What political party did Martin Luther King belong to?
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.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
8 Comments
Martin Retzolk
Kevin Kirtz I only reported what the article stated, sorry if you do not agree, that is your right...
Kevin Kirtz
Your four things are blatantly false, with the minor exception of plagiarism. Even your reference (snopes) debunks your own statements.
Jermaine Moore
That was then...this is now. It's also true that many of the racist democrats switched parties during the 60s and 70s. That's why so many blacks switched sides.
Robert Swanson
The Democrats were responsible for forming the KKK and many other anti black policies...
Kevin
I didn't know. I always thought that blacks were always democrats and I don't know if this is true or not but someone once said to my father and I that MLK was a communist. Maybe, this is wrong. Maybe he was just a good civil rights leader. What do I know anyway?
Joe Pelosa
although I put Republican Party which is your answer he was neither Republican or Democrat. he quoted I don't think the Republican Party is a party full of the Almighty God nor is the Democratic Party they both have weaknesses close quote.
Cindy J Leese Derr
Wouldnt he love the Republican Party nowadays..... Lol
Martin Retzolk
Four things you didn't know about Martin Luther King.
1. His name wasn't Martin Luther. It was Michael. It was decided Martin Luther had a more prominent ring to it, so he went by that. He never legally changed his name. To this day, he lived and died as Michael King.
2. While working on his dissertation for his doctoral degree at Boston University, he heavily plagiarized from another author who had done research on a subject similar to King's. As academic committee later found that over half of King's work was plagiarized, yet would not revoke his doctrine. King was dead by this time, and the committee ruled that revoking the title would serve no purpose. It was also discovered that King's famous I HAVE A DREAM speech was also not his own. He stole it from a sermon by Archibald Carey, a popular black preacher in the 1950's.
3. King was under FBI surveillance for several years (until he died) due to his ties with communist organizations throughout the country. King accepted money from the organizations to fund his movements. In return, King had to appoint communist leaders to run certain districts of his SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), who then could project their communist ideas to larger audiences. A federal judge in the 60's ruled that the FBI files on King links to communism to remain top-secret until 2027. Senator Jesse Helms appealed to the Supreme Court in 1983 to release the files, so the correct bill in the Senate to create the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday could be abolished. He was denied.
4. One of King's closest friends, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, wrote a book in 1989 in which he talked about King's obsession with white prostitutes. King would often use church donations to have drunken sex parties, where he would hire two to three white prostitutes, occasionally beating them brutally. This has also been reported by the FBI agents who monitored King. King was married with four children.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp#tSqvzLs7ArLBghOz.99.