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by Georgies-Girl from Brevard County

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I borrowed this from another blogger.  It was written by Ms Frances Rice (in 2006),  who is the chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA).

Why Martin Luther King Was Republican


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 BLEEP 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.

by Frances Rice
Ms. Rice is chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA)
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WilliamHoward read my blog
Oct 3, 2008 | 8:41 AM

This post is extremely enlightening and accurately crafted...it exhibits great relevance.

I, personally, was knowledgeable to some aspects depicted in it and approximately 2 weeks ago, one of my elder brothers and I were discussing issues that relate to this subject...

It is true that A LOT of younger black people, and some older, are unknowledgeable to their historical political roots, as well as many other significant cultural aspects of their heritage.

However, ONE of the VERY FEW things that my brother and I did and do agree upon is that NO MATTER the political party...Government will cater to the Majority and as a "not quite young/not yet old" (29) black man...I am deemed the Minority.

Excellent post though, Georgies-Girl.

davidpatrick344 read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 9:07 AM

good post

didaskalos read my blog
Oct 3, 2008 | 10:14 AM

I never knew ... thanks for the info.

Where are the dems on this topic?

Georgies-Girl read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 10:51 AM

From the above blog:

"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."

The dems don't want to respond to this. They know it is the truth!

CynPro read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 11:02 AM

"Africans had practiced slavery since ancient times. In most cases, the slaves had been captured in warfare and sold to Arab traders of northern Africa. Portugal and Spain became increasingly involved in the African slave trade during the early 1500's, after they had established colonies in the Americas. Portugal acquired African slaves to work on sugar plantations that its colonists developed in Brazil. Spain used slaves on its sugar plantations in the West Indies. During the early 1600's, the Netherlands, France, and England also began to use African slaves in the American colonies.
The Europeans obtained slaves from black Africans who continued to sell their war captives or trade them for rum, cloth, and other items, especially guns. The Africans needed the guns for use in their constant warfare with neighboring peoples.
The slave trade took several triangular routes. Over one route, ships from Europe transported manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa. There, traders exchanged the goods for slaves. Next, the slaves were carried across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies and sold for huge profits. This part of the route was called the Middle Passage. The traders used much of their earnings to buy sugar, coffee, and tobacco in the West Indies. The ships then took these products to Europe.
On another triangular route, ships from the New England Colonies carried rum and other products to Africa, where they were exchanged for slaves. The ships then transported the slaves to the West Indies to be sold. The slave traders used some of their profits to buy sugar and

TM6068 read my blog
Oct 3, 2008 | 11:11 AM

uuhhhh...cynpro...come back to the united states...leave the sugar cane and coffee beans alone ..

oldvamp read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 11:18 AM

Cynny, when you cut and paste, be sure to copy the entire article. What was the point you were trying to elicit? What you pasted is all history. I am happy to see that you do read articles other than Obama.com and the NYTimes.

CynPro read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 11:21 AM

The slave traders used some of their profits to buy sugar and molasses, which they took back to New England and sold to rum producers.
READ MORE at WORLDBOOK - From Africa to America

Georgies-Girl read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 11:39 AM

And the point you are trying to make against the republicans is....

Just what does this have to do with my blog??????

Hello!!! Anybody home?????

afelton read my blog
Oct 3, 2008 | 12:10 PM

hey Georgies-Girl. GOOOD POST!! Thank you for posting it. I knew that the Democrats have been lying to Black people for YEARS but now the proof is in the writing.

Thank you once again.

CynPro read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 12:18 PM

My post was in response to:
"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."
The dems don't want to respond to this. They know it is the truth!"

By starting in the middle, instead of the beginning,
you conveniently leave out the conditions and
the cause of the situation. It was bipartisan.

ChinkyC read my blog
Oct 3, 2008 | 12:56 PM

Georgies-Girl,

Awesome,

I am going to forward to a few people.

Georgies-Girl read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 2:52 PM

Cyn - I did not start in the middle. I just quoted part of my blog. How the black's got her is not part of my blog. This was written by Frances Rice - chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA). I posted this complete. Nothing was omitted.

Georgies-Girl read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 2:58 PM

Got this reply from Ms. Rice:

I wrote that article in 2006. More current information is posted on our website at: www.NBRA.info

During this election cycle, it is of prime importance that we attempt to enlighten black Americans about who Sen. Barack Obama really is -- a far-left wing radical who does not have the judgment or character to be president. Our task of enlightening black Americans is a daunting one. The key stumbling block is money. Democrats can their message pumped into the black community free by the liberal press, whereas we must pay to get our message out. We are a group of all-volunteer, grassroots activists with limited resources. Our primary approach is to provide our grassroots activists with educational materials for them to distribute to their family and friends. If you are interested in being a part of our network, you could consider distributing the attached NBRA Newsletter. It is designed to be printed for relatively little money on two sheets of 11 x 17 paper, then folded and glued or stapled into a booklet.

Thanks for taking the time to write and for considering this idea. Frances Rice

CynPro read my blog view my photos
Oct 3, 2008 | 4:12 PM

The truth is that they are republicans and would
like to sway others to vote republican. The only
slaves I've seen lately are the middle class, and
republican's "trickle down" economics got us here.

didaskalos read my blog
Oct 4, 2008 | 7:16 PM

CP - no sense of slavery in this middle class home. It is amazing what a free market AND living within your means can be like ... truly liberating!

MrAsphalt read my blog
Oct 4, 2008 | 7:23 PM

Very awsome post!!! Dr. KING was a great man...
I would love to have seen this country if he had lived longer.... It makes me sick when I hear black people run down the G.O.P.... The G.O.P. only has two down falls... McLame and Bush'it!!!! I just hope we can elect an indenpendent president before it's too late...

American_Man read my blog
Oct 4, 2008 | 8:51 PM

How about that!

CynPro read my blog view my photos
Oct 4, 2008 | 9:01 PM

didaskalos, what about the young people who are paid
under yesterday's economic conditions and have to
live somewhere. I don't see how they can make it
when most average jobs are $10 - $15 per hour.
When you're older and have the house paid off,
there's not a great deal of effect either way,
but for the young ones, it's just not right.

Georgies-Girl read my blog view my photos
Oct 5, 2008 | 11:43 AM

Cyn-pro...Not all older citizens homes are paid off, but I for one, do not want to be under Obama Rule! Medical and other circumstances affect your home ownership. Thank God, we had good medical insurance, but the fact remains that when the provider is hospitalized, you do what you must do in order to continue living. Sooo...refinance was the option that was available. Also, we had an adjustable mortgage prior to refinance. We now have a fixed at 6.5%. Would have been better if payments had been kept up, but little to no money coming in, you cut what you cannot afford. Am sure there are others in the same boat. Everyone thinks that having medical run by the government is a good thing. Ask a Canadian! Why do you think they come here? I just don't want to have to WAIT if I need surgery. That is what happened in Canada, and I believe England as well, and that is one of the things that Obama is pushing for, unless he has again changed his mind. At first I thought he would be good for our country, but the more I hear him, the more he changes what he says, depending on who he is talking to, the more I like McCain. I especially did not like him ignoring our troups over in Iran/Iraq/Afganistan. As I have said before, "I am not voting FOR McCain, I am voting AGAINST Obama!"

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Originally from Pennsylvania, then New Jersey, then New Mexico. Returned to N.J., and am now retired in Fla. At one time, wanted to Sing or be Artist or a Teacher. None of which happened. Contact me @ GeorgiesGirl321@gmail.com
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