Martin Luther King Jr.
The truth of the matter is blacks became Democrats as a result of a backroom deal between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Martin Luther King Sr. to free his incarcerated son. The young activist Martin Luther King Jr. was locked away in jail somewhere and they couldn't get him out. They really didn't even know exactly where he was being held. They just know he was being held somewhere in the South. In exchange for the younger King's freedom. His father agreed to deliver the black vote to Democrats in the 1960 election to secure his son's release. Martin Luther King Jr. was released and JFK was elected President. The rest is history.
Go to the NBRA's website and listen to Dr. Kings neice Dr, Alveda King:
Click on this link below for even more reasons:
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We have a history of following both political parties despite their wrongdoing.
The intervention for MLK would not have been necessary had it not been for the Compromise of 1877. In the election of 1876, the Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio, while the Democrats selected Samuel J. Tilden, the governor of New York and a well-known abolitionist. The initial returns pointed to a Tilden victory, as the Democrats captured the swing states of Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, and New York. By midnight on Election Day, Tilden had 184 of the 185 electoral votes needed to win. He led the popular vote by 250,000.
Republicans refused to accept the result, accusing the Democrats of using physical intimidation and bribery to discourage Blacks from voting in the South. Democrats, in turn, accused Republicans of ignoring many Tilden votes, claiming that Republicans had ruined ballots in one pro-Tilden Florida precinct by smearing them with ink. The final outcome hinged on the disputed results in four states--Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina--which prevented either candidate from securing a majority of electoral votes.
After several months of disputes, a meeting was held in February 1877 at Washington, D.C.'s Wormley Hotel (which ironically was operated by an Black man), Democratic leaders accepted Hayes' election in exchange for Republican promises to withdraw federal troops from the South, provide federal funding for internal improvements in the South, and name a prominent Southerner to the president's cabinet. When the federal troops were withdrawn, the Republican governments in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina collapsed, bringing Reconstruction to a formal end. Under the so-called Compromise of 1877, the national government would no longer intervene in southern affairs. This would permit the imposition of racial segregation and the disfranchisement of black voters.
And despite being sold out by Rutherford Hayes, Blacks continued to solidly support the Republican Party for the next 60 years and left it overwhelmingly after the nomination of Barry Goldwater in 1964.
In conclusion "Martin Luther King delivered the vote."
Common, that simply is not true. Blacks started leaving the GOP as early as the days of FDR.
The facts are that Eisenhower got 39 percent of the Black vote in 1956 and Nixon got 32 percent in 1960. It is not a majority, but it is WAY more than any GOP candidate would get today. I wouldn't call a seven percent drop "delivering the Black vote." It was a slow decline. The National Review cites these statistics as well. My father, who is still alive, voted for Nixon in 1960 and so did a lot of his friends and family. He never liked JFK and will tell you so without hesitation.
The bottom fell out when Goldwater ran 1964 -- he got only 6 percent of the vote. Things haven't been much better since.
I don't know how I missed the post by Anon 3:26. I would have loved to have that discussion. Their post as well as thefollowing in my opinion only further prove my point
Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Houston
By Joseph Abrams
- FOXNews.com
A jumbo-sized road sign claiming that civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political fight in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the GOP.
A billboard proclaiming that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political hornets' nest in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the Republican Party.
The jumbo-sized roadside ad made its contentious claim for about a week -- until a local black activist charged that the sign unjustly politicized King's legacy and was hurting his community by telling a "blatant lie."
"Martin Luther King may have very well believed in some of the Christian principles of the Republican Party, but Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican or a Democrat," said Quanell X, who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston.
"Dr. King was bigger than a political party -- he was a humanitarian, and so to attach him exclusively to any party is to devalue his humanitarian global status," he said. "We were insulted ... by the billboard because it was a blatant lie."
King held great sway over black voters and carefully courted both Republicans and Democrats. He never officially endorsed a party or candidate.
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But the founder of RagingElephants.org, the black conservative group that sponsored the sign, told FOXNews.com that the sign was designed to get blacks to rethink their political affiliation -- about 95 percent of blacks voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential elections -- and that this is just the beginning. He said a radio campaign that focuses on "the destructive nature of liberalism" is forthcoming.
"We think it's imperative that [the GOP] try and attract more people from the communities of color to vote their values -- to vote conservative," said Claver Kamau-Imani, who heads the Corinthian Christian Empowerment Church, a small house church in Houston.
What's more, he said, the sign is accurate.
Kimau-Imani told FOXNews.com that King's niece, the Rev. Alveda King, has long argued that her uncle was a Republican, though he acknowledged there was no documentation or voting record to prove it.
Those claims enraged Quanell X, who held a press conference late last week to rally against the sign and ended up in a shouting match over the legacy of the murdered civil rights icon.
The billboard, which Kamau-Imani says cost $3,000 to display for a month, came down shortly after Friday's press conference -- about 20 days ahead of schedule, a move Kamau-Imani attributed to the "spineless" response of the billboard company, SignAd.
"The simple fact is that the leader of the Black Panther Party here in Houston called a news conference and they spooked," he said.
Representatives for SignAd did not return requests for comment.
Quanell X told FOXNews.com he was pleased that he had succeeded in getting the billboard removed. He added that King would never have embraced the present-day GOP, which he said had "racist elements."
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not be with the party of Newt Gingrich, he would not be with the party of Sarah Palin, he would not be with the party of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage or Sean Hannity," he said.
Representatives for the King family did not return requests for comment.
What went little noticed in the fray was the subtext on the billboard, which said that the Raging Elephants are committed to "leading America's 2nd emancipation."
Kamau-Imani told FOXNews.com that black voters feel that "your blackness, your street cred is tied up with whether you are a Democrat or not" -- a notion he said amounted to a kind of mental slavery that keeps blacks from speaking freely.
The president of the Houston branch of the NAACP said that the civil rights group does not wade into partisan politics, but seemed pleased that the sign had come down.
"The community has prevailed," said Carol Galloway, president of the organization's Houston branch.
Despite losing some of his investment in the billboard, Kimau-Imani told FOXNews.com he was happy with the effect of the sign.
"The billboard was simply something to get a conversation started, to make people think about their political affiliations," he said. "It appears we have achieved our goal."
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