Martin Luther King - Republican

It is a little know fact that Martin Luther King was a Republicanl
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican as was affirmed by his niece, Dr. Alveda C. King
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You gotta love it... Arlen keeps recycling the same ol' sh*t and disproven lies...

Slow news day?

Houston group says Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican

The 2008 AP story about the Florida and South Carolina billboards included a statement from King's son, Martin Luther King III: "It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states."

Friends and associates of Martin Luther King Jr. also objected. The AP article says that the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King, "said there is no reason why anyone would think King was a Republican." Lowery told the AP that King almost certainly voted for Kennedy and that the only time he openly talked about politics was when he criticized Goldwater in 1964.

The story quotes Lowery as saying: "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. ... Even if he was, he would have nothing to do with what the Republican Party stands for today."

Finally, we checked with political experts in the states where King spent most of his adulthood. Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia, said King "didn't die a Republican." But Bullock speculated that King could have been Republican in his youth when Southern Democrats were intensely segregationist. William Stewart, a political scientist at the University of Alabama, said that if King was a Republican, he kept it a secret. King focused on civil rights, Stewart said, and "partisan politics wasn't relevant."

Upshot: Raging Elephants points to a King family member whose declaration lends support for its claim that King was a Republican: his niece Alveda. We didn't divine how she reached that conclusion. Another King relative, his son, disagrees, as do respected academic experts and former King associates and friends. The record shows that as a civil rights leader, King avoided partisan identification.

We rate the statement False.

http://www.politifact.com/texas/stateme ... was-repub/

Dang, Arlen... Just can't go more than 24 hours without lying? rofllol

Yes, it's "little known" because it's another made-up Republican lie, that keeps getting retold and retold by the usual nutjobs, who hope if they say it often enough the gullible and stupid will believe it.

Oh, and I'm still waiting for that link to Obama saying "I'm rich"... You let me know, now, y'hear? rofllol

True fact but not popular with the current day left/Democrats/liberals. Why are you posting the truth? You know that the opposition will call you a liar and claim your post is propaganda or worse - an out and out lie (even when it's the truth).