Martin Luther King was NOT a Republican. Have Republicans Been Telling A Lie ?
Che Guevara - Hero
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Martin Luther King was NOT a Republican. Have Republicans Been Telling A Lie ?
University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King regarding Martin Luther King: "King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s [....] It’s also well-documented that Dr. King was a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood."Also, after the Republicans nominatedBarry Goldwater (who voted against the Civil Rights Act) and Strom Thurmond became a Republican, Dr. King actively campaigned against Goldwater.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King
University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King regarding Martin Luther King: "King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s [....] It’s also well-documented that Dr. King was a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood."Also, after the Republicans nominatedBarry Goldwater (who voted against the Civil Rights Act) and Strom Thurmond became a Republican, Dr. King actively campaigned against Goldwater.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King
Our state partners have spotted a popular Republican talking point: the claim that Martin Luther King Jr. was a member of the GOP.
We heard it in Texas, then Tennessee and nowRhode Island.
To check it out, we checked with King biographers, including Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow, and found that King avoided partisan identification. "It's simply incorrect to call Dr. King a Republican," Garrow told PolitiFact Texas.
We rated the claim False.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/feb/01/n...
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HL 2012/06/19 16:44:36All of the Above
+19In fact, in "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.," which was published after King's death from his written material and records, King called the 1964 Republican national convention that nominated Goldwater a "frenzied wedding ... of the KKK and the radical right."
After signing the act, he turned to two nearby governors and said, "This will have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years."
Because of that, Democrats believe they own the black vote and that they will stay on the Democrat plantation for years to come.
There is a large and growing number of conservative blacks in America, who have realized that voting democrat is just modern day voluntary slavery.
There have been several instances of politicians continuing to be a member of a political party while running other campaigns as an independent. The most prominent examples include southern Democratic segregationists Strom Thurmond in 1948 and George Wallace in 1968, who remained in the Democratic Party for statewide campaigns but mounted national presidential campaigns as independents. Wallace later ran in the 1972 Democratic primaries.
The Republicans back in the 19th century became strongly identified as the party of Lincoln because they were party that freed the slaves, was for civil rights of women and minorities, and the party that won the war (remember- the South lost and will never rise again).
The shifts in American voter demographics beginning in the second half of the 20th century - the southern states from Democratic to Republican, and New E...
There have been several instances of politicians continuing to be a member of a political party while running other campaigns as an independent. The most prominent examples include southern Democratic segregationists Strom Thurmond in 1948 and George Wallace in 1968, who remained in the Democratic Party for statewide campaigns but mounted national presidential campaigns as independents. Wallace later ran in the 1972 Democratic primaries.
The Republicans back in the 19th century became strongly identified as the party of Lincoln because they were party that freed the slaves, was for civil rights of women and minorities, and the party that won the war (remember- the South lost and will never rise again).
The shifts in American voter demographics beginning in the second half of the 20th century - the southern states from Democratic to Republican, and New England and the West Coast states from Republican to Democratic - have prompted several incumbent federal legislators and many state legislators to switch parties. (many minorities switch parties because of JFK and LBJ ). In addition, as changes in state laws made it harder and harder for members of third parties to be elected or re-elected, many former members of these parties became members of the two dominant parties.
and there is NOT a large and growing number of conservative blacks in America. the same goes for conservative Latinos.
#wtf
lol
he was a Liberal no Conservative,REGARLESS OF WHAT HIS LEGAL PARTY STATUS WAS!
Thanks Che, I so appreciate you digging up this nugget.
Glenn Beck was wrong...?
#sarcasm
PolitiFact found that King scholars agree with King's son.
"I've not seen any evidence that MLK Jr. was a Republican but if he registered to vote it would have been as a Republican in Alabama simply because the Dems. would not allow black voters. Throughout the [Civil Rights] movement he worked with the northern Dem. Party," said Dr. Kenneth W. Goings, professor and past chairman of the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University, in an e-mail to PolitiFact Tennessee.
http://www.politifact.com/rho...
I'm with you, Che. I couldn't beleive that MLK was a repub, either. Trying to find a non con site was hard. The family always knows better than anyone what goes on in the life of a person.
I am in no way trying to be disingenuous about this. Martin Luther King, Jr is easily the more famous of the two, and some Republicans seem to confuse the two, making them, at least, wrong, if not liars, though some are that, too. Moreover, the most historically prominent mention of the elder Martin Luther King's Republican status is generally accepted as being in conjunction with the story of how, despite that status, he endorsed jfK in the 1960 election because of what the Kennedys did for his son.
All that notwithstanding, if you intend to call someone a liar, you should be technically correct, and, technically, the first statement to the thread heading is incorrect. A simple answer of "No." is more nearly correct than any one of the choices the asinine set of presented answers is, something a simple addition of "Jr." to the thread intro could have prevented.