Democrats Commemorating a Black Republican

[LeftofLeft]

Very nice to see Democrats commemorate a Black Republican and an event 50 years ago put together by Black Republicans. Finally!

 

[Hoffstra]

Very nice to see Democrats commemorate a Black Republican and an event 50 years ago put together by Black Republicans. Finally!

MLK wasn't a Republican.

On the contrary, he called the GOP "racists".

 

[Trajan]

yet they didn't invite the only sitting black senator...institutional racism? ....

 

[Katzndogz]

MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN.

In the 60s the democrats were racists hanging black guys.

The republican they should be commemorating is Archibald Carey who gave the I have a Dream speech at the 1952 repubblican convention. Then MLK stole it.

 

[Trajan]

Very nice to see Democrats commemorate a Black Republican and an event 50 years ago put together by Black Republicans. Finally!

MLK wasn't a Republican.

On the contrary, he called the GOP "racists".

exactly, he was a Dixiecrat

 

[Hoffstra]

MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN.

In the 60s the democrats were racists hanging black guys.

The republican they should be commemorating is Archibald Carey who gave the I have a Dream speech at the 1952 repubblican convention. Then MLK stole it.

MLK was never a Republican.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Very nice to see Democrats commemorate a Black Republican and an event 50 years ago put together by Black Republicans. Finally!

So what sort of Republican would Martin Luther King be in the 21st century?

Which modern Republicans would MLK be endorsing?

 

[NYcarbineer]

MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN.

In the 60s the democrats were racists hanging black guys.

The republican they should be commemorating is Archibald Carey who gave the I have a Dream speech at the 1952 repubblican convention. Then MLK stole it.

MLK was never a Republican.

By the standards of today's GOP, neither was Lincoln.

 

[NYcarbineer]

MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN.

In the 60s the democrats were racists hanging black guys.

.

Other than Zell Miller, those Democrats are all but gone from the Democratic Party of today.

 

[rightwinger]

MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN.

In the 60s the democrats were racists hanging black guys.

The republican they should be commemorating is Archibald Carey who gave the I have a Dream speech at the 1952 repubblican convention. Then MLK stole it.

MLK was a Republican
MLK jr was not. He supported JFK

 

[rdean]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/histo...-martin-luther-king-jr-both-confederates.html

I even started a thread on that. Warrior want's "hard proof" that Lincoln was not a Confederate. So far, the right wingers that responded are limited to "name calling". The problem with them trying to rewrite history are the "collateral facts".

 

[LeftofLeft]

While many Southern Democrats were present for the commemoration, including Dixiecrat Fulbright protoge' Bill Clinton, can Democrats point to any of their own being present in 1963? Did The Kennedy Brothers pull away from the Hoover tapes of MLK long enough to hear the I Have A Dream Speech?

 

[Bfgrn]

While many Southern Democrats were present for the commemoration, including Dixiecrat Fulbright protoge' Bill Clinton, can Democrats point to any of their own being present in 1963? Did The Kennedy Brothers pull away from the Hoover tapes of MLK long enough to hear the I Have A Dream Speech?

What President proposed the Civil Rights Bill that was passed in 1964?



Presidential Vote and Party Identification of African Americans, 1956-1964

As you can see, over the course of just eight years, African American support for the Republican Party practically evaporated.

How did this happen? It can be tied directly to the acts and leadership of three men: Martin Luther King, Jr., who was the leader of the Civil Rights movement; John F. Kennedy, the nation’s president from 1961 through November, 1963, when he was assassinated; and Lyndon Baines Johnson, Kennedy’s successor as president.

Most know who Martin Luther King, Jr, was, and probably President Kennedy as well; President Johnson, although pivotal in the passage of civil rights laws, is undoubtedly the lesser known and least revered among these three historical figures.

But they were all key players in eliminating segregation and legalized discrimination in the South.

How these three men were linked in changing the face of African American politics:

In October of 1960, less then three weeks before the presidential election, Martin Luther King Jr., already recognized as Black America’s most prominent civil rights leader, had been arrested in Georgia on a traffic technicality: he was still using his Alabama license, although by then he had lived in Georgia for three months.

A swift series of moves by the state’s segregationist power structure resulted in King being sentenced to four months of hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. He was quickly spirited away to the state’s maximum security prison, and many of his supporters, fearing for his life, urgently called both the Nixon and Kennedy camps for help.

Nixon, about to campaign in South Carolina in hopes of capturing the state’s normally solid Democratic vote, took no action. Kennedy took swift action. He made a brief telephone call to a frantic Coretta Scott King, speaking in soothing generalities and telling her, “If there’s anything I can do to help, please feel free to call on me.”

