Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Housto

[Scorpion89]

Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Houston - Political News - FOXNews.com

Who knew?

A billboard proclaiming that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political hornets' nest in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the Republican Party.

The jumbo-sized roadside ad made its contentious claim for about a week -- until a local black activist charged that the sign unjustly politicized King's legacy and was hurting his community by telling a "blatant lie."

"Martin Luther King may have very well believed in some of the Christian principles of the Republican Party, but Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican or a Democrat," said Quanell X, who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston.

I love the fact it'sThe New Black Panther who are screaming about this. It's a well know fact that most Color Folks in the late 50s thru early 80;s belong to the Republican Party. I think someone need to eductaed the New Black Panthers about the Southern Democrate or as they were called Dixiecrates.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

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Yeah, this'll be fun.

until a local black activist charged that the sign unjustly politicized King's legacy"

A Democrat black activist, without doubt.

Only Democrats are allowed to politicize the legacy of the equivalent of John the Baptist (that's who he has to be, since he presaged the coming of the Messiah, right?)


then there's this:

Quanell X told FOXNews.com he was pleased that he had succeeded in getting the billboard removed. He added that King would never have embraced the present-day GOP, which he said had "racist elements."

The Democrats still revere Senator Robert KKK Byrd, who, as I am perfectly certain Dr. King knew, led the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for.

What was the cause of the "Free at last, Free at last" speech of King's again?

Oh, yeah. Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, wasn't it? An event that happened ONLY because Republicans broke the Democrat filibuster.

So, for Quannell The Tenth to claim that the GOP has "racist" elements is an absurdity of biblical proportions. He's pointing at a splinter in the GOP's eye while his own eye has the whole damn General Sherman sequoia jammed in.

 

[jamesrage]

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Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Houston - Political News - FOXNews.com

Who knew?

A billboard proclaiming that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political hornets' nest in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the Republican Party.

The jumbo-sized roadside ad made its contentious claim for about a week -- until a local black activist charged that the sign unjustly politicized King's legacy and was hurting his community by telling a "blatant lie."

"Martin Luther King may have very well believed in some of the Christian principles of the Republican Party, but Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican or a Democrat," said Quanell X, who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston.

I love the fact it'sThe New Black Panther who are screaming about this. It's a well know fact that most Color Folks in the late 50s thru early 80;s belong to the Republican Party. I think someone need to eductaed the New Black Panthers about the Southern Democrate or as they were called Dixiecrates.

I guess liberal democrats do not like the ugly past being exposed.

 

[apdst]

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King might not have been a Republican, but if he were alive today, he would spit in the faces of Liberal Democrats.

 

[niftydrifty]

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It's a well know fact that most Color Folks in the late 50s thru early 80;s belong to the Republican Party.

so according to you, whatever "most people were" so then, MLK must also have been?

gosh, it makes loads of sense. I get it.

most people aren't amazing public speakers. MLK wasn't an amazing public speaker.

most people haven't written a letter from a Birmingham jail. so MLK didn't write one.

most people weren't assassinated. MLK wasn't either.

 

[Donkey1499]

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"Martin Luther King may have very well believed in some of the Christian principles of the Republican Party, but Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican or a Democrat," said Quanell X, who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston.

There may be some truth to what he says here. But otherwise, who cares what political party affiliation - or lack thereof - Dr. King had? I certainly don't.

I love the fact it'sThe New Black Panther who are screaming about this. It's a well know fact that most Color Folks in the late 50s thru early 80;s belong to the Republican Party. I think someone need to eductaed the New Black Panthers about the Southern Democrate or as they were called Dixiecrates.

Were they now? I need proof, and you made the claim, so back it up.

King might not have been a Republican, but if he were alive today, he would spit in the faces of Liberal Democrats.

*Facepalms* ... Oi, That would be sooo un-Dr. King like.

 

[apdst]

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*Facepalms* ... Oi, That would be sooo un-Dr. King like.

Until he saw how the Liberals have screwed over the black folks in this country.

 

[Donkey1499]

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Until he saw how the Liberals have screwed over the black folks in this country.

I could imagine he'd be a bit irksome. But literally spit in their faces? I hope you meant that as a metaphor. :lol:

 

[Agnapostate]

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I care very little about electoral politics, but perhaps it should be more well-known that the Democrats and Republicans as a whole did not advocate their present philosophies during the early-to-mid 1960's, which accounted for Strom Thurmond's departure from the Democratic Party and entry into the Republican Party after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It could accurately be said that the Republicans were the more progressive party and the Democrats the more regressive party at the time, with those roles reversed today (though they function more like two factions of one party than anything else).

