Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican

I'm not sure I understand your argument.

So because ethnic group A doesn't support gay rights (a grossly ignorant assumption on your part) that means that gay rights aren't important? Only people whom the problem affects should be speaking out against it, is that right?

You're ignorance is becoming more apparent with every post but I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, so explain yourself.

 

Yes when I was in grade school we studied US history and were taught parties change over time. You do realize it was a Republican president who established the EPA. You also realize it was Republicans who came up with the individual mandate.

Looking up ancient history doesn't tell you what a party's platform is in the present. Especially when the party leaders have sworn to fight the president even if it means flip flopping on their previously held positions.

 

In 1968, King and the SCLC organized the "Poor People's Campaign" to address issues of economic justice. The campaign culminated in a march on Washington, D.C., demanding economic aid to the poorest communities of the United States. King traveled the country to assemble "a multiracial army of the poor" that would march on Washington to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol until Congress created a bill of rights for poor Americans.

King and the SCLC called on the government to invest in rebuilding America's cities. He felt that Congress had shown "hostility to the poor" by spending "military funds with alacrity and generosity". He contrasted this with the situation faced by poor Americans, claiming that Congress had merely provided "poverty funds with miserliness". His vision was for change that was more revolutionary than mere reform: he cited systematic flaws of "racism, poverty, militarism and materialism", and argued that "reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced"

Yep. Sure sounds like a conservative to me. -_-

 

Strawman.

From the very first page of this thread...

 

I have posted about this many times, including how from 1870 til it's demise at the hands of the SPLC in1986 the Democrat Party was the Party of The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan & Segregation . MLK jr . was a Republican & Goldwater voter who took an interest into Socialism right befor his death.

 

So political parties change... Thanks for the update.

 

But Racist Bigoted Grey Hair Democrats like Al Gores Father & Bill Clintons Mentor (Fullbright) & West Virginia Politicians like Byrd & Others (Still Alive) & every one of my Older Grey Hair Democrat relitives in the Southern states and their offspring who moved north & west did not change. (Except me ) I have always been a Conservative Nationalist Republican

 

No strawman.It's an historical fact that if not for the Republicans
the Civil Rights act would never have passed let alone saw the
Light of Day.Al Gores father and Senator Fulbright had to be
pushed and shoved,literally at the point of embarassment to change the
way they voted on the 1957 Civil Rights acted proposed by Republican
President Dwight Eisenhower.However both Al Gore Sr. and Senator
Fulbright did in fact,NOT change their NO vote {nay} from the 1957
Civil Rights act on the 1964 Act.In fact those Southern Democrats filibusterd
and held out for 75 days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Yet today the Party of Liars { Democrats } try and convince themself and
faux flock of sheeple that it was they who championed the Rights of Blacks.

 

You think Robert Byrd was a leftist? hahahahahahahah

Why do I even try??

 

He was an unoppolegetic Kluxer ( Except for the Cameras ) who said anything about leftist ???

 

Robert Byrd endorsed Barack Obama early. I'm not sure how that is racist.

 

He was a Grand Kleagle of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan .

 

I don't understand. He was in the KKK when he endorsed Obama?

 

No he was a Racist Bigoted Homophobe like 80% of the Democrat Party was when he was in the Klan back when MLK jr. was a Republican Goldwater voter.

 

Again for more propaganda. The modern day Republican Party decided to exploit racism after such luminaries as John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson championed and pushed for the most far reaching civil rights bill in history.

Most of the Southern Politicians voted it down and it didn't matter whether they were Democrats or Republicans.

But after the passage of the 1960's Civil Rights Bill the Republicans decided to take advantage of the fact that Democrats were closely associated with Civil Rights.

They invented the Southern strategy to exploit the more racist south and to steel white voters away from the Democrats.

The Republicans themselves admit to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy


Although the phrase "Southern Strategy" is often attributed to Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[2] but merely popularized it.[3] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[4]

The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s and continued through the latter decades of the 20th century under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.[1] The strategy was successful in achieving its goals; it led to the electoral realignment of Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the 20th century came to a close, the Republican Party began trying to appeal again to black voters, though with little success.[1] During the 2000s decade, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized for his party's use of the Southern Strategy in the previous century. Michael Steele served as the party's first African-American chairman from January 2009-January 2011.

 

Of course. Democrats wouldn't usually register blacks back in those days. Why anyone would register as a Democrat is beyond me.

 

The Democrat Party was the Party of the Klan until the Klan was litigated out of existence by the SPLC (This is not in dispute).

 

Oh I see. So parties do change. That was my point.

 

...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..."a grossly ignorant assumption on your part", so I guess you don't know any blacks?...every black guy I have personally talked with about gays was ok with gay bashing...too funny...


Kabuki Joe

 

Let's see. Barry Goldwater ran against Lyndon Johnson. Goldwater was against the Civil Rights act of 1964. Goldwater was the presidential nominee of the more racist oriented Republicans at the time. Lyndon Johnson won when he ran against Goldwater with almost 94% of the African American vote.

This is what inspired Republicans to develop thier "Southern Stategy" to turn the South Republican.

 

Let see the Entire South was firmly in control of the Democrats (Dixiecrats if that offends you ) and the Klan was a powerhouse of Democrat politics until the 1970s ( George Wallace was top Dem in pesidential Primaries in 72) and LBJ is on white house recordings saying NI**ER in phone conversations and LBJ recieved the support & votes of Texas & Southern Klan , & The Democrat controlled Congress (House & Senate) was dragged kicking & screaming into support for Republican assisted Civil Rights legislation that LBJ suddenly got fully behind .

 

To say that 94% of Blacks would vote Dixicrat (Democrat) in 64 is hilarious .

 

Who cares? So was Lincoln, but neither of them would have been part of that party after Nixon and Reagan shamelessly played the race card with their Southern Strategy to woo all of the racists after LBJ and HHH supported the Civil Rights act.
You need to stop trotting out reactionary nonsense as if it were still relevant.
Reactionaries are not relevant because they live in the past.

 

Stop trying to imply that all the Old Greyhair Racist Democrats became Republicans , (Only Strom Thurmond ran from the Racist Democrat party after WW2) With Segregationists like Al Gores Father & Bill Clintons Mentor (J William Fullbrite) and Kluxer Byrd ALL REMAINING Democrats til they Died ,The Dixiecrat(Democrat Party did not change ) it jus took the old Racist Bigoted Homophobes into their "Big Tent".

 

...true, they would much rather been associated with the likes of JFK (adulterer #1), Clinton (adulterer #2) and Barrak "I'll put a hit out on you" Obama...yes, much better then the men you mentioned...


Kabuki Joe