Martin Luther King Junior, a great Republican

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Jarod said:
I am not saying that he is a Democrat, I am merely pointing out that many of his ideals did not fit in with the current thinking of many in the Republcian party.
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Actually, they don't fit in with your thinking of the Republican Party, and your thinking has repeatedly been shown to be outright wrong.

Thanks for listing some of his better quotes that prove this. :)
 
Jarod 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."

MLK, Jr.
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The Republican party did not do this?

The Democratic party has not vowed to turn this around?
 
Jarod said:
The Republican party did not do this?

The Democratic party has not vowed to turn this around?
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Thanks to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Bush has been able to fundamentally change American and global thinking about the scale of international health funding.

Announced in early 2003, PEPFAR aimed to treat two million people, prevent seven million new infections, and support HIV/AIDS care for 10 million people. PEPFAR especially focused on fifteen countries (twelve of which are in sub-Saharan Africa) with the most troubling HIV/AIDS statistics. The plan has already committed $19 billion to HIV/AIDS prevention & treatment, making it the largest international health initiative directed towards a single disease.
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http://media.www.vanderbiltorbis.co...eorge.Bushs.AidsFighting.Legacy-3578911.shtml
 
Southern Man said:
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So.... Mitt Romney's father, who marched with MLK, Jr., walked out of a Republican National Convention because he disagreed with them....

How does that make it more likely that MLK, Jr. was a Republican?
 
Jarod said:
So.... Mitt Romney's father, who marched with MLK, Jr., walked out of a Republican National Convention because he disagreed with them....

How does that make it more likely that MLK, Jr. was a Republican?
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Because the GOP has failed to act true to its founding many, many times.

It's not a question of "likely", but a fact that MLK was a registered Republican.
 
Southern Man said:
Because the GOP has failed to act true to its founding many, many times.

It's not a question of "likely", but a fact that MLK was a registered Republican.
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1) So you claim.
2) That does not mean he subscribed to the ideals of todays Republcian party.
3) Were I a black man in the South in the 60's... I'd a been a Republican myself.
 
Jarod said:
1) So you claim.
2) That does not mean he subscribed to the ideals of todays Republcian party.
3) Were I a black man in the South in the 60's... I'd a been a Republican myself.
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1. This fact has been confirmed by his niece, Frances Rice.
2. So you claim, with no basis. The GOP was created to eliminate slavery, actually fought a war against Southern Democrats, then fought for civil rights then against the KKK (the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party), then fought against segregation. To claim that after all that they changed after the 1960's is absurd.
3. So you claim. But your absurd view of history and lock-step agreement with the Democrat Party makes that unlikely.
 
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.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.
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Since they failed to keep the black man down with slavery, secession, and segregation the Democrats will try to keep us all down with socialism.
 
The claim that MLK was a Republican doesn't seem to have as much merit in the face of the people he supported and denounced.

He was firmly against Goldwater, which in my mind, would be a pretty clear rejection of the core of the politics conservative and libertarian Republicans then and now embrace.

He was probably more of a socialist, but so what? His major achievement is not directly about the subject of economics, but of civil and human rights.

King doesn't need a partisan affiliation to be an American hero. And neither Republicans nor Democrats need to use him and his image to inspire people of color to join in whatever they want to do. They need to practice the ideas he had that bettered our country.
 
Well, more power the the socially moderate republicans who existed back then, and are now largely extinct. And it's cool that the dixiecrats, for the most part, left the democratic party. Credit for the civil rights movment can be extended directly to blacks. They were the ones that took the punches to the gut for it, the political parties and establishment don't deserve much credit. Although credit can be given to the northern republicans and northern democrats who initiated civil rights legislation. It was always a regional issue, more than a political party issue. Southern democrats and southern republicans were against it, and northern republicans and northern democrats were for it.

Before we get too carried away with patting ourselves on the back, it pays to remember that the heroes of today's conservative movement, Goldwater and Reagan, were against the civil right act. And I believe Raygun called the Voting Rights Act "humiliating to the South"
 
Cypress said:
Well, more power the the socially moderate republicans who existed back then, and are now largely extinct. And it's cool that the dixiecrats, for the most part, left the democratic party. Credit for the civil rights movment can be extended directly to blacks. They were the ones that took the punches to the gut for it, the political parties and establishment don't deserve much credit. Although credit can be given to the northern republicans and northern democrats who initiated civil rights legislation. It was always a regional issue, more than a political party issue. Southern democrats and southern republicans were against it, and northern republicans and northern democrats were for it.

Before we get too carried away with patting ourselves on the back, it pays to remember that the heroes of today's conservative movement, Goldwater and Reagan, were against the civil right act. And I believe Raygun called the Voting Rights Act "humiliating to the South"
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JFK, a Northern democrat, voted against the Civil Rights Act.
 
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