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GOP group's campaign ad says Democrats started KKK
cnn.com ^ | 22 September 2006

Posted on 09/21/2006 6:07:24 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) -- A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the black Republican nominee for Maryland's open Senate seat, disavowed the ad Thursday as "insulting to Marylanders." He said his campaign asked the Washington-based National Black Republican Association to stop running it.

At an event in Baltimore, Steele said, "I don't know exactly what the intent of the ad was" but that "it's not helpful to the public discourse."

The ad does not mention Steele or his Democratic opponent, Rep. Ben Cardin.

The association's president, Frances Rice, did not return calls for comment. The group, founded a year ago, promotes the Republicans to black voters.

The spot begins with one woman telling another, "Dr. King was a real man. You know he was a Republican."

Steve Klein, a senior researcher with the Atlanta-based King Center, said Thursday that King never endorsed candidates from either party.

"I think it's highly inaccurate to say he was a Republican because there's really no evidence," Klein said.

A King biographer, Taylor Branch, also said Thursday that King was nonpartisan.

In the ad, the woman goes on to say, "Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan." Her companion replies, "The Klan? White hoods and sheets?"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: alltrue; gop; kkk; maryland; mdm; michaelsteele; rats; theydid
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To: annelizly
While somewhat less impressive Hiram Fong was the first Asian American to try to get the presidential nomination and he was republican.

Sure its not that big of a deal but its still better than democrats.
21 posted on 09/21/2006 6:26:28 PM PDT by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: annelizly
This part, at least, is not true:

" During the war, against the advice of his cabinet, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves. "

Read the document.

22 posted on 09/21/2006 6:26:47 PM PDT by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: escapefromboston

"Wouldn't MLK be registered as either a republican or Democrat? It seems like that would be public record."

See my post # 20. I don't think the republican party had been firmly established in Mississippi,Alabama and much of the south at that time.


23 posted on 09/21/2006 6:28:53 PM PDT by penelopesire
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To: Aussie Dasher

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.


24 posted on 09/21/2006 6:29:37 PM PDT by paudio (Universal Human Rights and Multiculturalism: Liberals want to have cake and eat it too!)
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To: Aussie Dasher
The book, "North and South", gives an interesting description of politics during the cival war.

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.

25 posted on 09/21/2006 6:29:59 PM PDT by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

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).


26 posted on 09/21/2006 6:30:15 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: Aussie Dasher

It's histroically accurate.

Don't know how it'll play though....without seeing the ad...


27 posted on 09/21/2006 6:30:41 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: Aussie Dasher

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.


28 posted on 09/21/2006 6:31:03 PM PDT by marron
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To: Aussie Dasher
Why would Martin Luther King, Jr. NOT be a member of the party of Lincoln?

The Dems do not want to empower blacks, they want to keep them down and dependent on the government.
29 posted on 09/21/2006 6:31:22 PM PDT by msnimje (Seriously, if it REALLY were a religion of PEACE, would they have to label it as such?)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Of course, there is a story out there saying that President Kennedy's administration was actually wiretapping MLK because they saw him as a threat, and not because people might've thought he was a communist....


30 posted on 09/21/2006 6:32:13 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: Aussie Dasher

The KKK was started by Democrats....ask Senator Byrd, he was there at the first meeting I believe.


31 posted on 09/21/2006 6:33:14 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Bookmark!


32 posted on 09/21/2006 6:33:16 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Aussie Dasher
Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the black Republican nominee for Maryland's open Senate seat, disavowed the ad Thursday as "insulting to Marylanders." He said his campaign asked the Washington-based National Black Republican Association to stop running it.

Bad move, Mr. Steele.

You should have just issued a "no comment" about it.

The dam is breaking. Blacks realize that they've been had by the Rats and the historical truth is starting to emerge.

Republicans simply need to fight fire with fire.

33 posted on 09/21/2006 6:33:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: loreldan
...but I don't think MLK was a Republican.

Of course he was, that's why Bobby Kennedy bugged his bedroom.

34 posted on 09/21/2006 6:34:25 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: Doctor Raoul
he was there at the first meeting I believe

ROFL

35 posted on 09/21/2006 6:36:35 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: usmcobra

Iron Brigade ping.


36 posted on 09/21/2006 6:36:56 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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To: BenLurkin

Placemarker for the racist, white supremacist, and segragationist from W.Va.


37 posted on 09/21/2006 6:37:04 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you attack Americans, we'll defend your right to do it."- The Democrat Party)
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To: Aussie Dasher

"A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers."

It would not be a surprise at all, if Dr. King registered Republican.

Back in those days, most opposition to civil rights came from southern democrats.

I recall that the Rebups. gave more support in Congress to passage of civil rights bills, than democrats.

So why wouldn't Dr. King register with the party which helped them prevail with their efforts?


38 posted on 09/21/2006 6:38:20 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: patton

Correct. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the Confederate slave states.


39 posted on 09/21/2006 6:39:13 PM PDT by Bi-ped Carbon Unit ("...Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second guessing is not a strategy." GWB)
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To: patton

"No one's hands are clean."

You got that right. I am wondering why we are focusing on the civil war though. I thought we were discussing the evolution of the republican party during King's era?....lol


40 posted on 09/21/2006 6:40:10 PM PDT by penelopesire
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