Posted on 07/14/2009 12:43:50 PM PDT by Abathar
Who knew?
A billboard proclaiming that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political hornets' nest in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the Republican Party.
The jumbo-sized roadside ad made its contentious claim for about a week -- until a local black activist charged that the sign unjustly politicized King's legacy and was hurting his community by telling a "blatant lie."
"Martin Luther King may have very well believed in some of the Christian principles of the Republican Party, but Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican or a Democrat," said Quanell X, who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston.
"Dr. King was bigger than a political party -- he was a humanitarian, and so to attach him exclusively to any party is to devalue his humanitarian global status," he said. "We were insulted ... by the billboard because it was a blatant lie."
King held great sway over black voters and carefully courted both Republicans and Democrats. He never officially endorsed a party or candidate.
But the founder of RagingRepublicans.org, the black conservative group that sponsored the sign, told FOXNews.com that the sign was designed to get blacks to rethink their political affiliation -- about 95 percent of blacks voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential elections -- and that this is just the beginning. He said a radio campaign that focuses on "the destructive nature of liberalism" is forthcoming.
"We think it's imperative that [the GOP] try and attract more people from the communities of color to vote their values -- to vote conservative," said Claver Kamau-Imani, who heads the Corinthian Christian Empowerment Church, a small house church in Houston.
What's more, he said, the sign is accurate.
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Do you deface the sign like usual if its MLK they are putting graffiti on, even though it's a Republican backed sign?
“A billboard proclaiming that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political hornets’ nest in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the Republican Party.”
Why would he have been a Democrat? Who do these idiots think he was fighting all those years?
It was not about you or directed to you, Mr. X.
“has stirred a religious and political hornets’ nest”
Good!!
Truth hurts.
I would think he would have to be a Republican since he would have likely been barred from voting in Democrat primaries.
Right - this is all before Jesse Jackson became a race warlord of the Left.
I mean, after all, the Constitution means nothing to liberals...we've known that for years.
Anyway, he is in need of another symbolic beatdown. His brand of hatred gets few supporters around these parts anyways.
Big secret: although he is all things black pride, he is in fact married to an asian woman and tries to hide that fact. You heard it here first.
Hypocrite!
That has GOT to be photoshopped, tell me that isn’t real.
the truth shall set you free.
Wouldn’t want to “politicize” that King legacy...unless you pay his family.
I’m gonna go post that over on Wikipedia right now.
I honestly don’t think Martin Luther King is relevant to the New Blacks of 2009. Martin Luther King wanted the melting pot, mixing and sharing. Modern blacks enjoy being in their own Caucus, and listening to their on Black Entertainment TV. I remember going to Atlanta and being the only lighter person there, and people looked at me strangely like WHAT WAS I DOING THERE. MLK and his ideas are past tense.
Why would he have been a Democrat? Who do these idiots think he was fighting all those years?People forget political parties are fluid. King was a major leftist, moving from civil rights to union and anti-vietnam activism. The union activism was what got him killed.
Funny how that does change things isn’t it?
LOL, yeah, it will stay up there for all of what, 5 seconds? :)
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