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“The Herd” has done it, again!
Memorial Dedication Last Sunday.
RE.org Billboards, Today!
On this past Sunday the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was dedicated on the Mall in our nation’s capital. Today, 3 of our 4 billboards were unveiled in the state capital of Texas. What a gut shot to the socialist!
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Still promoting the non sense that Dr. King was a Republican. He was not. This is no way to attract new Black voters. “Shot to the gut of socialists” “plantation”, interesting way to woo us. I think this is more of a way to keep others happy and not to increase the size of the tent. I would suggest using more issue based discussions and not just divisive language to try to bully people into the GOP. The modern GOP more resembles the Dems you villify as rabid racists in the past. Not trying to start something but if the GOP wasn’t so comfortable with symbols of racism such as the confederate flag and promoting confederate history month maybe Black people would be more comfortable considering the GOP. Until they roundly denounce such I can’t consider such a party.
@PilotX,
Pilot X, why is it that your side can say anything but if a conservative has the nerve to speak up you suddenly cry “devisive” and bullying. I guess you have never heard your president and the other progressive leaders refer to us the conservatives.
This advertisement will win historically ignorant people over, which is certainly not me. The Republican and Democratic parties have changed drastically over time. The Republican party of today is vastly different than the Republican party of many years ago. African Americans used to vote almost exclusively Republican because in that day the values of the party were different. Abe Lincoln was a Republican but again, the party now, is not what it was in the past. Now, the Republican party is no longer the party of liberation.
Pilot X, You should have actually studied some before you write nonsense. What most people today DON’T understand is that the Republican party from it’s beginning has fought to end slavery, create equal rights, push to give blacks the right to vote, and still(many times) create equal rights bills for the benefit of the black community. All the while that this was going on, Democrats fought them tooth and nail and in many bills filibustred to try to stop such legislation. OH, and btw, MLK WAS a REPUBLICAN.
I was just introduced to your movement via reports from yesterdays rally. I am shocked at the misinformation and distortion of facts you use. Whether Dr King was a republican is irrelevant, the question is where would he stand on issues of today in relation to his many speeches and marches? What would he support now? A honest assessment would say nothing the tea party says resembles what he fought for and what we continue to fight for today.I dont mind blacks being republicans, but there is a reason that blacks became overwhelmingly democrats and the south is now republican. To deny the reality is to deny yourself, but that is another story.
Obama 2012!
If Abe Lincoln were alive today he’d be a Democrat. It’s called a Paradigm Shift of political agendas. What used to be the agenda of one party, shifts to the agenda of the other party. It happens because politics is a very nasty business.
When the election campaigns of 2008 were underway, Lieberman, a supposed Democrat, decided he was an Independent, but was actually trying to get McCain elected with himself on the ticket as his running mate. McCain is a Republican. He doesn’t understand what the true Jewish agenda is and therefore, thanks to a one-sided religious upbringing, thinks the Jews and Israel . . . and therefore – Lieberman, are righteous (long story there). The fact is, Lieberman never was a true Democrat. He was there as a plant to try and dissuade and hinder Democrat agendas.
Sounds dirty, but that’s the nature of politics. Imagine what would happen if enough infiltrators found their way into each others parties. Given the fact that the overall IQ level of the US Congress has always been ‘Average’, and most of them of a Christian, religious persuasion, it’s easy to see how deception can easily change the mind of a Congressman. Get enough of this ocurring over the history of our nation and you get . . . a Paradigm Shift in the political agendas of the parties. How many times has this happened? That’s up to you to find out by due dilligence investigation and research. I’ve done enough for you already.
JimBob- The difference is that the President was telling the TRUTH! Problem with the conservatives is that they L I E. King WAS a registered Republican… but he was killed BEFORE the mass exodus of LIBERALS FROM the Party of Lincoln… and before the mass exodus of Conservatives FROM the Democratic Party and into the Party of FASCISM and RACISTS. Perfect home for skinheads and LIARS… but not for minorities or other folks with more than 1/2 a brain!
So MLK registered as a Republican in the 1960′s. Contextualize this for the readers. Did he register because he agreed with the wimpy nearly non-existent Republican party of Georgia and Alabama during that timeframe? Or did he register (he’s even lucky he was able to do so) because he’d brokered a deal with the White House to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in exchange for the large black swing vote? Or did he register Republican because of what they did back in 1865? Either way how is any of that relevant today with the Republican party whose leaders are mostly made up of former Democrats/Dixiecrats in idealogy? Prime examples Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott, Robert Byrd who had enough guts to remain Democrat. I read, listen to my elders and know enough about propaganda to see right through this. Thank you, but no thank you.
