Posted on 11/01/2007 6:04:11 AM PDT by coffee260
I think millions of Americans would join you if they had access to those thousands of pages of FBI files that are locked up until 2027.
I don’t remember any exact quotes of Bill Clinton speaking about being inspired by Dr. King, but Dr. King had a “private life” that would certainly “inspire” Clinton’s.
Its the fact of the matter, we just don’t have all the details in the public domain.
Rev. Ralph Abernathy also spoke of MLK as “less than a saint” over this conduct. And Abernathy was his right-hand man.
The King family, Jesse Jackson et al went after Abernathy when he made those comments in an autobiography in the 1980’s.
Another piece of evidence we have in the public domain along with the FBI surveillance of MLK’s lawyer and Taylor Branch’s conversations with King associates about that “private life.”
The greatest mistake the Black community made was following the destructive Socialist mantras of DuBois, Marcus Garvey, etc., rather than the individualist mantras of GW Carver, Booker T. Washington, et al.
People forget that the Republican Party was pretty leftist in a lot of respects back in those days. In New York, people like Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsey were high-profile Republicans who weren’t conservative in any sense of the term.
The Democrats have plenty of “racist” past to expose.
But don’t glorify Dr. Martin Luther King other than as a catlyst for what eventually would become a flood of white voters to the GOP by the time Ronald Reagan ran for President.
RR signed off on the national holiday and praised King but it would have been nice if Reagan had thanked Dr. King for helping to make him president by starting the splitting of the Democrat Party into pieces.
The DemoPublican Party pretty much gave in to the ideas of the fascists (national socialists) in the 1930s - the welfare state, a planned economy, trade unionism and the use of the mass media and arts to propagandize for the state. It took von Hayek, Mises, Freidman and a number of others to create the intellectual basis for a return to sanity and classical liberalism (and I use this term very precisely) which form the core of modern conservative philosophy.
You are so right, what is this revisionist history? Everybody knows King became a Democrat officially after 1960. While this article has some obvious points, it’s misrepresenting King who supported Kennedy, Johnson, etc...
While it was Southern Democrats he was fighting, he was definitely a national Democrat. His dad stayed a Republican longer, and his dad had a lot of pull in the black community in the South. But King Jr. switched pretty earlier. This is all public knowledge.
King was even at the Democratic 1964 convention cutting deals with Johnson to keep the Ms Democratic Freedom Party off the ballot for more government intervention.
I expect a little more from Human Events.
That's been repeated time and time again over the last 60 years or more. Unfortunately, only ones that believe it are 35-40 percent of electorate. It is because of your personal responsibility, ownership and hard work, others learned that they can live free off of you.
In addition, King was supporting national Democrats before 1960. I think it was 60 that he officially switched over. Also, his dad stopped supporting Republicans in 60.
Yes, but they're more than that.
Much more.
They're the epitome of useful idiots and I would care, per se, either if their numbers weren't so large dwarfing a good sized army.
All that's really needed now for the hordes is for them to get solidly organized.
That ever happens and as we used to say in the military, "Give your soul to God".
...because your ass is *fini*.
Reagan was a Democrat until the early 60’s
You are right about that, although I heard that Nixon got fortyfive percent. Whatever.... in those days the GOP could count on a substantial portion of the black vote. Barry Goldwater drove millions more black voters in the Dem dungeon in 1964 when he rejected the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Naturally LBJ jumped on with both big feet insuring a landslide in the '64 election for the Donkeycrats.
The ironic thing that in later years Goldwater, who was not a racist, regretted his '64 stand. He had done it on principle, but it cost the GOP dearly then and in subsequent elections. Now the GOP is lucky to get ten percent of the black vote. A series of huge miscalculations by Republican "big thinkers" cost the party (and the country) dearly for many decades since.
