – directed at the fraternity’s guest of honor. The shocking episode shows just how far we’ve strayed from the original vision of the civil rights movement – and how far we have yet to travel to realize that vision. The guest of honor, Daphna Ziman, an Israeli-American woman, had just received the Tom Bradley Award for generous philanthropy and public service. But instead of praise, the Rev. Eric Lee berated her. “The Jews,” he claimed, “have...

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Martin would have been repelled by Mr. Lee's remarks. I was his lawyer and one of his closest advisers, and I can say with absolute certainty that Martin abhorred anti-Semitism in all its forms, including anti-Zionism. "There isn't anyone in this country more likely to understand our struggle than Jews," Martin told me. "Whatever progress we've made so far as a people, their support has been essential." Martin was disheartened that so many blacks could be swayed by Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and other black separatists, rejecting his message of nonviolence, and grumbling about "Jew landlords" and "Jew interlopers"...

Pop culture asks, “What would Jesus do?” Regarding today's NAACP, I ask, “What would MLK do?” With catastrophic school dropout rates among blacks, the NAACP has chosen to defend black youths wearing their pants low with their underwear showing. The racist and America hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright will be the keynote speaker for the 2008 NAACP Detroit branch's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. The NAACP supports gay marriage. Despite the fact that Black women are three times more likely than white women to have an abortion and 1452 black children are aborted every day, the NAACP supports abortion....

The White House welcoming ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI to America was truly inspiring. The U.S. Army band and chorus performed an amazing rendition of the Battle Hyman of the Republic. The Pope spoke about the greatness of America. On Sunday I was the emcee at Springfest, a family fun festival in Deltona, Florida. Deltona is the fulfillment of MLK's dream where blacks, whites, Hispanics and others live and play together. Inspired by the tremendous celebration of God and country at the White House, I felt compelled to do the same at Springfest. I asked the Sheriff's dept. motorcycle officers...

ATLANTA, April 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today said that racism and abortion are linked. Dr. King has, for the past two weeks been involved in commemorative events of the 40th anniversary of the death of her uncle Martin Luther King Jr. the famed leader of the civil rights movement. "Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error," stated Dr. King. "The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person...

When Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, I was 19 years old and fancifully considered myself to be far to the left of him. Notwithstanding that, he felt to me like one of my moral elders and tutors (as he still does). When I was first asked to sign a petition to make his birthday a national holiday, on a Manhattan side street in 1970, I was 21 and signed with pride. When, in 1983, President Ronald Reagan finally signed also, authorizing the bill for the King holiday, I was humbled to think of how far along I was in...

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust...

Los Angeles -- Two people were murdered in Los Angeles during the first 18 hours of a 40-hour symbolic "murder moratorium" to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., police said.

Friday marks 40 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Loraine Motel in Memphis. Claiming King as a member, the Tennessee Republican Party is honoring him. A release released by the state GOP Party states, in part, "Growing up in a republican household, Martin Luther King Jr. embraced the bedrock republican ideals of liberty and justice for all." Republican Party Chair Robin Smith added, "Dr. King... and his fellow republicans passed civil rights legislation over the objection of many democrats of that era." Some area democrats are angered...

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was the guest of honor Friday at a Los Angeles mosque. But it was the spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that held the crowd. "King was a leader who gave his life working for justice," said Muzammil H. Siddiqi, religious director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, in his sermon during Jumah, the weekly prayer service. "He stood for freedom, justice and equality among all. These are principles that we have to talk about as often as possible." Villaraigosa and his daughter Natalia attended the services on the 40th anniversary of the assassination...

There was a big problem with Barack’s mea culpa speech in Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White. He failed to mention that over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery. He didn’t mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded the Republican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those who had been in bondage. And when he does mention the 3/5ths clause in the Constitution, he totally got it wrong, the way most Americans do. News flash...it was the abolitionists who insisted on it so that...

Her voice quavering, Hillary Clinton spoke from the same church Friday where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. announced 40 years ago - on the night before he was killed - that he'd been to the mountaintop and seen the glory. Recalling hearing of King's assassination, Clinton, in college at the time, said: "I walked into my dorm room and took my book bag and hurled it across the room." Her voice breaking, she told the crowd at Memphis' Mason Temple, "It felt like everything had been shattered, and we'd never be able to put the pieces together again." It...

