Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: A Lifelong Republican
Friends,
I like to think of the Republican party as a big old church with wide open doors, and a friendly sign outside inviting anybody who truly loves our Lord and Savour, Jesus Christ to come on in and share his goodness and love. We are the party of moderation and inclusion and we’re the people calling for a re-United States of America where Christians of every color can come together to defeat our common enemies the islamofascists, athiests and homosexuals.
At a time like this, it’s worth pausing for a moment to think of one of the last century’s Republican heroes, somebody who is has been a role-model for our President and the whole STR.com team. I’m sure that most of you have guessed that I’m talking about Martin Luther King Jr, one of the greatest Republicans that ever lived.
Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican. An inspirational T-shirt design from our friends at the National Black Republican Association. I believe I’m going to be wearing one of these next MLK day.
If the Reverend King was alive today, I just know he would want to shake our president by the hand and say ?You’ve done a heck of a job, George?. As I am sure you know, King was a Baptist, and a man of God just like President Bush. I’m sure he would be impressed to see how America has prospered and grown in faith under GW’s leadership.
The Rev. King would look at today’s Republican party and say “My Work here is Done”. He would see his fellow African-Americans in seats of power: Condoleezza Rice and Coln Powell, and the good deeds have done and say that there is no more need for the Civil Rights movement. He would ask America to focus on today’s problems: The defence of marriage and our Religious liberties.
But what about the War against the Islamofascist Iraqis? I just know he would once again stand up for the President. He’d say “Mr President, The whole of my life I’ve campaigned for Freedom. I support the war against terror for the same reason I supported our soldiers in Vietnam. It’s time for the whole of America to back the war-effort with prayers but most of all votes… for the Republican party.”
But please don’t take my word for it, listen to the recording (at the end of this article) of a conversation between two members of the National Black Republican Association, an organisation dedicated to revealing the truth about Marin Luther King. I know that many liberals still believe that MLK was one of them, however that simply is not the truth. Please have a look this official biography:
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 at his family home in Atlanta, Georgia. King’s grandfather was a Baptist preacher, and his father was pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. King earned his own Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in 1951 and earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Boston University in 1955. As a Baptist Minister, he was an eloquent civil rights movement leader from the mid-1950’s until his death by assassination on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee where he was there to support striking sanitation workers. King registered as a Republican in 1956.
As pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, King lead a black bus boycott. He and ninety others were arrested and indicted under the provisions of a law making it illegal to conspire to obstruct the operation of a business. King and several others were found guilty, but appealed their case. A Supreme Court decision in 1956 ended Alabama’s segregation laws enacted by Democrats. After this success, King was made president of the newly established Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King led the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered his most famous ?I Have a Dream? speech. King became a national hero as he promoted non-violent means to achieve civil rights reform. He was awarded the 1964 Noble Peace Prize for his efforts, and President Ronald Reagan made King?s birthday a national holiday
Does that sound like the life of a liberal? Not to me. Republican presidents supported King and helped his cause, just like the Republican party fights for all American freedom today. The democ-rats opposed King and voted for racist laws that hurt African-Americans. No wonder Martin Luther King was a life long Republican!
Yours in Christ,
Tristan J. Shuddery
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This article made me choke up with pride! Before all the real haters start ripping into you for the all the horse sense in the article, I hope they listen to the Negro women in the audio. They get every single thing right!
It just kills me when the liberal lynch mob tries to string us up with the rope of racism. I just ain’t true! Never has been, never will be.
I just wanna relate something that my Daddy always said to me. “Son,” he said, “never judge a man by the color of his skin. Judge him by the size of his nose and his last name.”
God is Love!
Thank you billy. I hope you can use that NBRA audio as your next public service anouncement, I am sure they are a great organization who can benefit from the publicity.
There was a time when I had believed that all African Americans wanted was to drink, fornicate and listen to lewd jazz music. However after reading the NBRA’s website I am relieved to see that African Americans want exactly the same things we do: A defence of marriage a return to Traditional American Values and an end to the permicious sodomy and secularisation of America.
