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MLK Was A Gun Carrying Republican

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by Monica Davis

Some folk find it astonishing that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Republican and a gun carrier.

Back in the day, before the Republicans joined at the hip to right wing extremists, the Republican Party, AKA, the “Party of Lincoln” was the preferred party for African Americans. Loyalty to the deified, slave-freeing Lincoln kept blacks glued to the Republican party. At the time,you’d find Democrat Klan terrorists in local sherrif and police departments–and on the judcial bench, as well.

According to the National Rifle Association:

On September 28, 1868, a mob of Democrats massacred nearly 300 African-American Republicans in Opelousas, Louisiana. The savagery began when racist Democrats attacked a newspaper editor, a white Republican and schoolteacher for ex-slaves. Several African-Americans rushed to the assistance of their friend, and in response, Democrats went on a “Negro hunt,” killing every African-American (all of whom were Republicans) in the area they could find. (Via Grand Old Partisan)

Which brings us to today…
Asshat Jason Whitlock, the Kansas City columnist whose article on Jovan Belcher‘smurder-suicide inspired an anti-gun rant by NBC’s Bob Costas, now says that the pro-Second Amendment National Rifle Association is “the new KKK,” Newsbusters’ Tim Graham reported Monday.

Obviously, Whitlock is as ignorant as he is offensive.
The NRA actually helped blacks defend themselves from violent KKK Democrats in the south, not the other way around. morehere

Republicans criticized the late Senator Byrd because of his KKK connections: 

Most folks are semi-aware of the late Sen. Byrds’ connections to the Ku Klux Klan,  but it seems those roots run deep among the Democrats. It was the Democrats, after all, who  created the Klan in the post-Civil War period termed Reconstruction.

Today there is an article in the Charlotte Observer about the Democrat party disowning two of their own for their active racial activities.

But it’s the video where he casually talks about “shooting” and starving black South Africans – and kidnapping the country’s president – that caught the attention of people who track white supremacists.

Hollar, who is running for the N.C. Senate from Catawba County, is one of two Democratic candidates whom state party officials have taken the unusual step of denouncing.

The other is Carrol Crawford, a former Ku Klux Klan leader once convicted of burning a cross in Charlotte. He’s running for Rowan County commissioner. READMOREHERE
Given the racially hostile land that he was working in, is it no wonder that the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both carried a gun and died by a gun. MLK had a house full of guns. And, was turned down for a gun permit because local white authorities hated the idea of an armed black man who was able to defend himself. 
“MLK had a houseful of guns. Ironically, he was turned down for a carry permit, because, being African American, he was deemed by local law enforcement to be “not suitable.” READMOREHERE
Long after MLK was dead and buried, white politicians are jumping on the gun rights band wagon “in honor of Dr. King.” They forget the fact that blacks were vulnerable to white mobs because they were not legally allowed to arm themselves—and when they armed and defended themselves, they were lynched and imprisoned.

Gov. Cuomo stood with the Rev. Al Sharpton in Harlem on Saturday to tout the state’s tough new firearms laws — and how they can help neighborhoods plagued by gun violence.

Cuomo, in an address to the National Action Network to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, suggested the gun control legislation was another step on the road to the slain civil rights leader’s vision of social justice.

“We passed new gun laws, and we passed new gun laws on Martin Luther King Day,” Cuomo said. “Why? Because, it’s simple enough — innocent people have died.” Read mor

Gun control is a doubled edged sword for blacks: on the one hand, thousands of illegal guns in the hands of gangsters and thugs are creating a river of blood in black communities; on the other hand, unarmed blacks are at the mercy of armed thugs.



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    • muckracker1

      Black Panther Party For Self Defense–came up head 2 head with MLK over nonviolence

      • GK

        You really should stop “reporting”. You’re not very good at it. I sincerely hope it isn’t your day job.

        • Anonymous

          Why does freedom of speech bother you?

    • Decode the World

      Here’s a test. Take one city block in the worst neighborhood of Chicago, a block that has had some real trouble, 24/7 crime. Get each household range training and a gun. Post signs on the street and on every door that every home is armed, trained and ready for whatever. Let’s see what happens to the crime rate.

      • jbarouch

        I agree w/ your point! Or you could use the following example: Where would you prefer to get a flat tire? In ‘gun-free’ NYC? or the Bible-belt? The answer is academic!

    • GK

      muckracker1, Monica Davis – you are absolutely incorrect.