"go home and get your guns"-Stokely Carmichael April 4,1968 in Washington D.C. I had a habit of sitting in the kitchen and eating my breakfast while the radio was turned on to the morning news. The morning of Friday April 5th, 1968 I heard the account of a radio reporter (from UPI) who hid under a car while mobs rioted in the street around him. He sounded scared and he had reason to as rioting broke out in the nation's captial following the assassination of Martin Luther King late on the evening or April 4th and early on the morning...

This is the first time that Hillary said she actually met Martin Luther King. In 1962, when she was 14! But wait, didn't she see King speak on a "cold January night in 1963" as she said in her Selma Speech? This will be a major story. Will it turn FactChecker into FactChucker? She didn't even mention meeting King in her book. Even Reverend Don Jones, who supposedly took Hillary's youth group to see King, has had trouble remembering the meeting. Jones seems to be the only other human being besides Hillary to witness the event, even though by Hillary's...

The crowd booed Friday morning as Senator John McCain was introduced and stood just below the wreath where an assassin's bullet killed Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior 40 years ago.

Memphis, TN (LifeNews.com) -- As Americans honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the fortieth anniversary of his assassination, his niece says abortion has become the civil rights cause of today. Dr. Alveda King , who has suffered from multiple abortions, says the destruction of human life is on par with the lack of civil rights of her uncle's generation. In a speech at a church in downtown Memphis, King noted how her uncle was killed on this day in 1968. But a short five years later the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to unlimited abortions in...

Thousands Flock to Memphis to Reflect on King’s Legacy by Jamal E. Watson MEMPHIS — After their four-hour meeting concluded on the afternoon of April 4, 1968, Jesse Epps extended a dinner invitation to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had arrived in Memphis with other civil rights leaders to rally on behalf of the city’s striking Black sanitation workers. King politely declined the invitation. He had already agreed to dine at the home of Samuel “Billy” Kyles, a local Memphis preacher, who arrived at the Lorraine Hotel shortly before six that evening to pick him up. “I...

Hilary Clinton and John McCain were both heading to Memphis today to mark the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination. It is 40 years to the day since the civil rights leader, whose iconic "I have a dream" speech captivated 200,000 civil activists and the world back in 1963, was gunned down. Both presidential hopefuls are desperate to build bridges with black voters and are travelling to Memphis especially to join thousands gathering to remember his legacy. A clearly confident Barack Obama, who would be the first African American U.S. president if he is elected, has not travelled to...

20th century is the problem of the color line." Race, predominantly relations between blacks and whites in America, has been the most pervasive and divisive theme in the history of our country.

Near the end of his life, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. felt cornered and under siege. His opposition to the Vietnam War was widely criticized, even by friends. He was being pressured both to repudiate the black power movement and to embrace it. Some of his lieutenants were urging him to jettison his urgent new campaign to uplift the poor, believing that King had taken on too much and was compromising support for the civil rights struggle.

James Earl Ray's brother claims federal government killed Martin Luther King The dust has never settled since the shots that killed Martin Luther King Jr. were fired, as conspiracy theories continue to swirl around his assassination 40 years later. For years, John Larry Ray has tried to reveal what he says is an uncovered page in history about his older brother's role in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He always has contended James Earl Ray was a government "patsy," the fall guy for a sophisticated government plot. In his book "Truth At Last," released today, Ray says...

The National Black Republican Association is promoting its nationwide educational campaign by erecting a billboard announcing “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.” ........The billboard is located at a busy intersection … and it is attracting a lot of attention,” said NBRA Chairman Frances Rice in a statement. “We welcome the opportunity to explain why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican....Of interest is the fact that Orangeburg is the hometown of black Democrat Jim Clyburn who is the majority whip for the U.S. House of Representatives. We hope he appreciates our informing his black constituents about their civil...

A truly sickening site is the bending and twisting God’s word and a man’s morals to fit a political agenda. Yet it happens time and time again and in the center often stands the memory of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. During the South Carolina primary, Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did so on a national stage. The Obama camp supporters accused Hillary Clinton of diminishing King’s roll in Civil Rights. Camp Hillary supporters accused the Obama camp of trying to unjustly flare racial tensions in order to obtain a vote.

