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Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Houston
FOXNews.com ^ | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | unknown

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blackpanthers; king; martinlutherkingjr; mlk; newblackpantherparty; newblackpanthers; quanellx; ragingrepublicans; republicans
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This must put the liberals out there in a quandary.

Do you deface the sign like usual if its MLK they are putting graffiti on, even though it's a Republican backed sign?

1 posted on 07/14/2009 12:43:50 PM PDT by Abathar
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“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?


2 posted on 07/14/2009 12:46:03 PM PDT by jessduntno ("We have elected the King of the POst TUrtleS.")
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We were insulted

It was not about you or directed to you, Mr. X.

3 posted on 07/14/2009 12:46:16 PM PDT by doodad
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“has stirred a religious and political hornets’ nest”

Good!!


4 posted on 07/14/2009 12:46:26 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Abathar

5 posted on 07/14/2009 12:47:44 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

Truth hurts.


6 posted on 07/14/2009 12:48:42 PM PDT by Califreak (Dissident under duress)
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7 posted on 07/14/2009 12:49:19 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Abathar

I would think he would have to be a Republican since he would have likely been barred from voting in Democrat primaries.


8 posted on 07/14/2009 12:49:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (we also have the duty to avoid prostituting our Catholic identity by appeals to phony dialogue)
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To: jessduntno

Right - this is all before Jesse Jackson became a race warlord of the Left.


9 posted on 07/14/2009 12:50:14 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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Wow, it upsets them? Maybe they ought to work for a law to ban that kind of speech.

I mean, after all, the Constitution means nothing to liberals...we've known that for years.

10 posted on 07/14/2009 12:50:18 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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My, that Mr. Quannel Exlax gentleman certainly gets around. Last time he made national news he was getting run out of Sugarland by supportters of the Bitter Clinger Joe Horn.

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!

11 posted on 07/14/2009 12:50:26 PM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Buy Lots Of Ammo Today: BLOAT)
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That has GOT to be photoshopped, tell me that isn’t real.


12 posted on 07/14/2009 12:50:44 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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the truth shall set you free.


13 posted on 07/14/2009 12:51:39 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: Abathar

Wouldn’t want to “politicize” that King legacy...unless you pay his family.


14 posted on 07/14/2009 12:52:26 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Abathar

I’m gonna go post that over on Wikipedia right now.


15 posted on 07/14/2009 12:52:33 PM PDT by JohnC2004
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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.


16 posted on 07/14/2009 12:52:42 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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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.
17 posted on 07/14/2009 12:52:46 PM PDT by ketsu (ItÂ’s not a campaign. ItÂ’s a taxpayer-funded farewell tour.)
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To: Deb

Funny how that does change things isn’t it?


18 posted on 07/14/2009 12:53:11 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: JohnC2004

LOL, yeah, it will stay up there for all of what, 5 seconds? :)


19 posted on 07/14/2009 12:53:55 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/mlkday.asp


20 posted on 07/14/2009 12:54:23 PM PDT by MarkeyD (OBAMA. Chains we can believe in!)
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