Tristan
To whoever write this article (he or she forgot to sign):
all I could see at the beginning was “MLK was a pastor, so of course he was republican”. Which was a little short for me (as far as I know, the republican isn’t a religious party). Then you cite someone who said: “King registered as a Republican in 1956.”. That would be proof, if someone may confirm. Why did you take the long way? If you have this, you can immediatly start with it and now one will complain.
However, I’m not sure he would be happy with today’s republican party. Of course I’m not him so I can’t say for sure, but someone who fought for non-violent means and who earned a Noble Peace Prize would at least question a president who started two wars (and don’t say it was the same for vietnam: it was not a war the USA started, it was us french).
“Starting in 1965, King began to express doubts about the United States’ role in the Vietnam War. On April 4, 1967 — exactly one year before his death — King spoke out strongly against the US’s role in the war, insisting that the US was in Vietnam “to occupy it as an American colony” and calling the US government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
With regards to Vietnam, King often claimed that North Vietnam “did not begin to send in any large number of supplies or men until American forces had arrived in the tens of thousands.” (Quoted in Michael Lind, Vietnam: The Necessary War, 1999 p. 182) King also praised North Vietnam’s land reform. (Quoted in Lind, 1999) He accused the United States of having killed a million Vietnamese “mostly children.” (Guenter Lewey, America in Vietnam, 1978 pp. 444-5) He once even equated U.S. involvement in Vietnam to Nazi Germany’s use of concentration camps. (Quoted in Lind, 1999)]]”
Yes Revan, this is exactly the crazy sort of whackadoo thing that liberals often say about Martin Luther King, laughable I know! I’m sure you used to believe crap like that before BBN helped you find Jesus. Thanks for bringing it to our attention - there is no way a lifelong Republican would have been involved with the anti-American protests that quote alleges he was involved with.
What i never got were the protesters who called our troops (during vietnam) baby killers.
If a child has an AK-47 or any other rifle and intends on killing our troops, they should not be discriminated because of their age.
Same thing goes for whats going on now.
BTW article would be better if you used the term “I believe” instead of “I know”
i suppose you are right null, if a child or an adult are firing at a soldier, that soldier should return fire.
but i think MLK is taking about things like the My Lai massacre.
Thanks Null, I’m astonished - have you found Jesus too? Since Billy Bob started contrubuting to our site so many souls have been saved. It’s another miracle!
I remember reading that MLK had a dream that one day the little black children and the little white children would have freedom: Freedom to live, Freedom from terrorism, Freedom to worship thw one-true God, and freedom to enjoy their wealth.
Isnst that exactly what the Republican party have achieved? I just know MLK would be proud of us all.
the unity of all Christian people especially in social purpose;
reconciliation between all nations;
world peace with nuclear and general disarmament;
redistribution of wealth to close the gap between rich and poor, and between rich and poor nations;
the common ownership and democratic control of the productive resources of the earth;
a classless society combining social, sexual and racial equality with personal responsibility and freedom of speech and association;
the proper use of the earth?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s resources to sustain the integrity of God?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s creation
-Christian Socialist Movement
i think that jesus would be more inclined to agree with the Christian Socialist Movement than what you believe about christianity
Jesus accompanied me in difficult times, in crucial moments. So Jesus Christ is no doubt a historical figure ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?É¬Æ he was someone who rebelled, an anti-imperialist guy. He confronted the Roman Empire?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ? Because who might think that Jesus was a capitalist? No. Judas was the capitalist, for taking the coins! Christ was a revolutionary. He confronted the religious hierarchies. He confronted the economic power of the time. He preferred death in the defense of his humanistic ideals, who fostered change?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ? He is our Jesus Christ.
and just so you know MLK was a Christian Socialist
Revan! I’m afraid you’ve been taken in by the Liberal Lie about Jesus being a socialist! Our LORD and Savior kicks ass and frankly doesn’t care about poor people and all that sappy nonsense! I have written on this subject and will be publishing my thoughts on October 5. Please do tune in to STR.com then. You might learn something!!!