The Clinton campaign website now has two different dates that Hillary saw Dr. King: The campaign has scheduled an event with Don Jones who they now say "was Hillary's youth minister and first took Hillary to hear Dr. Martin Luther King speak in 1961". (Hillary would have been 13 at the time) At the speech she gave in Selma, she said she saw him "on a cold January night" in 1963, when Mrs. Clinton was 15. And two weeks ago she told Tim Russert "I was 14 years old when I heard Dr. King speak in person". That would have...

Would King choose Clinton, Edwards, or Obama? Or would he have chosen McCain, Romney, or Huckabee? Naturally King would not have endorsed any candidate, although many candidates seemingly acknowledged or endorsed him. Yet he undoubtedly would have had an opinion about where the nation is going. Before we attempt to answer the hypothetical question about his vote, let’s look at where we are in history. King’s choice of a leader would be affected by how he viewed the needs of the culture. If he were here today, King would understand that the black church once again needs to be a...

Witnesses have come forward to say they remember seeing Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s father marching together in 1963, Politico reported, after questions were raised about whether such a march ever happened. The issue drew attention after Romney said during a major speech on faith in College Station, Texas, earlier this month that “I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Roe v. Wade celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary on Tuesday, but prominent African-American leaders say the black community isn't ready to party. That's because abortion has affected black Americans in disproportionate numbers as more blacks have abortions and more abortion business are in historically black neighborhoods. Day Gardner, the head of the National Black Pro-Life Union, tells LifeNews.com that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been a strong pro-life advocate were he alive today."I believe if Dr. King were alive today, he would not rest until every unborn child was granted his or her basic right...

Last March, in a major civil rights speech in Selma, Alabama, Mrs. Clinton recalled that she went to hear Martin Luther King “on a cold January night” in 1963. She would have been 15 or 16 years old at the time. Carl Bernstein’s 2007 book places Hillary at a King speech in the fall of 1961. A December 2007 Washington Post article said it was “on a Sunday night in 1962”. A book by NYT journalist Don Van Natta Jr. says Hillary was 17 years old when she went to see King, which would have been in 1964 or 1965....

As America prepares to celebrate Martin Luther King Day next week, black presidential candidate Barack Obama stands in a strong position to become the country's 44th president. Some view Obama's remarkable popularity as the realisation of King's dream, the final victory of the civil rights movement. Others view it, their respect for Obama notwithstanding, as a testament to its remarkable failure. Both the aims and the character of the civil rights movement were flawed. One aim was clearly desegregration. But the movement should never have been about integration. It should have been about demanding the respect that is due to...

Romney: Who Let the Dogs Out? by Shushannah Walshe Jacksonville, FL Governor Romney paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. when speaking to a group of employees at Gate Petroleum today and then shook hands and posed for photos with African-American families at a parade. The presidential hopeful met a friendly crowd at the Martin Luther King, Jr. parade here. The former Massachusetts governor often runs back and forth across streets during parades to greet people and today was no exception. He shook hands with ROTC members, tiny beauty queens, police officers and many parade-goers, including children screaming his name....

BILL HAS A 'DREAM' EX PREZ NODS OFF DURING MLK AWARD PRESENTATION Post Staff Report I guess my comments were rejected because I criticized Republicans. I should have known. This is the NY Post after all... posted by JamekaClick here to commentBill Clinton Has a 'Dream'Former president Clinton nodded off during the MLK awards presentation. January 21, 2008 -- Bill Clinton showed yesterday why he made it into the book "The Art of Napping." During an appearance at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem, the former president was caught nodding off. excerpt

Today being Martin Luther King Day the President and First Lady visited the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. and encourages fellow Americans to get involve in volunteer programs. MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

As Americans observe Martin Luther King Day today, I am reminded of the rich Christian tradition of activism in this country. For millions of Christians who have gone before us, activism was considered fruit of the faith. Not only was the civil-rights movement led by evangelical Christians like Dr. King, so too were campaigns for abolition and women’s suffrage heavily influenced by Christians expressing their faith. But for much of the twentieth century, Christians—especially white evangelicals—shied away from activism. Part of the reason is that from about the 1920s to the 1970s, many evangelical Christians simply withdrew from the public...

Looks like the First Black President could care less about all these speeches! Meanwhile, Hillary is all over shouting "Ich bin ein Negro!"....