Posted on 01/19/2009 12:37:49 PM PST by Natural Law
Let us not forget and commit to not letting the world forget that Martin Luther King was a Republican, and for all of the right reasons. He was a Republican because Republicanism assured him and his cause the individual rights and freedom from the tyranny of the majority promised by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
When was the last time you heard a public leader, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, refer to the United States as a Republic? It is critical that we require our leaders to openly state this because our individual freedoms and liberties, and our future as a free nation are vested in Republicanism.
Whether the result of a vast left wing conspiracy or collective ignorance there has been a gross deception perpetrated on the American people. Many who have been most vocal regarding the retention or expansion of their rights have willingly subordinated their individual rights to those of a majority. As Georges Clemenceau stated; “ A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne" nor is it any less cruel and ruthless. Democracy is a lynch mob looking for its next victim.
There has never been a democracy in the history of the world that did not have a permanently oppressed minority as the slaves of Athens, the Catholics and Puritans of Elizabethan England, and the gentry of post revolution France can attest.
America has not been immune from these transgressions. Many of the civil rights tragedies of American history can trace themselves directly to the deficiencies of Democracy. Andrew Jackson, the first Democrat president, was responsible for the codification and implementation of the our ethnic cleansing policy known as the Indian Removal Act. The Trail of Tears is only one example of the will of the majority has affected the rights of minorities.
The next Democrat president was Polk. Among his notable actions was the initiation and prosecution of the Mexican American War which resulted in the acquisition of 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory that Mexico had earlier refused to sell the US. President Grant in his memoirs said of the war; “For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.” It did, however satisfy the demands of a majority at the expense of a majority.
The continuation of Slavery until the 13th amendment, the American Civil War, the horrors of the Reconstruction period, the Income tax, Japanese American internment, Jim Crow laws, were all the result of majority rule Democrat administrations.
Looking ahead to the Obama administration one can only wonder at the individual rights abuses that will be imposed on the American populace in the name of the majority and the greater good. The list will be longer and Martin Luther King will be that much further from the realization of his dreams.
Obomber is trying to co-opt Lincoln...THE Republican...
Lincoln was, too. Hasn’t stopped whatshisname from making some pretty ridiculous claims.
Do any of you have a link to a reputable source showing that King was a Republican? I have read most of his works and don’t recall any place where he said that he was a Republican directly.
He may have voted Republican to avoid voting for racist Dems. Is that all we have?
“Martin Luther King was a Republican”
Now THAT is something you’ll hardly ever hear these days.
It is atrocious how the Democratic Party has used many of the black population for their own gain. They’ve encouraged abortions in their communities and given them handouts to keep them in poverty. It is despicable! And then, they have the audacity to tell them that if they don’t vote Democrat, they are “betraying their race.”
Funny, how the Republican Party was the one who originally freed them from slavery and it was the Republicans who originally fought for their rights. Now, the Democrats have anointed themselves as the “party of the minorities,” and have been re-writing history to fit their ideology.
I think MLK would be appalled at what Obama stands for and at what has been happening to the black population.
And his granddaughter believes that the civil rights struggle won’t be over until abortion is outlawed.
Check this out:
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why+MLK+was+a+Republican
The important thing in the postiong is Republicanism, not MLK.
I love listening to the likes of John Lewis (D-GA) and the Race Hustlers spin this wonderful fact out of control...
All great black people in American history Republican. To think that MLK would even be allowed to register in the political party that didn't want him to vote, lynched blacks, sicced dogs on him and wouldn't permit him to drink from the same water faucets as they used is preposterous.
MLK = GOP
How many times has this been debunked ? He supported big government and Democrat Presidential candidates from 1960 onwards.
Debunked.
It is not disputed that Martin Luther King embraced the principles of Republicanism, that is individual rights over majority rule.
Name a Republican presidential nominee he voted for after Eisenhower.
Republicanism is not vested only in the office of the President or in the GOP.
I don’t think a lot of FReepers, or most folks in general, have a clue as to his true political ideology. Had he not been martyred, which was his wish, he’d have been standing arm-in-arm with the far-left race-baiting hucksters of today. He led his own people into the bondage of big government, a fate for which even the most rabid White Supremacist couldn’t have dreamed of for the sheer destructiveness to the Black family & culture.
Unless you consider the wholehearted embrace of Socialism to be a principle we should admire, and to associate it with Republicans, I am very concerned about. Sadly, the more I learned about the man, the less attractive a person and leader he appeared to be.
He would’ve been eligible to vote beginning in 1950 when he turned 21. I haven’t been able to pin down if he himself ever cast a vote for Eisenhower, or if he indeed voted for Stevenson in ‘52 & ‘56. His father was a self-declared Republican, as the majority of Southern Blacks were until the 1960s, but he switched from Nixon to JFK during the election season and never went back. Even supported the race-baiting Jimmy Carter (who openly ran as a race-baiter in the 1970 Democrat primary, mocking ex-Gov. Carl Sanders, his opponent, for “shaking hands” with Black basketball players. Sanders was a racial moderate). It’s very hard to give these folks any credibility when they put the narcotic of Socialist big government ahead of rejecting racist, anti-Semite politicians like Carter.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, we can only deal with the image and civil rights icon created over the last 40 years. My post was not about MLK, but about recapturing the issue of individual rights, as opposed to majority rule democracy, as the keystone and definition of Republicanism.
It’s the imagery that has raised him to Sainthood status, for which he is not deserving of, that needs to be closely scrutinized. I think his entire record needs to be revisited to see him for the man that he was, someone seeking celebrity status and the limelight, someone who put all of that ahead of family. In his zeal to seek martyrdom, he inflicted profound damage upon his own children, none of whom have apparently been able to recover from (none of his adult children have even been able to have families of their own, a very sad spectacle). I think it is even wrong to have a national holiday named for him, especially when we ignore untold numbers of people that made very real contributions themselves, without the hypocrisy and destructiveness of this individual.
The imagery is what it is. Even if you could muster the resources to counter the layer upon layer of positive press and propaganda in the end it would only serve to make you and your fellow conservatives look mean spirited and racially biased. My course of action is to ride the horse we have been given and link MLK's dream to the principles of Republicanism and show the dangers of majority rule and of trusting the Democrats who promote it.
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