      As the leader of the SCLC, King maintained a policy of not publicly endorsing a U.S. political party or candidate: “I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either.”

      In a 1958 interview, he expressed his view that neither party was perfect, saying, “I don’t think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses … And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.”

      The only reason he owned a gun and applied for a CCW permit was for self-defense, because he was the subject of death threats from Republicans. You might want to get your facts straight.

      • Anonymous

        GK, Sounds like you got some bad information. MLK was a Republican as his family has said. The Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic party. nbra.info

    • war blur

      ” University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King regarding Martin Luther King: “King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s [....] It’s also well-documented that Dr. King was a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood.”[19] Also, after the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater (who voted against the Civil Rights Act) and Strom Thurmond became a Republican, Dr. King actively campaigned against Goldwater.[35]”

      “To check it out, we checked with King biographers, including Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow, and found that King avoided partisan identification. “It’s simply incorrect to call Dr. King a Republican,” Garrow told PolitiFact Texas.”

      • Legend

        Yep…..However after his defeat Goldwater switched to the Democrat party and never voted Republican again…..

    • Keith Brekhus

      Your evidence that MLK was a Republican is this? “Back in the day before the Republicans joined at the hip to right wing extremists, the Republican Party, AKA, the “Party of Lincoln” was the preferred party for African Americans.” But King wasn’t around in the 1860s it was the 1960s and the shift to the Democrats by African-Americans happened between 1928 and 1932. FDR got 71% of the black vote as early as 1932 and by 1964, LBJ got a whopping 94 percent. Yes, in the Deep South King’s racist opponents were racist Dixiecrat Democrats, but at the national level blacks had already embraced the Democrats over the Republicans as early as 1932, so unless you can provide specific evidence that MLK identified as a Republican and not baseless speculation your argument should be heaped upon with ridicule and scorn…http://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/blacks-and-the-democratic-party/

      • Anonymous

        Factcheck has a political agenda and is unreliable. The KKK consisted of racist Democrats well after 1932. The NRA actually helped Blacks defend themselves from attacks from the Klan. Bomber Bill Ayers is a typical professor in our schools and the media is part of the government/corporate cartel. Do some independent research and stay open minded.

    • jbarouch

      I hope I’m not repeating anybody here, but you could easily say the Democrats were the party of Slavery? No?

    • terry the censor

      Muckracker1 can’t even spelll “muckraker” correctly. So why expect facts from Mucky?

      • Cap-Z-ro

        If MLK was dirty he would still be alive.

        They only shoot heroes, which is why Dubya and birthless Barry remain intact.

      • muckracker1

        Kiddo: i know how to spell the word; don’t let your nitpicking get in the way of derailing your brain, MUCKRAC_K_ER1

    • Wonkadelica

      Once again BIN is the clueless representative of the honkey nation:

      “The party’s dramatic reversal on civil rights issues culminated when Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On doing so he commented, “We [the Democrats] have lost the South for a generation.” Meanwhile, the Republicans, led again by Richard Nixon, were beginning to implement their Southern strategy, which aimed to resist federal encroachment on the states, while appealing to conservative and moderate white Southerners in the rapidly growing cities and suburbs of the South. Southern Democrats took notice of the fact that 1964 Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater had voted against the Civil Rights Act, and in the presidential election of 1964, Goldwater’s only electoral victories outside his home state of Arizona were in the states of the Deep South.”

      http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=192604

      “Hose who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

      • ninjenise

        wonk- who you callin “hose”?

        • Wonkadelica

          “Those…”
          Bifocals and touch screens are a dangerous combination. :grin:

    • ninjenise

      The Republican party joined at the hip with right wing extremists? You need to get out more.

    • Equalizer

      GK – my Marxian friend…
      It should come as no surprise to you 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 not your obamunisum who follows Saul Alinsky’s “Marxism” and “Socialism” regime.

      #666: Obama and Michelle quote Saul Alinsky in Campaign Speeches…

      Barack Obama has used lines from Rules for Radicals, a radical Far Left book by Saul Alinsky (“father of community organizing” and a notorious far-left radical) in his DNC Convention speech.

      Gateway Pundit nailed him:

      What to make of Obama’s use the terms, “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be?” From whence do they originate? Try Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals.

      Do your homework.

    • Anonymous

      The only black man in politics who still represents the dream is Allen West(R) and hooray for him.

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