Vinny, interesting. Thanks.

earlier, Vinny Samarco, wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- From: "RJ" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [CCNV] Why Martin Luther King Was Republican
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>>    Why Martin Luther King Was Republican
>>Posted on: August 28th, 2008
>>
>>
>>Human Events
>>
>>
>>
>>Why Martin Luther King Was Republican
>>
>>
>>
>>by Frances Rice
>>
>>
>>
>>08/16/2006
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>>
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>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights.
>>However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a
>>senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President,
>>Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was
>>organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President
>>Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King
>>wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in
>>order to undermine Dr. King.
>>
>>
>>
>>In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn.,
>>after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd
>>(W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a
>>"trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is
>>ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was
>>assassinated on April 4, 1968.
>>
>>
>>
>>Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a
>>Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery
>>and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment),
>>citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment).
>>Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil
>>Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to
>>establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that
>>was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative
>>action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan
>>(crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals
>>and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the
>>Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon
>>to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson
>>in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.
>>
>>
>>
>>Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the
>>Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that
>>Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of
>>civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in
>>recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the
>>fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the
>>language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in
>>housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil
>>rights legislation without the support of Republicans.
>>
>>
>>
>>Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against
>>Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the
>>Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the
>>need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation.
>>
>>
>>
>>Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in
>>his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned
>>scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil
>>rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967,
>>showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson
>>referred to Dr. King as "that Nigger preacher."
>>
>>
>>
>>Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did
>>not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they
>>would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the
>>Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those
>>"Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert
>>Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
>>
>>
>>
>>Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put
>>up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of
>>South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher
>>Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any
>>moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP
>>leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.).
>>Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching
>>and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd
>>and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond
>>would have been lynched.
>>
>>
>>
>>The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in
>>the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an
>>effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting
>>for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating
>>against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not
>>switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still
>>controlled by Democrats.
>>
>>
>>
>>Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep
>>blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously
>>Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous.
>>
>>
>>
>>After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a
>>good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the
>>minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of
>>the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats
>>stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats
>>on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform
>>law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton
>>before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in
>>September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired
>>on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity
>>scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and
>>Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the
>>current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years
>>for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).
>>
>>
>>
>>Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years,
>>and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7
>>trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's
>>War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every
>>election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in
>>the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against
>>Republicans.
>>
>>
>>
>>In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free
>>black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed
>>the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat
>>Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the
>>pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal
>>responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small
>>businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.
>>
>>
>>
>>Ms. Rice is chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) and
>>may be contacted at www.NBRA.info <http://www.nbra.info/>.
>>
>>
>>--
>>___________________________________
>>Rick Johnson
>>http://oldsarges.blogspot.com/
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>>" Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
>>We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
>>It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. ."
>>-Ronald Reagan-
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>>But if the watchman sees the sword coming and
>>does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and
>>the sword comes and takes the life of one of
>>them, that man will be taken away because of
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John