Tristan: “Thanks Null, I?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥m astonished - have you found Jesus too? Since Billy Bob started contrubuting to our site so many souls have been saved. It?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s another miracle!”
No, hes hiding in a good spot.
All kidding aside though…
But theres always a middle ground for everything.
But if someone has the intention of killing me, I will try my best to kill them first, thats human instinct.
But in reference to the My Lai massacre, that was completely FUBAR. I think most everyone can agree on that.
Leave it to Sambo! for this AMAZING comment: “Our LORD and Savior kicks ass and frankly doesn?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t care about poor people and all that sappy nonsense!”
When was the last time you got laid?
Look into that, it might relieve tension…
Martin Luther King was a really great human. But like everyone, he had some flaws. being republican was his flaw.
Billy said:
I just wanna relate something that my Daddy always said to me. ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?Son,?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ? he said, ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?never judge a man by the color of his skin. Judge him by the size of his nose and his last name.?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?
Now that would be just another kind of racism, Billy.
Tristan said:
I remember reading that MLK had a dream that one day the little black children and the little white children would have freedom: Freedom to live, Freedom from terrorism, Freedom to worship thw one-true God, and freedom to enjoy their wealth.
to live: agreed
from terrorism: agreed
to worship god: agreed, as long as thei?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•re allowed to worship the god they want to worship
to enjoy their wealth: if they have earned it without commiting a crime: agreed
90% reasonable. Wow, Tristan, you?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•re getting better!
Leave it to Sambo! for this AMAZING comment: ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?Our LORD and Savior kicks ass and frankly doesn?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t care about poor people and all that sappy nonsense!?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?
Read the bible. Read it again. Then say this sentence again and you will go to hell for lying.
The German Guy
Would someone do the USA and the world a favor and impeach that idiot?
IMPEACH BUSH!
Tristan,
As always I enjoyed your conservative wisdom with this article, however I do wish you would clarify one thing. If MLK was in Memphis to “to support striking sanitation workers”, wouldn’t that put him in league with a labor union, which we all know are backed by soulless Communists?
I cannot think of any Republican who would not tell workers that if they didn’t like the pay they were getting they should just get another job.
For Liberals out there reading, you probably need a history lesson:
Since the dawn of time until the beginning of the 20th century, employers were free to use any means necessary to prevent their employees from obstructing their pursuit of capitalism. Then Communist infiltrators started forming labor unions and convincing employees they should have some say in the way they were treated and paid, instead of finding another job where their “self-actualization might be realized”. Democ-rats, of course, just saw fundraising opportunities for their Godless platform and candidates by aligning themselves with these haters of Capitalism.
I certainly do not mean to contradict you Tristan. Our ‘party of inclusion’ has no place for dissidents, but others might have noticed this seeming contradiction as well, and we all know what the devil can do with a little bit of doubt, especially in the simple minded head of a Liberal. So please clarify that point for them.
Once again, thanks for all your good work.
Rob R. Baron ~ Esquire
Thank you Rob, and may I add that I greatly enjoy your site. You have a way with words, and I am certain that your Agenda is truly the American way. I strongly suggest that all STR.com readers take a moment to learn from your site.
Now on to your spesific points:
If MLK was in Memphis to ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?to support striking sanitation workers?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?, wouldn?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t that put him in league with a labor union, which we all know are backed by soulless Communists?
A good question, and a perfect example of how MLK’s legacy has been distorted by liberal revisionist historians for their own evil agenda. As you know, the word “support” can mean many things. For example, nobody “supports” america more than Shelley and we writers who work for her. Does that mean we approve of everything that happens in America, heck no. It means we strive to guide Americans back to Godly ways.
I expect the same thing was true of Martin Luther King. I’m sure he would have been greatly distressed to hear that the sanitation workers had gone on strike. He would have gone out there and tried to convince them to give up their futile strke and accept their humble stations in life, the roles which MLK believed God himself had ordained for the people.