As a black man from England l am always amused by right wingers who’s party utters uses terminology with obvious racial undertones (like the dog whistles of “Welfare Queens”, “Entitlementments” and “Angry Black Man”), not to mention overt wording and imagery (calling the first black president of the US “boy” and having posters of him dressed as a witchdoctor or the White House lawn covered in watermelons) can actually have the balls to have one of their few black members come out and with no sense of self awareness or irony call the current democrats “racist”.
With that in mind l do have a few questions for you. I have asked this of the few other black americans who claim to be intelligent reight wingers but for some reason they seem to have trouble with the answer so i’m curious as to your reply to them.
It’s historically true that a majority of Democrats were against The Civil Rights Act, but it’s also true that Barry Goldwater and those who supported him were also against it. As it is well known he was a major Republican and so were his followers expecially those of the John Birch Society. Where does Goldwater’s overt racism stand in your view of Republicans of that era?
When Lyndon Johnson, the democratic president, signed The Civil Rights Act he quipped that in doing so he had lost The South for a generation. Which party did all of these racists join when they left the Democratic Party?
Republican Richard Milhouse Nixon and his adviors which included the odious Pat Bucanahan created the “Southern Strategy”. What was this and what was it’s purpose in ensuring and securing the particular demographic of voters for his election?
On August 3, 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi where three civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were brutally murdered by local police and the Klan why did Ronald Reagan decide that this was the perfect place to announce his campaign for president with a speech for “States Rights”?
There are other question but l will leave you with one more. Today’s republicans like to look all the way back to Lincoln to protest the view that they are a party of inclusion whop care about minorities as well as women and other groups who don’t have the power base in the US that rich, middle-aged white males have. The last question l have is this:
Can you name one policy put through by Republicans in the last 20 years that have actually aided minorities in the US?
I look forward to your answers with interest.
Yes but once again…TELL THE FULL STORY, after getting a “promise” from K.F.K , that he would press the DEMOCRAT PARTY to CHAMPION CIVIL RIGHTS …Dr King “changed ” his party affiliation from REPUBLICAN to DEMOCRAT in a ceremony alongside J.F.K (again did you guys forget newsreels ,microfiche , this is all historical fact not political fiction )….DR MARTIN LUTHER KING DIED A DEMOCRAT FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRAT CAUSES AT THE END OF HIS LIFE …STOP LYING ON HISTORY !
SO Martin Luther King, before Goldwater, before Nixon and his southern strategy was a Republican. Whoop de doo. That has what bearing on today’s politics? Oh, right. Absolutely none. King was also a self professed socialist who palled around with people like Stanley Levinson and Bayard Rustin…both…gasp…communists. There would be absolutely no room for King in today’s Republican party, and Cain is a shill for the Koch brothers. Your argument is no different than pointing out that a democrat (LBJ) signed the civil rights bill. Irrelevant. The Democrats haven’t been great for black folk, but the republicans are downright awful.
I think the best thing to come out of this is the discussion that I have been trying to stir up for years. Why is the black vote stricky tied to the Democrat party? This has confused me for years. Mainly because its not a black or white thing. Its a character thing. I am a hard working, honest,religious,loving and caring person who believes that god and myself make things possible NOT GOVERNMENT. There are plenty of people, some who I know personally, that have the same beliefs and characteristics whether they are black, white orange or green. TO People of ALL colors shapes and sizes, I say BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, TRUST IN YOUR GOD AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU WANT. THE BEST INVESTMENT YOU CAN MAKE IS IN YOURSELF. NOT GOVERNMENT. This is the main difference between a democrat and a republican. Republicans believe in the American citizen and Democrats believe in the American Government. WHO DO YOU BELIEVE IN?
@Pilot X – It makes perfect sense that Dr. King was a Republican. The Jim Crow laws of 1965 were the brain child of Democrats; example George Wallace (you probably don’t know who George Wallace is google him) was a Democrat. On the other hand “The Great Emancipator” Abe Lincoln was a Republican. Ignorance is the Dems ultimate weapon.
@Todd – LBJ was known for going where the political winds took him. He once said, A good politician can not stand on principles, but must move with the political winds like a reed in a river, or something similar to that extent. His goal with signing with the Civil Rights Act was to persuade Black Americans to be Democrats. He saw an opportunity to get votes. I’d like to see your evidence linking the Koch Brothers and Cain.
