Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr

[chloe]

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come on hog sing with me baby...we shall overcome, we shall overcome some dayyyy.....:cool:

[CSM]

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come on hog sing with me baby...we shall overcome, we shall overcome some dayyyy.....:cool:

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[chloe]

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[chloe]

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[glockmail]

On this day in history we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King Junior, a great Republican.

http://cache.trustedpartner.com/images/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/NBRA%20MLK%20Was%20A%20Republican%20Poster%20web.j pg

[Agnapostate]

Indeed. A great man.


I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about "Where do we go from here," that we honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here. And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, "Who owns the oil?" You begin to ask the question, "Who owns the iron ore?" You begin to ask the question, "Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?" These are questions that must be asked.


You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry…Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism…There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism.

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[chloe]

Martin Luther King jr was a Republican for sure, he frowned on socialism he wanted everyone to have an equal opportunity at Capitialism. Everyone deserves a free right to the American Pie.

[chloe]

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.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

[glockmail]

Good post Cloe. I stole it. ;)