Democrats Commemorating a Black Republican

[NYcarbineer]

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

They would have us believe that the modern day Republican Party overrun by states rights secessionists is the party of Lincoln.

 

[NYcarbineer]

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.

Hey, we know very well that the modern day GOP wants to end Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and every other social program they could,

the problem is most of them, unlike you, aren't dumb enough to admit it.

 

[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

They would have us believe that the modern day Republican Party overrun by states rights secessionists is the party of Lincoln.

It is hard for most young people today to understand that there was a time when there were Liberal Republicans. Men who actually cared about their fellow Americans, their struggles, their rights

 

[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?

lol, anyone? Can anyone help the OP out here? He seems to be struggling with this question.

 

[NYcarbineer]

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

They would have us believe that the modern day Republican Party overrun by states rights secessionists is the party of Lincoln.

It is hard for most young people today to understand that there was a time when there were Liberal Republicans. Men who actually cared about their fellow Americans, their struggles, their rights

Once they found out they could effectively write off the black vote and still win elections, that's when the GOP went all-in to the right. What they didn't bargain for was losing millions of other non-white non-male votes.

 

[Flopper]

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.

At the beginning of civil rights movement, democrats controlled almost all political offices in the South. A win in a Democratic Primary was tantamount to winning the election. In order for blacks in the South to influence local politics they had to register Democrat thus almost all blacks in the South registered as Democrats in 60's.

Blacks gained influence in the party and many segregationist abandoned the party. With the passage of the civil rights act and other legislation that directly benefited poor blacks, more blacks registered Democrat throughout the county. It didn't take long for the Democrat Party to become the party of the minorities, the working poor, and the disenfranchised.

 

[rightwinger]

They would have us believe that the modern day Republican Party overrun by states rights secessionists is the party of Lincoln.

It is hard for most young people today to understand that there was a time when there were Liberal Republicans. Men who actually cared about their fellow Americans, their struggles, their rights

Once they found out they could effectively write off the black vote and still win elections, that's when the GOP went all-in to the right. What they didn't bargain for was losing millions of other non-white non-male votes.

They never envisioned a time when white males did not run the country

 

[Pheonixops]

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?

Great question.

 

[Pheonixops]

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.

Is this the republican platform?

" King openly advocated quotas and racial set-asides. He wrote that the "Negro today is not struggling for some abstract, vague rights, but for concrete improvement in his way of life." When equal opportunity laws failed to achieve this, King looked for other ways. In his book Where Do We Go From Here, he suggested that "A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." To do this he expressed support for quotas. In a 1968 Playboy interview, he said, “If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. Working through his Operation Breadbasket, King threatened boycotts of businesses that did not hire blacks in proportion to their population.” "

"No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries…Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of a the labor of one human being by another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. The payment should be in the form of a massive program by the government of special, compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law. "

"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism. "

Myths of Martin Luther King ?



Show me a republican today who believes in the same things above.

 

[Moonglow]

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.

proof? Link?

 

[Moonglow]

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.

Is this the republican platform?

" King openly advocated quotas and racial set-asides. He wrote that the "Negro today is not struggling for some abstract, vague rights, but for concrete improvement in his way of life." When equal opportunity laws failed to achieve this, King looked for other ways. In his book Where Do We Go From Here, he suggested that "A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." To do this he expressed support for quotas. In a 1968 Playboy interview, he said, “If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. Working through his Operation Breadbasket, King threatened boycotts of businesses that did not hire blacks in proportion to their population.” "

"No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries…Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of a the labor of one human being by another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. The payment should be in the form of a massive program by the government of special, compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law. "

"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism. "

Myths of Martin Luther King ?



Show me a republican today who believes in the same things above.

Most would blow it at the liquor store.

 

[edthecynic]

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?

"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right."
- Martin Luther King, on the 1964 Republican Convention

 

[jasonnfree]

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.

Things change. Get thee to the pat buchanan thread in the political forums. It's like a klan meeting and the democrats aren't the ones burning the crosses that's for sure.

 

[sitarro]

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.

The Democratic Party? What is that? I'm 59 years old and a registered Democrat, not a registered Democratic. It's The Democrat Party, they screwed up when they named it and are trying to copy the Republicans that came up with a superior name from the start.......pretty funny.

 

[sitarro]

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I wonder what party this dimwit belongs to.........

 

[Missouri_Mike]

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

The republican party hasn't moved at all in 50 years, we still believe in giving everyone an equal and fair shot. Dems on the other hand haven't changed either. 50 years ago they said blacks were just too damn stupid to make it on their own and they still say so today. Welfare? Gotta have that, blacks can't make it without welfare. Voter ID? No way, blacks are too damn dumb and lazy to get an ID. Affirmative action? Gotta have it, blacks can't compete with whites on a level playing field they're too dumb. Equal application of the law? That's not fair blacks are convicted the most for committing the most crime, it's just their nature you know, they're dumb people that just don't get what the law means.

 

[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?

Great question.

And not a single answer.

Note to the inmates:

Stop claiming that Martin Luther King would be a rightwing nut if he were alive today.

 

[edthecynic]

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

The republican party hasn't moved at all in 50 years, we still believe in giving everyone an equal and fair shot. Dems on the other hand haven't changed either. 50 years ago they said blacks were just too damn stupid to make it on their own and they still say so today. Welfare? Gotta have that, blacks can't make it without welfare. Voter ID? No way, blacks are too damn dumb and lazy to get an ID. Affirmative action? Gotta have it, blacks can't compete with whites on a level playing field they're too dumb. Equal application of the law? That's not fair blacks are convicted the most for committing the most crime, it's just their nature you know, they're dumb people that just don't get what the law means.

Ever notice how the Right ALWAYS projects THEIR racist hate into the mouths of others?!!!!

 

[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.

The Democratic Party? What is that? I'm 59 years old and a registered Democrat, not a registered Democratic. It's The Democrat Party, they screwed up when they named it and are trying to copy the Republicans that came up with a superior name from the start.......pretty funny.

You need to learn the difference between a noun and an adjective.

 

[bodecea]

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

Who would that be?