“MLK Was GOP” BILLBOARD IS UP IN S.C.!!
Just in time for his birthday and national holiday, our 2nd “Martin Luther King, Jr. Was A Republican” billboard has been erected in South Carolina.
Located on US 601 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, it’s smack dab in the middle of Rep. James Clyburn’s district – the Majority Whip of the House and member of the Congressional Black Caucus. It’s in the neighborhood of Historically Black Universities South Carolina State and Claflin University.
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It’s actually pathetic that Republicans always have to lie about their *ehem* “accomplishments” and sad that the party which opposed EVERY SINGLE THING that MLK stood for would now try and co-opt his legacy speaks volumes about your utter bankruptcy as a lot.
The very fact that Republicans had this billboard erected is not just disrespectful the King’s legacy (not that you care) but assumes (rightly so, in the case of Republicans) that the viewer has no concept of history.
Normal people (non-Republicans) are aware that southern blacks before the 1960s aligned themselves with the Republican Party as the “party of Lincoln.” This included MLK’s father who left the party to support John F. Kennedy but Martin Luther King himself NEVER endorsed ANY political party and took great pains not to do so for the sake of his cause. Now YOU pigs are deciding he should sink to your level?! Of course, by doing so, you show yourselves as the pigs you are and not worthy of the endorsement of ANY TRUE righteous leader (don’t worry – you won’t get any)
Here’s a little history for you ghouls – During the 1950s, there were virtually no white Republicans and no Republican office holders in the South. At that time, ‘Republican’ meant ‘Yankee’ and the ‘party of Lincoln.’ And what the “solid south” meant was that it was solidly Democratic, as the Southern Democrats were the party of segregation and the Republicans were the party of Lincoln.
When Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, opposed the civil rights bill in the summer of ’64,” African Americans, as well as white normal people, left the Republican Party in droves.
So, the fact that Republicans are now claiming MLK as their own is an outright lie, a disgusting insult, and disrespectful sham perpetrated against the willfully ignorant among them.
Will the Republican Party EVER have ANYTHING in REALITY to boast about?
Sadly, as you are not the party of “MLK” as you disingenuously purport, but the party of the greed-centered sociopaths, hell-bent on turning “The Land of the Free” into the “United States of Serfs and Lords” and their willfully ignorant “everyman” supporters who have been systematically propagandized to believe that indentured servitude to trans-national corporations equals (=) freedom, the answer to that question is a resounding “no!”
Despite MLK’s Effort to Remain Cause-Oriented and Non-Partisan, Republicans Spit on His Grave by Politicizing His Legacy While Simultaneously Opposing Every Single Issue MLK Ever Supported.
More pathetic is the fact that the previous poster doesn’t know that the dems have a lonnnnnnng history of voting against civil rights and that Senator Byrd was the Grand Wizard of the KKK.
Liberals have never been constrained by the truth and I submit the bozo in the White House as anecdotal proof…..Has he ever been open or transparent, or kept ANY of his campaign promises other than his promise to “change America”? Nope. And his changes are for the worse, not the betterment.
He’s selling America down the river into socialism.
My husband and I met Apostle Claverover the weekend and heard him speak. He is right on the money with his program. We found him to be nothing short of insipational. Thanks, Apostle for shining the light on a problem that has been overlooked for WAY too long. The GOP must reach out to ALL Americans. And promote the feeling of inclusion to eveyone.
I am a quarter black; quarter mexican & half white republican! I cannot believe Taradacktyl said that republicans shot down blacks! We FOUGHT FOR African American civil rights-dems did not>the KKK was 80% liberals>democrats! Even FDR funded for the KKK! I AM SICK OF DEMS RUNNING ALL THESE LIES ACROSS TO AMERICANS>in education, in the media, through brainwash. Jackie Robinson was a republican–rosa parks was a republican–I AM A REPUBLICAN! White black mexican asian middle-eastern. Please look at the principles for voting not skin color! Thats what black-democrats need to start doing!
This is my first view of your website , and I have to read this drivel from Taradackdyl!?
A lot has changed since the 1960′s and the people and make-up of each political party has changed. The Demo/Socialists have gone off the cliff for ‘bigger government.’ The auto industry didn’t teach you a damn thing!! Bigger is NOT better! The more intrusive you are, the more people will revolt against you. I’d rather be in the party of MLK, than the party that tries to keep him enslaved, just to further your own agenda.
The GOP isn’t that mush better. ‘The Unifier”, the great W, made almost a big a mess as Carter, only he didn’t have to deal with a hostage situation in Iran, just nukes, and jihadists!
As they are currently constructed, both parties are enslaved to the almighty dollar, not the voter. But, the GOP is a damn sight better than going socialist, and grabbing power and industry just to hold sway over us. Besides, Sen. Byrd , once he’s got his sheets on, thinks everybody’s gone, and falls asleep!