For those of you think Conservatives are Fascist, your political spectrum is wrong. Fascists, Communists, and Socialists are on the left end of the spectrum while anarchists are on the right end. Republicans are somewhere in the middle right of the spectrum where limited government would be located. I don’t know where Dems get off calling Conservatives racists.
I think most of you (Dems) have become so diluted with political non-sense that you have forgotten the fundamental basics of what makes a Republican a Republican and what makes a Democrat a Democrat.
A Republican understands that USA was founded as a Republic with a free market society. That laws are enacted to protect the public and its rights while encouraging economic growth. Prosperity comes to those who put forth the effort and financial risk. No risk no reward that’s the way it works; not do nothing get paid.
Democrats want the USA to be a Democracy where the majority rules the country and individual rights are secondary. The problem with that is mob rule leads to an aristocracy then to Communism. The leaders benefit the most from the Democratic system. A large number of Democratic policy ideas stifle innovation and invention. Example if you’re going to tax me more on income above 250k why would I want to increase my earnings from 235k to 250k my take home pay will be about the same; so why work harder to increase my pay? Another example regulations increase operating costs for companies they have to hire someone just to handle compliance. Regulatory compliance can kill a project, and at a minimum slow it down. Some regulation is necessary for public safety, but over regulation kills opportunities. Resulting in more economic contraction, higher unemployment, and less tax revenue.
I am amazed at the lack of economic understanding of the American public.
@Julian,
There’s little doubt that parties change over time, but those changes often end up being the same at their roots. Example, the party of slavery (Democrats,) only moved the plantation from the fields to the government: Uncle Sam’s Plantation. This was accomplished by a deal made by King Sr. and JFK. JFK had almost no real respect for King Jr. or his movement, he was a pawn used by the Democrats to gain power and control over the black vote.
Nothing has “changed drastically,” only the motivation and intent has evolved, and values have not shifted either.
I suggest you spend some time at the Frederick Douglas site (www.TFDF.org) to gather more information. Also, Wayne Perryman, is a great source (www.wayneperryman.com)
Even Abraham Lincoln stumbled on the issue of freeing the slaves. Early on in his career he had made some statement that he came to understand were wrong, and he corrected course and did the right thing. The vast majority of Republicans welcome all. Unfortunately, their are always those who identify with parties who do not represent the values of the majority. I have seen more vitriol come from the NAACP and La Raza in the last six months, than by any “right” of center group.
As a man who said, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom”, something tells me he wouldn’t jive with the current Republican platform.
This group is ridiculous and this sign is offensive to both Dr. King’s legacy and the community it is hoping to poach from.
What is wrong with a Black person being Republican? Bill Clinton was a White Democrat that tried to appease the Black community by going to Black churches, playing jazz on Arsenio Hall, but he still got rid of Welfare. So you still think a Black Democrat has you best interest in mind?
I love that the majority of the comments are from intelligent, educated people! These billboards are absolutely ridiculous and misleading (if they weren’t so obviously moronic). Thank you for speaking up! I have never seen such encouraging comments on a post like this. I have nothing to add to the worthwhile history lessons already happening in the above posts. Do you really think “the black vote” is so easily won?
This article, like it’s author is a joke. He may have been a registered republican, but he died a democrat and for the least of these. You don’t know your history and you can’t care about the 99′ers. Maybe you would understand more if you can out to the hood. There is some good in the hood. We know who as our interest at heart. It may not be, everything that we want, but it is more than anything that anything that we would get from the republican party. You need to go and read your history books. The right history books!!!
Interesting.
I wrote a post yesterday asking some simple questions concerning conservative history post 1965 and the reasons for the black vote moving to the democrats and the moderator was too cowardly to post it. Looks like the old “freedom of speech” gig is reserved for US citizens only here, expecially if it’s considered to agree with the right wing views of the site. I have posted on many US blogs on many issues over the years from Redstate, Politico, LGF, Malkin, Media Matters, FDL, Field Negro, Crooks and Liars and Kos yet the only one who has a moderator stop something being published is the conservative black guy who agrees that those African Americans on the US political left are the brainwashed sheep.
Not surprising really. The vacuum of ideas from the American right wing in regards helping minorities to getting people back to work is an absolute disgrace, one that you are doing well. Of to highlight.
