[mnehring]

Interesting facts. DUmbass lurkers will want to put their fingers in their ears and yell La La La La...

[twigs]

Bill Bennett does a good in his new book "America: The Last Great Hope" of pointing this out and every difference he can think of between the two parties whenever he can.

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[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King."

Just goes to show you, form is more important than substance. I remember reading that when LBJ was president, he was touring some homes somewhere south (might have been texas) and he was explaining to the homeowners what all he was doing for them with the Great Society legislation. And as he turned to leave and thank them for their time, on the wall of the home there was a photo of Jesus Christ and John Kennedy, and it burned him up.

[cotton1706]

He was a Republican. Had Nixon called him when he was arrested, all the blacks would have voted for Nixon and he would have won. Kennedy did call him, so King advised all his supporters to vote for Kennedy. Nixon had a great civil rights record. The democrats were a disgrace.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King."

Oops, slight modification:

Just goes to show you, form is more important than substance. I remember reading that when LBJ was president, he was touring some homes somewhere south (might have been texas) and he was explaining to the "black" homeowners what all he was doing for them with the Great Society legislation. And as he turned to leave and thank them for their time, on the wall of the home there was a photo of Jesus Christ and John Kennedy, and it burned him up.

[since 1854]

As I point out in my book, Back to Basics for the Republican Party, MLK told Vice President Nixon publicly that he had voted Republican in 1956, but after not voting in 1960 he actually campaigned for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So, calling MLK a Republican is misleading. See http://www.republicanbasics.com for more information.

[Xenalyte]

How could he be a Republican? He was a Communist.

[bubman]

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[Arcy]

"It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws."

A fact that isn't touted enough to the dumb masses. Bush should state large portions of this during his next State of the Union address.

[Old Grumpy]

VERY enlightening article.

[seasoned traditionalist]

Today, some of those “Dixiecrats” continue their political careers as Democrats, including Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who is well known for having been a “Keagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.

Just so happens, I have a copy of Byrd's driver's license which I thought one and all should see.

I know this, and many others do, (and going on 63, I lived thru the civil rights movement) but what I don't know and maybe I missed it in this article was how the Rats managed to hijack the black vote from the Republicans and however this was done (and again, I missed this throughout the 60's and beyond, probably being too busy serving in Nam and thereafter, being so turned off to anything politic that I tuned it ALL out) it was a sleight of hand and masterful stroke of political genius, with those responsible for pulling this off, worthy of receiving the Joseph Goebbels Propaganda Of the Century Award.

One does not have to wonder very hard as to how the revisionist has turned these facts on their heads and how none of this is being taught today in our schools--especially, not in any inner city or areas heavily populated by minorities.

[cvq3842]

Dr. King also had no problem whatsoever using the moral authority he felt by virtue of his religious faith to change the law in this country, to everyone's benefit.

That also drives the liberals nuts.

[11th Commandment]

Bernie Goldberg put this the best. The democrats and a few black leaders got together and took the Civil Rights movement, admittedly, one of the greatest "moral" movements of the US in the 20th century, and turned it into a political movement.

All these points mentioned above don't matter because the moral cause is lost and politics is what is left. That is why a guy like the Rev Jesse Jackson, who understands what the moral history of abortion is about, turns a blind eye to the abortion crowed in the democractic party. If he championed life causes, the democrats would cut him off.

[Fatuncle]

Interesting facts. DUmbass lurkers will want to put their fingers in their ears and yell La La La La...

I have always been amazed at how someone with their head up their ass can still reach their ears.

[gcruse]

The dog in this artice that didn't bark is when blacks switched to the democrats and why they have been so eager to support that party against the interest of black advancement.

[VOA]

Now here are a load of facts and unrevised history you won't see on TV.
Or be taught in public schools.
And even some elite private schools.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Problem is that some of what is in this article is not entirely accurate. First of all, by the 1940s-50s, most Northern Blacks were Democrats (and some were drawn to radical Communist "Progressives" of the Henry Wallace/Paul Robeson vintage, of whom were the most vocal about Civil Rights), and had been that way since about midway through FDR's 1st term (Both Northern and Southern Blacks had stayed with Hoover in 1932, but began to shift following the 1934 defeat of the lone Black Republican in Congress, Chicago's Oscar Stanton DePriest, by a Black Democrat, Arthur Wergs Mitchell - the first ever elected to federal office). Another reason was due to the Democrat-run political machines in northern cities. If you were poor and Black, to align yourself with a minority party that was out of power meant you'd have little to gain (ironically, if that mindset were in place today, Blacks would be substantially Republican).

Southern Blacks, what few could vote, voted almost polar opposite to their Northern counterparts in support of Republicans, and did so all the way up until the 1960s (in my state of Tennessee, Black voters were part of a bloc that helped deliver the state to Nixon over JFK in 1960). The King family, of course, were Republicans because it was almost unthinkable for a Southern Black to be a Democrat up until that point. Unfortunately, once Southern Blacks started to register to vote in larger numbers, they almost uniformaly went to the Democrats.

Most puzzling was the comment about the March on Washington event organizer, Asa Philip Randolph being described as a "Black Republican." Randolph and his wife, Lucille, had been active in extreme left and labor politics and both had been Congressional candidates for the Socialist Party in 1924. If Randolph was a Republican, it would've been of the extremely left wing vintage. The NY GOP was vastly different in those days, even having candidates, such as Vito Marcantonio, whom eventually left to be the highest-profile American Labor Party member of Congress, was a Stalinist.

An interesting article, but not entirely well-researched.

[Froufrou]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200610/NAT20061002a.html

There's an ad getting some air time and making folks unhappy.

[GOPJ]

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