“While I happen to be a Democrat, I think it’s important for African-Americans to be Republicans,” Martin Luther King III said on MSNBC’s “The Cycle,” earlier today. “I think it’s important for African-Americans to be independent. Uh, I’ll say this kinda — I also think it’s important to be engaged with the tea party, he continued.” Co-host Touré then asked the son of famed civil rights advocate Martin Luther King Jr. if he thinks “the modern Democratic Party does enough to earn the overwhelming support that it gets for black people? Is it taking black people for granted in a...