I do not understand how we even have time to worry about promoting the confederate flag when there are more important issues like creating jobs. Its not Rick Perry’s fault the issue came up – its the people who want the confederate flag recognized. How can those people push their issue in Perry’s face when there are more important matters like housing the homeless, medical programs for children, and creating jobs. I think that the Sons of the Confederate Veterans need to back down and let our government focus on main issues.
All these comments are political and do not address the abortion issue.
Political Position: Independent (Social Liberal, Fiscal Conservative)
Katie Kalpin…I’m sorry, I respectfully think your views are backwards. Democrats protect all minority or underrepresented classes. They take pride in helping all in need including Veterans, LGBT, Middle Class, Disabled, Blacks, Hispanics, Women, Senior Citizens etc. So no, they are not suggesting that Blacks cannot make it on their own. That wouldn’t make any sense, if they protect other classes as well. The Black community is not represented well (in terms of policy) from the Republican Party.
Candidates in the race will all campaign to specific voting demographics like Evangelicals and Seniors. And that’s exactly the reason why this website is doing so well. You don’t see many Republican ads soliciting Black interests.
Lastly, there is a reason why many African-Americans (Pre-Civil Rights Era) were Republicans. Republicans were the Liberals and Democrats were Conservatives. After the Civil Rights Act passed, the Liberals and Conservatives switched parties. Read about Southern Democrats vs. Northern Democrats. And remember that MLK was from the South. Also, remember that many Republicans such as John McCain (R-AZ) opposed having a federal MLK Day. He later apologized for voting against it.
Obama 2012
@ Jake and Jerry why not provide ME with some evidence my frat brother Dr. King was a Republican. You can’t. But just for grins and giggles here is some evidence I provided earlier on this site from the King Research center.
July 28, 1960
King advocates political nonpartisanship
In a televised conversation with CBS, King comments that nonpartisanship creates a ”better bargaining position…the Negro will not be inextricably linked to any political party.”
Your turn. And please don’t link me to Francis Rice’s site in which she provides no evidence, thanks.
“July 16, 1964
King opposes nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater by Republicans
King asserts that nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater by Republicans will aid racists.”
Kinda strange that a registered Republican would oppose the GOP nominee huh?
‘December 27, 1963
King evaluates Johnson in newspaper article draft
King writes a draft of “Our New President,” a newspaper column largely in favor of President Johnson.”
Funny also how a registered Republican supported the Democratic nominee over Goldwater.
What say you Jerry? Any shred of evidence he was registered as a Republican? C’mon, you seem so sure so produce something.
“I haven’t done extensive research, but with the little research I have done it seems to me that Dr. King was a registered Republican.”
Well Jake I have done extensive research and he was not a republican. Please share your research.
And Jerry, what you and Claver are talking about happened over 40 years ago. Maybe you can explain the southern strategy to me since you seem so knowledgeable and maybe explain why Ronald Reagan began his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, MS amid confederate flags while using the term “states rights”. If you can’t provide acceptable explanations I don’t see how Black people can be confortable in the GOP. Maybe also you can explain why modern Republicans seem so comfortable with symbols of racism such as confederate flags. Repubican governor Bob McDonald reinstated confederate history month after the previous Democratic governor eliminated it, which action is more acceptable to Black people? Rrepublican governor Nikki Haley refused to remove the confederate flag from state grounds. Is that an action that should endear Black people to the modern GOP? You say I should study before writing nonsense, well show me what an astute student of politics you are and I can learn from you. Ha!
KING QUOTES THAT STATE HE WASN’T A REPUBLICAN!!!
“I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either.”[29]
^ Oates, Stephen B. (December 13, 1993). Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. HarperCollins. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-06-092473-7. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
I don’t think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses … And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.”[30]
^ King, Jr., Martin Luther (2000). Carson, Clayborne; Holloran, Peter; Luker, Ralph et al.. eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957 – December 1958. University of California Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-0-520-22231-1.
Although King never publicly supported a political party or candidate for president, in a letter to a civil rights supporter in October 1956 he said that he was undecided as to whether he would vote for the Adlai Stevenson or Dwight Eisenhower, but that “In the past I always voted the Democratic ticket.”[32]
^ King, Jr., Martin Luther (1992). Carson, Clayborne; Holloran, Peter; Luker, Ralph et al.. eds. The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. University of California Press. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-520-07951-9. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
@Johnny Nape, why would you assume I don’t know who George Wallace was? I’m pretty good with history. Shock, I even know who Bayard Rustin, Manuel Querino, Howard Zinn and A. Phillip Randolph are. Question for you, what do Dr. Kinig and Eugene Kinkle Jones have in common, I mean you are a history buff right?