MLK would have been concerned that the cancer of communism was taking root in the South, the land he most adored. Tell me this Rob, how best can you “support” somebody who is delusional? You dont pander to their delusions, you attack them. You talk them down. You try to show them the truth and you show them God’s ways. Thats exactly what MLK did to those Memphis workers.
Then Communist infiltrators started forming labor unions and convincing employees they should have some say in the way they were treated and paid, instead of finding another job where their ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?self-actualization might be realized?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?. Democ-rats, of course, just saw fundraising opportunities for their Godless platform and candidates by aligning themselves with these haters of Capitalism.
An excellent analysis - the Democrats are (and always have been) weak-minded opportunists, willing to gain from America’s misfortune. Jesus tought personal responsibility and strength through faith. I do not recall our Lord and savior ever having been an advocate of collective bargaining!
Tristan
Have you not ever studied political science? It would be a good thing to study, seeing that you pretend to be political. You see, there was a shift between republicans and democrats around that time. All of the northeast then was solidly republican and the whole deep south was deeply democratic. That’s the truth. Then because of MLK, there was a vast shift in belief and the democratic party became the party that supported the minorities. I think it was Nixon who came up with the “southern strategy” where he appealed to that racism and the south turned republican, the party of intolerance and the northeast became libral, the party of tolerance. So at that point, MLK very well might have been a republican, but I’m sure, within a shadow of doubt, that if he were not murdered, he’d be a democrat today. If you look at what he believed it, you’ll know i’m right. But what am I saying, of course you know I’m right, since this site proves time and again to be completely fabricated. I guess I must have eaten from the tree of knowledge there, guess that’s a sin, right? I’d rather be smart and go to hell than ignorant.
Rob R. Baron said:
Then Communist infiltrators started forming labor unions and convincing employees they should have some say in the way they were treated and paid, instead of finding another job where their ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?self-actualization might be realized?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?. Democ-rats, of course, just saw fundraising opportunities for their Godless platform and candidates by aligning themselves with these haters of Capitalism.
Well, sorry, but labor unions are even older than the idea of communism. And they were given existence because, if the workers have no rights, the workgivers (i.e. the rich people) can treat them like they want, usually leading to the thing that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. This however can only function a given time before the majority (i.e. the poor people) have enough of the situation. Civil riots and general uprisings are most likely the consequence. And trust me, no one really wants this to happen. Thus, unions are a vital part of modern society, preventing the conflict between poor and rich to escalate, which would be a bad thing for everybody.
Oh, and communists are strictly against unions, because officialy they don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t need a union because the workers actually own the factory/workplace. Inofficialy, as we all know, most communistic systems (there are several different kinds) are in reality just a dictatorship in disguise and dictators don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t like unions. (Another reasons why democratic countries should have them.)
And if I see what has happened to the ones so great republican party, I believe that if MLK lived today, he would be democratic.
The German Guy
Better today than tomorrow!
IMPEACH BUSH!
He had a dream, not a nightmare like you.
Martin Luther Kings corpse was last seen tunneling to
China after reading this article!
I have read some bills of this blog and I’m afraid when I remind that the president of the USA is from the same side as you are. I hope (and I know) that most of the people from this superpower doesn’t care or laugh when reading these.
Your way to invoque god means war!
