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>    Why Martin Luther King Was Republican
> Posted on: August 28th, 2008
>
>
> Human Events
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>
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> Why Martin Luther King Was Republican
>
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>
> by Frances Rice
>
>
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> 08/16/2006
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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/>.
>
>
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