Wake up, people!!(No, it’s not a Pepsi commercial!) This land belongs to us, not the politicians. Get a grip, and get it back!
Taradactyl speaks the truth. Dr. King, my fraternity brother, was not a Republican. In an interview with WVON (the voice of the negro) he specifically stated he was non-partisan so he could affect change on both parties. So is Dr. King a liar? To check this for yourself contact the King Research Center at Stanford University to verify this fact. Anyone who reads and understands history knows that Democrats in the south were racists but that changed when LBJ signed the CRA. Let’s not pretend that the Democratic party of today os the same party pre-1964. Those were not liberals who were fighting intergration. Context is the key to this issue. For those who think that the Democratic party of 1964 is the same as today must answer this question, what was the southern strategy and what were it’s results? We must also answer the question what did LBJ mean when he stated that the Dems would lose the south for a generation when he signed the CRA? Rewriting history is not a way to attract more people of color to the GOP, having good policies and ideas would be better.
Do you have a soft copy of that billboard? I would love to use it as a profile picture.
African American voters “bought” what LBJ was selling because it was a carefully crafted message of government dependence that sounded like a better deal than what they were being offered by Southern Democrats — fire hoses, dogs and hangman’s nooses — at the time.
In 1958, then Senator Lyndon Johnson opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1960. He made a speech in which he very clearly stated that if the DNC didn’t figure out how to control the negro voter, it would be reconstruction all over again (that’s a loose paraphrase).
To fully understand why Johnson was not the friend of minorities, you need to study the speeches of leaders like Malcolm X, as well as the actions of groups like the Black Panthers. NO civil rights leaders at the time taught government dependence None. And that’s all the DNC had to offer, and all it has to offer today.
Your appearance and message at the first MD Conservative Action Network conference was something that we, in the TEA party movement, have needed to see more of over the past years. My African-American friend in the Sheriff’s Department, who is as conservative as me, asked me why he sees no people of color in our leadership and ranks. They are in the leadership and at TEA parties, but unfortunately not in the images presented by the MSM and not in the numbers I would like to see. We have only one African-American lady who attends our Cecil County Patriots meetings.
I believe that people of color shy away from our organization and others like us because of the perception in their community that they would be sell outs to their race. The MSM broadcasts and Democratic leadership push that idea and additionally that I and others like me are racist. Yet AG Holder says Americans are cowards because they do not face our racial divide; the same government that pushes a division between races.
When I picketed my Senator’s office in Annapolis in the summer of 2009, I encountered anger from African-Americans. What I found out was that if I counter them with calm voice with civil questions about policies rather than personalities, with most if not all, I found agreement even with the younger blacks. I was interviewed by the local newspaper while picketing, which by-the-way was never printed, and was asked why I didn’t picket the Senator’s office in Baltimore. I replied that I wanted to avoid confrontation. With the propaganda against TEA Partiers and conservatives, I said I would expect confrontation and little opportunity to reason. I may be wrong but the hate that has been enflamed by the Left’s rhetoric, I thought, would cause violence against my appearance even with my civil but anti Democratic policy messages. I know that the SEIU types have little fear to attack those that oppose their points of view.
My past 15 months on my Freedom Corners with my Navy Jack and Culpeper Don’t Tread On Me flags and messages have shown me that tolerance is not the strong point of the Left. A TEA Party organizer in our region has had his car marked by graffiti and his brake lines cut and I have received written threats and cars aimed at me, so violence by our opposition is not unusual. That does not offer a measure of confidence that conservatives, regardless of color, would be welcomed, or even tolerated, in the community of color.
How that fear/perception can be overcome, I have no idea, but it must be if conservatism and freedom for all is to survive in America.
Please, it would greatly benefit all if you took the time to educate yourself concerning US History. Both parties (Republican and Democrat) are NOT what they use to be, especially in the South. In fact, not until after WWII did each party become what they are today. I am a native Texan and a student of US History, and can assure you that a Democrat in Texas in the years following Reconstruction, would be a card carrying Republican today! I believe the same to be true of most Jacksonian Democrat states of the South during that time period. The truth is painful to read, but in this case, ignorance is NOT bliss.
Memo to Taradacktyl: Get your head out of the south end of the north bound donkey, dude, and breath the fresh air of Republicanism. I recommend you read history rather than drinking at the polluted well of political correct disinformation. If you will note, MLK only started getting real traction with the greater society when he started moving away from the hard Marxism of the Niagra movement and toward the liberty producing ideals enshrined in the Founding Documents. When MLK forcefully pointed out that white americans were failing to uphold the high standard set by the Declaration and the Bill of Rights, the old southern Democrat racisim was defeated. Modern conservatism upholds the Founding Documents as opposed to modern leftism which advances an agenda which can only be described as a toxic blend of Cultural Marxism and Economic Fascism, also know as “Equal Opportunity Slavery”. MLK was a Republican and for the most important reason: Liberty.