Martin Luther King Junior, a great Republican

Cypress said:
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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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A lie.
 
Southern Man said:
A lie.
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http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Civil_Rights.htm

"Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights. He opposed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Reagan said in 1980 that the Voting Rights Act had been “humiliating to the South.” While he made political points with white southerners on this issue, he was sensitive to any suggestion that his stands on civil rights issues were politically or racially motivated, and he typically reacted to such criticisms as attacks on his personal integrity."
Source: The Role of a Lifetime, by Lou Cannon, p. 520 Jul 2, 1991
 
Adam Weinberg said:
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.
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WinterBorn said:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Civil_Rights.htm

"Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights. He opposed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Reagan said in 1980 that the Voting Rights Act had been “humiliating to the South.” While he made political points with white southerners on this issue, he was sensitive to any suggestion that his stands on civil rights issues were politically or racially motivated, and he typically reacted to such criticisms as attacks on his personal integrity."
Source: The Role of a Lifetime, by Lou Cannon, p. 520 Jul 2, 1991
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A lie.
 
Ice Dancer said:
Look at how he voted for civil rights in 1958 as a Senator from Mass.
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Do you mean 1957? He actually voted for it. But LBJ helped see that a committee gutted the final version so that he could still vote for it and make everyone in the Dem camp happy. If JFK had any similar thoughts, he kept his hands clean at any rate...
 
Threedee said:
Do you mean 1957? He actually voted for it. But LBJ helped see that a committee gutted the final version so that he could still vote for it and make everyone in the Dem camp happy. If JFK had any similar thoughts, he kept his hands clean at any rate...
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3Dork, nice upgrade on the sig pic
 
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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I think he fits in better with the Republicans than he ever would with today's liberal Democrats.....
 
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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I think that many of MLKs quotes about individual incentive and a world based upon character rather than color have actually succeeded at becoming more politically incorrect with the passing of time. I have seen advocates of multiculturalism and the famous salad bowl concept denounce his type of rhetoric as ranging from closed-minded and ethnocentric to racist. This problem seems to be relegated to leftists.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
which, the fact that he said the act was an humiliation of the South or the lie that racial prejudice motivated the statement?....the very fact that the act was deemed necessary was an humiliation.....that conclusion requires no racial bias.....
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I didn't see anyone say that racial prejudice was the motivation for anything. I simply saw that SM called a statement a lie, and then the direct quote a lie, when neither was, in fact, a lie.

The fact that it was necessary may have been humiliating to the south. But the fact that you and I agree that it was necessary did not prevent Reagan from opposing it. If it was necessary, why oppose it?
 
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