It’s likely that Kennedy did not at that moment realize the political implications of that call. Ever the pragmatist, he had resisted the pleas of several aides throughout the campaign that he take bolder public stands on civil rights issues. The telephone call came because one aide caught him late at night after a hard day of campaigning and staff meetings as he was about to turn in. The aide, Harris Wofford, pitched it as just a call to calm King’s fearful spouse. Kennedy replied, “What the hell. That’s a decent thing to do. Why not? Get her on the phone.”

King was soon released, unharmed, due to a groundswell of pressure directed by blacks and whites in numerous quarters toward Georgia officials (Robert F. Kennedy himself, who was managing his brother’s campaign called the judge who sentenced King to prison). At the time, the white media paid little attention to the call, which suited the Kennedys fine. But it likely transformed the black vote. King’s father, Martin Luther King Sr., a dominating, fire-and-brimstone preacher with wide influence throughout Black America, had, like many black Southerners, always been a Republican and until that moment had said he couldn’t vote for Kennedy because he was a Catholic.

(But) the day his son was released from prison, the elder King thundered from the pulpit of his famed Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta: “I had expected to vote against Senator Kennedy because of his religion. But now he can be my president, Catholic or whatever he is… He has the moral courage to stand up for what he knows is right. I’ve got all my votes and I’ve got a suitcase, and I’m going to take them up there and dump them in his lap.”

Why Do Blacks Vote for Democrats? MLK, JFK, and LBJ

 

[LeftofLeft]

While many Southern Democrats were present for the commemoration, including Dixiecrat Fulbright protoge' Bill Clinton, can Democrats point to any of their own being present in 1963? Did The Kennedy Brothers pull away from the Hoover tapes of MLK long enough to hear the I Have A Dream Speech?

What President proposed the Civil Rights Bill that was passed in 1964?



Presidential Vote and Party Identification of African Americans, 1956-1964

As you can see, over the course of just eight years, African American support for the Republican Party practically evaporated.

How did this happen? It can be tied directly to the acts and leadership of three men: Martin Luther King, Jr., who was the leader of the Civil Rights movement; John F. Kennedy, the nation’s president from 1961 through November, 1963, when he was assassinated; and Lyndon Baines Johnson, Kennedy’s successor as president.

Most know who Martin Luther King, Jr, was, and probably President Kennedy as well; President Johnson, although pivotal in the passage of civil rights laws, is undoubtedly the lesser known and least revered among these three historical figures.

But they were all key players in eliminating segregation and legalized discrimination in the South.

How these three men were linked in changing the face of African American politics:

In October of 1960, less then three weeks before the presidential election, Martin Luther King Jr., already recognized as Black America’s most prominent civil rights leader, had been arrested in Georgia on a traffic technicality: he was still using his Alabama license, although by then he had lived in Georgia for three months.

A swift series of moves by the state’s segregationist power structure resulted in King being sentenced to four months of hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. He was quickly spirited away to the state’s maximum security prison, and many of his supporters, fearing for his life, urgently called both the Nixon and Kennedy camps for help.

Nixon, about to campaign in South Carolina in hopes of capturing the state’s normally solid Democratic vote, took no action. Kennedy took swift action. He made a brief telephone call to a frantic Coretta Scott King, speaking in soothing generalities and telling her, “If there’s anything I can do to help, please feel free to call on me.”

It’s likely that Kennedy did not at that moment realize the political implications of that call. Ever the pragmatist, he had resisted the pleas of several aides throughout the campaign that he take bolder public stands on civil rights issues. The telephone call came because one aide caught him late at night after a hard day of campaigning and staff meetings as he was about to turn in. The aide, Harris Wofford, pitched it as just a call to calm King’s fearful spouse. Kennedy replied, “What the hell. That’s a decent thing to do. Why not? Get her on the phone.”

King was soon released, unharmed, due to a groundswell of pressure directed by blacks and whites in numerous quarters toward Georgia officials (Robert F. Kennedy himself, who was managing his brother’s campaign called the judge who sentenced King to prison). At the time, the white media paid little attention to the call, which suited the Kennedys fine. But it likely transformed the black vote. King’s father, Martin Luther King Sr., a dominating, fire-and-brimstone preacher with wide influence throughout Black America, had, like many black Southerners, always been a Republican and until that moment had said he couldn’t vote for Kennedy because he was a Catholic.

(But) the day his son was released from prison, the elder King thundered from the pulpit of his famed Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta: “I had expected to vote against Senator Kennedy because of his religion. But now he can be my president, Catholic or whatever he is… He has the moral courage to stand up for what he knows is right. I’ve got all my votes and I’ve got a suitcase, and I’m going to take them up there and dump them in his lap.”