PilotX:
Now THAT was a smackdown!!!
I’m sure that some here would believe you to be acting “above your station” for stating facts like that!!!
Well UK, typical conservative reaction like 10 year olds. “Nah nah nah Dr. King WAS a Republican cause I said so”. They never offer any evidence beyond what his roght-winged niece said or a link to NBRA’s Francis Rice piece in which she eloquently does not offer any evidence Dr. King was a member of the GOP but titles the article “Why dr. King was a Republican”. If they can accept lack of evidence as ecidence that’s on them but I can’t. Look around here, mostly white males talking about how inclusive their party is but ignoring obvious facts 1. it took almost a decade for Republicans to elect two Black members of congress 2. the Dems have at least 20 times the number of Black elected officials 3. the Dems are much more diverse and have the majority of elected Latinos, Asians and Indigenous people and not to mention the only serving Muslims. The GOP is almost 90% white and exclusively Christian and THEY want to throw around charges of racism because before I was born there were southern racists? Then they ignore the obvious, where does most of the support for the GOP come from, you guessed it, southern whites. Can you blame folks for not wanting to be a member of the current GOP?
Uh, SMC that mean either Dr. King or Apostle Claver is a liar…………………..choose wisely.
PilotX:
It’s also amazing that in “post racial America” conservatives, expecially the few black ones, don’t have the guts to stand up to or call out the lines of Pat Bucanhan & the drug addict Rush Limbaugh. The likes of the blogger here, Alan West, Alan Keyes, J.C Watts and tha complete fool Lloyd Marcus are perfect examples of the type of cowards who don’t stand up to overt bigotry. It’s not too surprising though. Look at what happened to Herb Cain when he talked about the disgusting sign at Rick Perry ranch/guesthouse/shooting range. They all accused him of playing the race card instead of his usual role as “Uncle Ruckus”.
Yep, the only racism that exists in America today is Black against white racism.
MLK was against the Vietnam war and a heavy proponent of non-violence in general, complained about injustice in medical care, and felt we needed to create full employment. He’s further to the left than people the modern Republican Party bashes.
Could anyone list the issues where Martin Luther King, Jr. shared the same positions as today’s Republican party?
What would today’s Republican party make of the Poor People’s Campaign which Dr. King led, where he crisscrossed the country to assemble “a multiracial army of the poor” that would descend on Washington — engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol, if need be — until Congress enacted a poor people’s bill of rights.
King’s economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America’s cities. He saw a crying need to confront a Congress that had demonstrated its “hostility to the poor” — appropriating “military funds with alacrity and generosity,” but providing “poverty funds with miserliness.”
When Dr. King was assassinated, he was in Memphis to support the AFSCME sanitaton workers union, who were on strike.
Can you name a Republican today who would support any of Martin Luther King Jr.’s work for social and economic justice?
Dr. King MOST CERTAINLY WAS A REPUBLICAN. However, his ideals are in DIRECT opposition of the present day republican party. DIRECT OPPOSITION. Read about his philosophies and learn for yourself. The democratic party has INDEED failed the Black community. However…Republicans need to understand that they need to do more than put up some billboards to get Black people to embrace that party. This gesture is not genuine and quite honestly, very half assed.
@ PilotX & UK…Below says it all!!! His Father was a republican until endorsing Carter and speaking at the Democratic Convention. Twice!
As the leader of the SCLC, King maintained a policy of not publicly endorsing a U.S. political party or candidate: “I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either.”[29]
In a 1958 interview, he expressed his view that neither party was perfect, saying, “I don’t think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses … And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.”[30]
King critiqued both parties’ performance on promoting racial equality:
Actually, the Negro has been betrayed by both the Republican and the Democratic party. The Democrats have betrayed him by capitulating to the whims and caprices of the Southern Dixiecrats. The Republicans have betrayed him by capitulating to the blatant hypocrisy of reactionary right wing northern Republicans. And this coalition of southern Dixiecrats and right wing reactionary northern Republicans defeats every bill and every move towards liberal legislation in the area of civil rights.[31]
Personal political advocacy
Although King never publicly supported a political party or candidate for president, in a letter to a civil rights supporter in October 1956 he said that he was undecided as to whether he would vote for the Adlai Stevenson or Dwight Eisenhower, but that “In the past I always voted the Democratic ticket.”[32]
In his autobiography, King says that in 1960 he privately voted for Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy: “I felt that Kennedy would make the best president. I never came out with an endorsement. My father did, but I never made one.” King adds that he likely would have made an exception to his non-endorsement policy in 1964, saying “Had President Kennedy lived, I would probably have endorsed him in 1964.”[33]
Hi,
You need to have these advertisements in IL. IL is a mess and is ripe for a change. Blacks here are more segregated than in any other state and they are almost seriously racist like nothing I have seen elsewhere. They like Lincoln but then how do they go and vote democratic? I think it’s a lack of education. Would love to see these billboards on I 55 into the city and all over Hyde Park, where Obama is from. If you can change the numbers in this neighborhood than the state of IL would turn.
