Posted on 05/23/2008 5:04:36 PM PDT by kingattax
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 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 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's.
During the civil rights era of the 1960's, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was President Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalblackrepublicans.com ...
While it is true that in the 19th century most blacks were Republican, I don’t think that in Luther King era blacks were still Republican. If I’m not mistaken, JFK won the African American vote overwhelmingly (70%).
The “African American” vote? Please. The horrible term hadn’t even been invented then.
I haven’t read the article, but my understanding is that MLK’s father was a Republican, but later switched to Democrat. During the 1960 election, when MLK was in jail, (then) candidate JFK helped to get him released, while candidate Nixon did nothing. This is why he switched.
There have been some prominent Republicans of the 60’s and 70’s. Jackie Robinson was a Republican. Sammy Davis Jr. campaigned for Nixon.
Perhaps you noticed that not once on that website article do they use the term “African American”. Neither should anybody else, especially conservatives. It makes my gorge rise just to hear the words spoken. Even a halfwit like Whoopie Goldberg knows that she is not an “African American”.
At a local restaurant a couple of young black guys were referring to themselves as “African American.” A retire black gentleman walked over and interrupted them to ask, “when was the last time you were in Africa?” His question was met with silence and bewilderment. He paid he bill and walked out. Obviously he was a proud American.
The Democrats who know their history point out that “the Democrats of the past are the Republicans of today”. That is, they know the facts well enough to distort them. It’s an utterly ridiculous argument, and leaves your head spinning as to what it really means. So Democrats were once conservatives and Republicans liberal socialists? They come up with these theories that Lincoln was gay and so on, I suppose just to make their case.
And yet, the black vote is overwhelmingly supportive of the party that continues to keep them in dependent submission.
doesn’t that put your brain on tilt ?
MOST.. Blacks, Jews, and increasingly whites have brain washed.. quite throughly now..
African-American: I refuse to use the ridiculous term. I’ve seen the nomenclature change from “Colored” to “Negro” to “Black” to “Afro-American”, and finally(?) to “African-American”.
Democrats were much more conservative than Republicans until the Taft/Coolidge era.
Everywhere we went people stared at us, well mainly at her, she was stunning.
I even introduced her to my family and friends in Louisiana...they were enthralled.
Of course, the fact that she had a gorgeous figure, spoke with a lovely accent, had platinum blond hair, dazzling blue eyes and flawless fair skin didn't hurt.
bttt
So what your saying is the black race has been duped by the slick liberal con artists into a life of dependency.
I have played for wedding parties of Africans. The same kind that you speak of. They came from Capetown. I suppose if the moved here to the US, they would then be “African Americans”?
This has been debunked repeatedly, and this article has been posted half a dozen times or more. MLK, Jr. was NOT a Republican, at least not after the crucial period just prior to the 1960 Presidential election and until his death. He called Conservative Republicans like Goldwater tools for the racists.
Debunked here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919430/posts
...and when it was later reposted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1957006/posts
LOL!
Which post # are we to look at in your links?
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