That said, according to King, capitalism “has often left a gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty,” it “has created conditions permitting necessities to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few,” and it has “encouraged small-hearted men to become cold and conscienceless.” While I myself would advance a critique of capitalism primarily due to its inefficiency rather than its unethical nature, it’s apparent that King was an anti-capitalist and desired radical alteration of capitalist economic structure. However, with Leninism incorrectly identified as “socialism” then and now, he did not openly advance socialism.

 

[Lakryte]

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It's a well know fact that most Color Folks in the late 50s thru early 80;s belong to the Republican Party.

Well known fact? Really? African Americans shifted to the Democratic Party during the Great Depression, and it is a well known fact that the great Depression was in theh 1930s. Since the 1960s, African Americans have voted for Democrats the majority of the time.

The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 led a shift of black voting loyalties from Republican to Democrat as the Democrats became the party of economic advancement and (some time later) civil rights for black Americans. By the 1960s virtually all black voters were Democrats.*

*source

That well known fact is not fact at all, the OPPOSITE is actually a "well-known" fact. You are 100% WRONG.

I think someone need to eductaed the New Black Panthers about the Southern Democrate or as they were called Dixiecrates.

My God don't talk about educating someone when you have so many spelling and grammar mistakes! :2razz:

Seriously though, I do think you need to educate yourself a bit better. The Dixiecrats went AGAINST the Democrats and ran a third-party candidate. They did not=democrats. You seem to think that because the dixiecrats existed, black americans were republican. In reality it was a third party.

 

[apdst]

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I could imagine he'd be a bit irksome. But literally spit in their faces? I hope you meant that as a metaphor. :lol:

I meant it quite literally. It's a shame what the Liberals have done to blacks in this country. he would rip off Jesse Jackson's head and **** down his neck. Al Sharpton, too.

 

[the makeout hobo]

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So, for Quannell The Tenth to claim that the GOP has "racist" elements is an absurdity of biblical proportions. He's pointing at a splinter in the GOP's eye while his own eye has the whole damn General Sherman sequoia jammed in.

Yeah, the GOP doesn't have racist elements in it at all. Real quick, though,just remind me again why George Allen lost his election... or maybe why Trent Lott had to step down as congressional leader... while we're on the subject, which president said abortion was only ok in cases of rape and interracial births... which party had one of their foremost political strategists, Lee Atwater, admit that the southern strategy was an appeal to racist whites in the south?... oh yeah, the Republican party. Don't try to pretend their hands are clean either.

 

[apdst]

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Yeah, the GOP doesn't have racist elements in it at all. Real quick, though,just remind me again why George Allen lost his election... or maybe why Trent Lott had to step down as congressional leader... while we're on the subject, which president said abortion was only ok in cases of rape and interracial births... which party had one of their foremost political strategists, Lee Atwater, admit that the southern strategy was an appeal to racist whites in the south?... oh yeah, the Republican party. Don't try to pretend their hands are clean either.

Allen lost and Lott had to step down because of the Libbos obcession with racism. If it weren't race, the Libbos would be wondering around the woods like Hansel and Grettel, looking for Gramma's house. Purdy sad, if you ask me.

Too bad that Libbos think that racism is a one way street. that might blow up in ya'lls face 'fore too long.

 

[the makeout hobo]

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Allen lost and Lott had to step down because of the Libbos obcession with racism. If it weren't race, the Libbos would be wondering around the woods like Hansel and Grettel, looking for Gramma's house. Purdy sad, if you ask me.

Too bad that Libbos think that racism is a one way street. that might blow up in ya'lls face 'fore too long.

Allen lost because he said to an american born man of Indian decent, "welcome to america, macaca", Macaca being a racial smear, comparing someone to a monkey.

Lott lost because he was convinced America would have been better if Strom Thurmond had won, when he had ran on an anti-integration platform. Yeah... both were racist statements, and both got what they deserved.

 

[Captain America]

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But Jeeezus was a liberal? Wtf?

 

[apdst]

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Allen lost because he said to an american born man of Indian decent, "welcome to america, macaca", Macaca being a racial smear, comparing someone to a monkey.

Lott lost because he was convinced America would have been better if Strom Thurmond had won, when he had ran on an anti-integration platform. Yeah... both were racist statements, and both got what they deserved.

That's why race is the only reason that Libbos have been able to win anything.