For you to put up a sign saying MLK was a republican to lure the black vote is a slap in the face to black people as a whole as if we are ignorant enough to follow the leader instead of trying to reach out to individual blacks on policy, you pidgeon hole blacks as one group who are not a diverse people. People who are democrat, republican as well as independent and use racist terms such as being on a plantation if they chose to vote democrat and saying Clinton eliminated welfare as if that is the only policy we would be interested in not foreign policy, war or healthcare. Then to try to use the ultimate scare tactic, the KKK was democrat key word being “was” why don’t you go to a new klan meeting today and ask them what party they currently affiliate themselves with. It’s funny when a black man wants to revisit history he is accused of “playing the race card”.
The racist in the dem party back in the day ran to the republicans when the party started taking on more social issues under the leadership of lbj, if you guys want a apology then they would have to ask the supreme court the justice dept and anyone who was a part of jim crow including state and local authorities, but it’s time to move forward from that painful time in our history, now in order to be a republican you have to be a “correct” negro spewing certain talking points and taking us backward, how about taking on your own party about people displaying the first black president with a bone through his nose, demanding his birth certificate as if he has to show his “freedom papers”. Speaking of racism if that had been a white president to take out the most reviled man in american history Osama Bin Laden the streets would have been lined with people, instead I listen to republicans on tv saying it was Bush’s policy that caught him even though he couldn’t in seven years, so I’m going to pull the race card and say a black president can’t get no respect. It’s nice to revisit the past for history sake, but you need to address “people” about what is currently going on because this brilliant idea you brought to your republicans leaders is insulting.
My grandparents were Republicans—when they were liberal! As have been expressed here already, the 2011 Republicans are not the same Republicans as they were back in the day. The parties began to slowly switch ideologies after the Emancipation Proclamation. It doesn’t matter what LABEL you want to slap on Dr. King or anyone else, it’s about what they stand for and there’s no way Dr. King would be associated with Reagan/Bush/Tea Party Republicans. Everything that Dr. King stood for, today’s Republicans are trying to destroy, so let’s please stop stretching the truth here.
@ DJ—AMEN…. You speak the truth!!
I suspect that this website’s owner is on the payroll of a republican party operative. Claver is cynically trying to make money by demonstrating that he can spread lies and propaganda in the black community, thereby driving uninformed black voters to the republican party.
Why are ALL of the Republican Governors besides Gov Christie from NJ trying to pass laws restricting voting rights? Its like every state with a Republican governor is trying to change certain criteria in registering and voting at the poll place that will make it more difficult for people that have a RIGHT to vote do their CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY! And its very curious how the people that are overwhelmingly disadvantaged people are people of color. Can a black Republican explain why a party that do things like this should receive tha African American vote, regardless of who the candidate is?
Wow.
Just watched Cleaver get his rear end handed to him by Martin Bashir!! Obviously he’s never been interviewed by a British newsman before!!
It was funny to watch someone squirm whe nthe rhetoric they have been spouting is quoted back to them and they don’t have a coherent answer!!
The Tea Party has nothing to do with race. All we are , are a bunch of hard working people that are sick of being over-taxed and watch the useless idiots in DC waste our hard earned money on crap, and actually spend money we have not given them. DC has no content of character.
Dear citizens of the USA. I hate to tell you, but skin color does not matter. Get over it ! Most all of us, are judged by, and judge by, the content of ones’ character. The whole race deal is long dead. Welcome to a color blind, hard-working America. If you realize this and vote to keep your hard earned money, the DNC and their plantation politics will be an embarassing thing of the past.
Dr. King would ABHOR the likes of Sharpton, Jackson and Barry. If he were alive today, Apostle Claver would be his GO TO MAN!