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"What we honor MLK for was the work he did in the Civil Rights Movement while he was a Republican."

Since he wasn't, when was that exactly ? You keep repeating that falsehood ad infinitum.

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The stupidity here is defeating ..

Greetings ....so much snow after such a warm start

Strange huh ....this last one pounded southwest Williamson

I lived in the Jim Crow South - whites were democrats. Conservative whites from the north were Republican until they figured out that NO REPUBLICAN HAD A SNOW BALL'S CHANCE IN HELL OF WINNING. Then they became democrats to vote against the worst of the democrats. And blacks?

They were Republicans.

After democrats/elites moved into the civil rights movement King moved toward socialism and the larger movement switched from non-violent to violent. 1963 was the year democrats stated glorifying their criminals. 1964 was the year the 'in crowd' dubbed King an Uncle Tom.

King used Gandhi's strategy. Which included getting arrested. King's movement almost died in Albany Georgia when the Sheriff - rather than playing into King's hand's - read some books on nonviolence and told his people NOT to arrest King or any of King's people. Luckily for King - one deputy didn't get the word - King was arrested and when released he quickly moved on to the next city.

The way the glorification of criminals happened was people like Dick Gregory would travel with King - getting arrested as an ethical non-violent act of civil disobedience - and would use that fact on leaflets to rally 'the troops'. Late '63 was the first time I saw common criminals putting their arrest 'bonifides' on a handout. They didn't understand robbing a store was not the same as an intentional act of ethical civil disobedience...

Since democrats in the South were the party of segregation and the KKK and white citizens councils it's hard to believe King would have started his movement as a democrat. Or that people in his Church or movement would be democrats...