Why MLK was Republican . . .

I have faith.

 

Well, it's good to have faith in something, I guess. Don't be too heartbroken if it doesn't happen, though.

 

Obama will probably get screwed over by the electoral votes like Gore did. Just way too many red states in The South and middle America.

 

Step aside, you fucking Baby Boomer. You had your chance, and look at the mess you left us with.

 

Well, I'm not quite a Baby Boomer (a little too late, by most definitions). And remember -- things never are as bad as they seem, nor as good as they seem.

 

I have no comment on the Clone's fun with his poking stick, but Joe, I appreciate your homage to the unsung member of Tommy Tutone.

 

What party anybody WOULD HAVE been in the past is utterly irrelevant to today, as much as both parties have changed. Yeah, the Dems were once the party favored by religious southern whites, and the Republicans were once the party of Abe Lincolin and African Americans. But both groups resoundingly switched sides decades ago.

I don't care what MLK would've been in the past when the parties were different creatures, there's ZERO chance he'd be a Republican today

 

Wfw

 

Yes, it's true the GOP was the party of abolition and equal rights for blacks when it started, and it lasted for more than a century until LBJ stole their mojo.

Nixon sensed an opportunity in 1968 and used George Wallace to drive a wedge between whites and Democrats. The rest is history.

 

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Exactly.
For those to lazy to click the link, here's the relevant passage from the Post story:

"In 1960, King was arrested for trespassing during a sit-in and held in Georgia's Reidsville prison. Fearing for his son's life, Martin Luther King Sr. appealed to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to secure his release.

When King was freed, his father vowed to deliver 10 million votes to the Democrat, even though Kennedy was only a reluctant supporter of civil rights. That began four decades of black people voting for liberals.

The younger King voted for Kennedy, and for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson four years later. In that election, King publicly denounced the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater.

Today, the vast majority of black voters are Democrats, including former ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young and former presidential hopeful Jesse L. Jackson, two former King aides.

That is why the ad was "a joke," said Christopher Arps, a former spokesman for Rice and the association. "Anyone with any sense knows that most black people were Republican at one time. But it's a far stretch to think that in the '60s Martin Luther King was a Republican." "




As I've said before on other threads, I grew up in the South in the '60s and '70s. Some of you can live in a fantasy world where the South went Republican because of "Christian values" if you want. In the real world, it was because of racism, and it wasn't at all pretty. I was there.
Which party was Jesse Helms in, again?


Edit: One more thing about that ridiculous bullshit Red Smith posted. Google Strom Thurmond and see if that "writer's" synopsis is even close. Hint: the answer is no.

 

More unsourced antihistorical chain-letter drek from the lunatic right.

Which party was Jim Crow in again?

 

Obviously whoever wrote this letter doesn't know much about American history.

MLK was a socialist. (Check the MLK wikipedia entry if you don't believe me.) Quote from MLK, in the Wikipedia entry: "There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism." He organized the "Poor People's Campaign", an army of the poor to descend on Washington and demand funding for anti-poverty programs.

He was also an outspoken critic and demonstrator against the Vietnam War. From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, King said, the U.S. was "on the wrong side of a world revolution." (Again, from Wikipedia)

So no, MLK was not a Republican, against what you call the Democrat's "socialist agenda" and for "personal responsibility."

Before you post stuff that's patently false, you might want to do even the most basic fact checking next time.