Why Martin Luther King Was a Republican

Human Events ^ | 08/16/2006 | Frances Rice

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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 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 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, 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 v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's . . . Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.

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 Sen. Al Gore Sr. . . .

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Well, I don’t know about him supporting the Vietcong. I know he definitely wasn’t supporting American efforts in Vietnam, that much is true but I don’t recall him specifically endorsing the Vietcong from my research. Just because one doesn’t support America during that time doesn’t automatically make them VC supporters. Even one of the Politically Incorrect Guides, either the one about the 1960s or the Vietnam War, made it pretty clear that, while a significant minority among the anti-war groups, there were indeed people in the anti-war movement who also didn’t tolerate communism and did not support it.

As far as anti-communism and strong national defense, well, he did write a piece called “Can a Christian be a Communist” that eviscerated Communism by stating it was irreconcilable with Christian thought and was atheistic in nature, and I heard that he’s apparently a strong advocate for the second amendment. I’m also pretty sure based on Aleida Scott King that he’s also very much anti-abortion as well, which definitely is a conservative view (I’m pretty sure if he were 100% leftist, he’d be backing abortion and singing praises for it, and his niece would either parrot the same, or otherwise state her support for the repeal of Roe v. Wade is to go against her uncle, and I’m definitely certain he wouldn’t have written that essay denouncing Communism as a godless charlatan mockery of Christianity.).