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I almost choked when I read your comments. They amount to nothing more than revisionist nonsense, wishful thinking, and a defamation of the ideals espoused by M. L. King, Jr. King was committed, without reservation, to the notion that all human beings are created in the image of God and as such, each had an inherent dignity–each deserving of respect–each with an inalienable right to life. He would see Bush’s war on terror as an abomination. Torturing suspected terrorists? Attacking the nation of Iraq on the flimsiest of pretexts? Subjecting hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people to death and injury by our hands? Subjecting tens of thousands of our soldiers to the traumas of war? What fanciful reading of his speeches and writings leads you to make such outlandish claims? In truth, some of your comments are so far removed from reality that they must by looked upon as either the ravings of a psychotic, or as subversive lies. How else would one characterize the contention that King would support the war in Iraq ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?for the same reason [he] supported our soldiers in Vietnam?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?? Yes, he supported our troops in Vietnam, by calling for an immediate end to that war–an enterprise he saw as ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?an unjust, evil, and futile war?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?–comments that there is no doubt he would apply to Iraq. He was a man who spoke out on behalf peace and in support of human rights for all mankind–concepts which are anathema to the Bush Presidency as evidenced by his policies and actions. You have a right to voice your opinions–as I have a right to denounce them for what they are: vile distortions in the service of a vile presidency.
PS. I am neither a democrat nor a republican, but in deference to the truth, it was President Johnson, a Democrat, and Senator Hubert Humphrey, also a democrat, who push through the Civil Rights Act of 1964–the most important single action of the US Government promoting equal rights between races–save the emancipation proclamation, and the US Supreme Courts?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥ ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?Brown vs. Board?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥ decision (a decision that was looked upon as ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?liberal?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ? at the time).
Two years ago, in the midst of a competitive Senate race in Maryland, the National Black Republican Association went to work in support of Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, a conservative black Republican. As part of the group’s efforts, the NBRA ran ads insisting that Democrats were responsible for Jim Crow laws, the KKK, and releasing vicious dogs and fire hoses on black people. Martin Luther King Jr., the group said, was a Republican, and it was Republicans who “freed us from slavery and put our right to vote in the Constitution.”
Voters were not fooled, the African-American community in Maryland found the ads deeply offensive, and Steele was easily defeated. This year, with the first African-American presidential nominee on the ballot, the National Black Republican Association has an even more difficult task, so it’s pushing the old talking points even more aggressively.
A black Republican group has put up billboards in Florida and South Carolina saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim that black leaders say is ridiculous.
The National Black Republican Association has paid for billboards showing an image of the civil rights leader and the words “Martin Luther King Jr. was REPUBLICAN.” Told about the billboards, the Rev. Joseph Lowery let out a soft chuckle that grew stronger as he began to think more about the idea.
“These guys never give up, do they?” said Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King. “Lord have mercy.”
The NBRA’s message is unusually stupid, and will almost certainly fail miserably, but as long as the group is going to the trouble of making up ridiculous claims, we might as well go the trouble of explaining why.
Two years ago, Steve Klein, a senior researcher with the Atlanta-based King Center, said that King never endorsed candidates from either party. “I think it’s highly inaccurate to say he was a Republican because there’s really no evidence,” Klein said. A King biographer, Taylor Branch, also said Thursday that King was nonpartisan.
[The SCLC’s] Lowery, who knew King well, said there is no reason why anyone would think King was a Republican. He said King most certainly voted for President Kennedy, and the only time he openly talked about politics was when he criticized Republican Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign.
“That was not the Martin I know and I don’t think they can substantiate that by any shape, form or fashion. It’s purely propaganda and poppycock,” Lowery said. “Even if he was, he would have nothing to do with what the Republican Party stands for today. Do they think Martin would support George W. Bush and the war in Iraq?”
In “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” which was published after his death from his written material and records, King called the Republican national convention that nominated Goldwater a “frenzied wedding … of the KKK and the radical right.”
“The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism,” King said in the book.
What’s more, given that the NBRA’s ads are not grounded in reality, the King Center asked the group to remove the billboards. Not surprisingly, the National Black Republican Association declined. If they didn’t care about the truth before pushing the bogus message, it stands to reason that the group wouldn’t care about the truth after the fact.
I’d just add that in some ways this right-wing group’s message reveals more than it should. When Republicans want to demonstrate to the African-American community that the GOP can be trusted, it doesn’t point to its agenda, its values, or its candidates. And why not? Because it wouldn’t make any sense — even putting aside the GOP’s humiliating record on civil rights and race relations, today’s Republican Party has very little to offer black voters.
So, we end up with stunts like these. It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.