Thursday, August 28, 2008

Dr. Martin Luther King Was A Republican

I'm not a Republican as much as I am a Conservative. I don't vote based on a party. I vote based on my morals, values, and conservative beliefs. Unlike Democrats I can see past a party line and vote for the best leader, even if he or she isn't perfect. This doesn't mean I will vote outside of the Republican/Democrat field because a vote for any other party is a wasted vote(at least in a presidential election). This is how Dr. Martin Luther King lived his life. He involved himself with the party that helped free slaves, enforce Civil Rights, and essentially lift the American black man and woman on a pedestal. It's too bad the Democrats have lied to them enough to make them actually believe that Dems care more. This article is from humanevents.com:

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

The rest of the article is here:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

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