Why Do Blacks Vote for Democrats? MLK, JFK, and LBJ

Martin Luther King was a Republican.

 

[Dutch]

Yeah, he was such a Republican that he was in Memphis showing support for striking public sector workers when he was shot. You know those public sector workers you guys demonize every chance you get.

 

[Katzndogz]

In 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson increased welfare and ushered in the great society. That's what caused blacks to become democrat and started the poison we have today.

Democrats just want to rewrite history.

 

[bodecea]

While many Southern Democrats were present for the commemoration, including Dixiecrat Fulbright protoge' Bill Clinton, can Democrats point to any of their own being present in 1963? Did The Kennedy Brothers pull away from the Hoover tapes of MLK long enough to hear the I Have A Dream Speech?

What President proposed the Civil Rights Bill that was passed in 1964?



Presidential Vote and Party Identification of African Americans, 1956-1964

As you can see, over the course of just eight years, African American support for the Republican Party practically evaporated.

How did this happen? It can be tied directly to the acts and leadership of three men: Martin Luther King, Jr., who was the leader of the Civil Rights movement; John F. Kennedy, the nation’s president from 1961 through November, 1963, when he was assassinated; and Lyndon Baines Johnson, Kennedy’s successor as president.

Most know who Martin Luther King, Jr, was, and probably President Kennedy as well; President Johnson, although pivotal in the passage of civil rights laws, is undoubtedly the lesser known and least revered among these three historical figures.

But they were all key players in eliminating segregation and legalized discrimination in the South.

How these three men were linked in changing the face of African American politics:

In October of 1960, less then three weeks before the presidential election, Martin Luther King Jr., already recognized as Black America’s most prominent civil rights leader, had been arrested in Georgia on a traffic technicality: he was still using his Alabama license, although by then he had lived in Georgia for three months.

A swift series of moves by the state’s segregationist power structure resulted in King being sentenced to four months of hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. He was quickly spirited away to the state’s maximum security prison, and many of his supporters, fearing for his life, urgently called both the Nixon and Kennedy camps for help.

Nixon, about to campaign in South Carolina in hopes of capturing the state’s normally solid Democratic vote, took no action. Kennedy took swift action. He made a brief telephone call to a frantic Coretta Scott King, speaking in soothing generalities and telling her, “If there’s anything I can do to help, please feel free to call on me.”

It’s likely that Kennedy did not at that moment realize the political implications of that call. Ever the pragmatist, he had resisted the pleas of several aides throughout the campaign that he take bolder public stands on civil rights issues. The telephone call came because one aide caught him late at night after a hard day of campaigning and staff meetings as he was about to turn in. The aide, Harris Wofford, pitched it as just a call to calm King’s fearful spouse. Kennedy replied, “What the hell. That’s a decent thing to do. Why not? Get her on the phone.”

King was soon released, unharmed, due to a groundswell of pressure directed by blacks and whites in numerous quarters toward Georgia officials (Robert F. Kennedy himself, who was managing his brother’s campaign called the judge who sentenced King to prison). At the time, the white media paid little attention to the call, which suited the Kennedys fine. But it likely transformed the black vote. King’s father, Martin Luther King Sr., a dominating, fire-and-brimstone preacher with wide influence throughout Black America, had, like many black Southerners, always been a Republican and until that moment had said he couldn’t vote for Kennedy because he was a Catholic.

(But) the day his son was released from prison, the elder King thundered from the pulpit of his famed Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta: “I had expected to vote against Senator Kennedy because of his religion. But now he can be my president, Catholic or whatever he is… He has the moral courage to stand up for what he knows is right. I’ve got all my votes and I’ve got a suitcase, and I’m going to take them up there and dump them in his lap.”

Why Do Blacks Vote for Democrats? MLK, JFK, and LBJ

Martin Luther King was a Republican.

MLK Sr was.

 

[tinydancer]

Very nice to see Democrats commemorate a Black Republican and an event 50 years ago put together by Black Republicans. Finally!

MLK wasn't a Republican.

On the contrary, he called the GOP "racists".

You are a liar. But what the hey...........you're a newbie.

Link please?

 

[rightwinger]

There is no question that Republicans played a significant role in the Civil Rights movement. A fact that all schoolchildren should be taught. It is a reminder of how great the Republican Party was 50 years ago and how far they have fallen

 

[Flopper]

Very nice to see Democrats commemorate a Black Republican and an event 50 years ago put together by Black Republicans. Finally!

MLK wasn't a Republican.

On the contrary, he called the GOP "racists".

King never express an affiliation with nor endorsed any party.

snopes.com: Four Things You Didn't Know About Martin Luther King