 

[the makeout hobo]

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But Jeeezus was a liberal? Wtf?

Who posted that? And I'd say he was some sort of egalitarian pacifist more than any modern title.

 

[the makeout hobo]

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That's why race is the only reason that Libbos have been able to win anything.

Umm... what? We win in lots of places and races without the GOP candidate being a racist scumbag like Allen was. I fail to see how your post progresses from mine.

 

[Lerxst]

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King might not have been a Republican, but if he were alive today, he would spit in the faces of Liberal Democrats.

And he would drop trow and lay a big old Cleveland Steamer on the upper lip of what's become of the GOP.

The Republican Party of MLK's time and what it is today is quite different. So what if MLK was a Republican back then? Does ANYONE on this forum believe this billboard is going to recruit black voters into the GOP?

:roll:

And seriously, some of you need meds.

 

[Baralis]

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So what if MLK was a Republican back then? Does ANYONE on this forum believe this billboard is going to recruit black voters into the GOP?

:roll:

And seriously, some of you need meds.

There are alot of really stupid and easily influenced people out there.

That aside I think it was an uncalled for tactic to begin with. Instead of trying to lead (or mislead) people by claiming something that may or may not be true, why cant they just be upfront and clear about what they believe in and let the people decide to support them or not.

 

[Lerxst]

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There are alot of really stupid and easily influenced people out there.

Agreed.

That aside I think it was an uncalled for tactic to begin with.

Extremely ****ing desperate comes to mind.

Instead of trying to lead (or mislead) people by claiming something that may or may not be true, why cant they just be upfront and clear about what they believe in and let the people decide to support them or not.

I agree, now if representatives from both parties would take that advice....


The more I work in politics the more I don't want to work in politics.


You want to learn a bunch about your political leaders...work with their staff on issues concerning money. You will see them for what they are. And I'm telling you this....I don't give a damn what party or what ideological lean is claimed, they are all very similar.

 

[formerroadie]

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Yup, he was a Republican.

 

[the makeout hobo]

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There are alot of really stupid and easily influenced people out there.

That aside I think it was an uncalled for tactic to begin with. Instead of trying to lead (or mislead) people by claiming something that may or may not be true, why cant they just be upfront and clear about what they believe in and let the people decide to support them or not.

Because all GOP outreach efforts to African Americans have completely failed. I mean, when was the last time the GOP got more than a smattering of the black vote? It's been years. They desperately need to expand outside of their current coalition of evangelical and middle class whites.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

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Lott lost because he was convinced America would have been better if Strom Thurmond had won, when he had ran on an anti-integration platform. Yeah... both were racist statements, and both got what they deserved.

Lott was correct.

I really have to laugh every single time I see some damn stupid Democrat whining about Trent Lott or Strom Thurmond as being racist Senators.

How the hell do those damn fools keep managing to forget about Senator Robert KKK aka "White Nigger" Byrd?

 

[The Mark]

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This was a link posted earlier in thie thread: African Americans in the United States Congress. Who is African Americans in the United States Congress? What is African Americans in the United States Congress? Where is African Americans in the United States Congress? Definition of African American

While reading through it, I found this:

Until 1992 most black House members were elected from inner-city districts in the North and West: Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Philadelphia and St. Louis all elected at least one black member. The only southern cities to have black majority districts were Atlanta, Houston, Memphis and New Orleans. The only Southern rural area to have a black majority district was the Mississippi Delta area in Mississippi.

At the redistricting following the 1990 census, however, southern states were required by a series of court decisions to create districts with black majorities. This was done by a process of gerrymandering, often creating grotesquely-shaped districts to link widely separated black communities. In this way black members were elected from Alabama, Florida, rural Georgia, rural Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia for the first time since Reconstruction. Additional black majority districts were also created in this way in California, Maryland and Texas. This greatly increased the number of black-majority districts.

This process was naturally supported by black Democrats, but it was also supported by Republicans, since the process of segregating black voters into black majority districts required removing black voters from all the other districts, making them easier for Republicans to win. It also had the effect of making the Democratic Party more clearly "black" in Southern states, thus further alienating white voters. By 2000 most white-majority House districts in the South were held by Republicans.

Since no state has had a black majority since the 1940s, blacks can only be elected to the United States Senate with the assistance of white voters. Two African Americans have been elected to the Senate in the modern era: Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican from Massachusetts, and Carol Moseley Braun, a Democrat from Illinois.

Which I found to be very telling.