This article apparently was from last year. We got into big trouble with some of our candidates repeating some of this stuff, which was obviously false. I find it unfortunate that the so much of the Civil Rights movement and MLK have been made into one in the same. MLK is NOT the Civil Rights movement. It was comprised of many, many people of differing ideologies (some collectivist, some individualist), many of whom gave their lives to the cause... not just a single man. The simplistic media (and historians) choose one ideological aspect linked specifically to MLK and the Democrat party and ignore everything else... and they also fail to ask the question, “Was the Black Community well served by what was accomplished ?” If they ask it, it is couched in the terms of Socialist goals and exclusively race-based solutions. Nobody has the courage to challenge convention and ask hard questions... or when they do, such as with the author of this piece, they get all the facts wrong and still fail to detach a flawed man from the movement itself and question where he was going in the post-1965 era after the main goal was accomplished of getting the CRA signed.
The long term effect of the Civil Rights Movement-MLK was to split the Democrat Party into two factions.
Lets give credit where it’s due
The GOP got the south white vote plus a lot of northern white working class votes that Ronald Reagan brought firmly into the GOP tent.
They all were the people who voted for George Wallace as a third party candidate in 1968.
The conservatives were not racist in 1964 but took their stands on constitutional grounds.
And by the way a moratorium on civil rights activities was announced in the summer of 1964 so that people would not be turned off and vote for Goldwater.
By 1966 the GOP was gaining ground in Congressional elections in reaction to LBJ’s Civil Rights-Great Soceity Agenda.
After Wallace took all those Dems third party in 68 and Nixon won there was the Nixon 1972 landslide.
Even with Watergate Ford almost beat Carter in 76.
Then came the great one to bring all those voters together for landlslides in 80 and 84.
Martin Luther King helped bring the GOP a winning coalition for many elections.
From what I read, Junior was largely “unaffiliated” prior to ‘60 (though his father was registered Republican). Although Northern Blacks had largely become Democrats by the mid ‘30s (partly due to FDR, and also due to the fact that many Northern cities were becoming controlled by Democrats, so in order to “get anywhere”, you had to become one), most Southern Blacks were still solidly Republican (although largely prevented from exercising their right to vote) until 1964. It was simply unthinkable for a Black person to be a Democrat in the South, for obvious reasons.
I’m not sure even if Goldwater had wholeheartedly endorsed the ‘64 CRA if that would’ve kept the dam from bursting. Blacks were demanding more and more government-based solutions to problems and becoming more radicalized in that stance. That was simply an abhorrant position to Goldwater and Conservatives. It had nothing to do with race, but it was made out to be, and the liberal Democrats exploited it to the hilt.
What Nixon wanted to do was position himself in between two extremist groups, between the far-left of the Democrats and the reactionary racists of Wallace, Mahoney of MD, etc. The media would later disingenuosuly portray it as an attempt to appeal to racist votes, which it wasn’t. He wanted to squeeze out and discredit both factions. Sammy Davis, Jr. knew full well what Nixon was trying to do when he endorsed him (and he had warmer feelings about Nixon’s position on Blacks & Civil Rights vs. JFK’s a dozen years earlier), but he got villified for doing so.
Goldwater had supported CRA’s in 1957 and 1962, but could not fully endorse the 1964 one.
Federal power over states went too far at this point.
The GOP didn't have to pander, but they took the black vote for granted. I maintain that if Goldwater had backed the '64 Civil Rights bill while objecting to some of its more pernicious segments, we would never have had Carter or Clinton elected president.
Federal power had gone on too far and too long since FDR (and in some instances, since Woodrow Wilson). LBJ was moving this entire nation towards a gigantic Socialist state. What he, and what FDR, got passed is going to ultimately bankrupt us in the near future if dramatic changes aren’t made soon. The GOP hasn’t stepped up when it had the chance to reign in these fiscal disasters.
Right. Also the write to vote was largely restricted on the basis of the percentage of blacks in a county. If it was 10% or less they were always allowed to vote.
Just confused on the purpose of saying King was a Republican. I would just stay true to the facts, and focus on how Republicans did more for Civil Rights, especially early on with Eisenhower’s judges.
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