A billboard that says, “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican”, has tempers flaring in Houston.
The design for the sign came from the Black Republican group, RagingElephants.org. Put up near south east Houston, the billboard has one of the local community activists, Quanell X, screaming mad.
“Don’t align the man who lived and died to save all people to a certain Republican or Democratic Party!” X continued, saying that Republicans should denounce the billboard and doubts that King would have been a Republican today.
“The party of Tom Delay, the party of Rush Limbaugh, the party of Sean Hannity, the party of Michael Savage would not be the party of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior!" (More...)
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It's unfortunate Booker T. Washington's argument didn't win out of W.E.B. DuBois's approach. If it had, this would be a no brainer, and perhaps the world would have quite a different story to tell today.
And it gets worse every day..The Obama administration is already pushing a radical energy plan down our throats that will cost us trillions more. And this Health care place is the worst ever.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why people can’t see the disaster that Obama is.
Bill, as Dandy Don used to say "If ifs and buts was candy candy and nuts, we'd have Christmas every day."
DD2,
Because we have an ignorant, undereducated populace with no constructive ethic.
The MSM keeps this info tightly under wraps. They won't like you for getting the word out.
Never heard or read any of that before.
No wonder it has certain peoples heads ready to explode.
Ope, I've gotta be careful. David Gregory was rifling through my garbage can last night.
Chub...
I remember the early 60's when Jackie Robinson was an executive with Greyhound. He had established black-owned bank to provide loan and investment money in Harlem. He spoke at Republican Party fundraisers.
BTW... In 1960's Presidential race, Jackie Robinson supported Richard Nixon over Jack Kennedy.
Listen! More heads exploding.
Quarky X probably hasn't objected to the appropriation and sanitization of the MLK mythology by liberals, who are almost uniformly Democrat.
Rhod, I imagine X is stunned, angry and confused. In his fit of pique, he hastily wipes the Kool-Aid stains from the corners of his mouth.
Just so, Goomba. A dull conformist.
I hope I'm right in this...The Raging Elephants are taking a mutinous tone because without defiance, you're never free. I like them already. MLK in his better moments, would have understood and liked them for it, too.
If you're not mocking authority and cultural totems you never see through them to the truth about anything.
Liberalism used to be rebellious, too, but liberals like X are cultural parasites now. They gorge on the myth. Without it, they're nothing.
Exactly, Rhod. Dull conformity leads to statism. What else would we expect from the Left?
There is only one lone voice on the Left lamenting the sellout and obvious lack of candor by Sotomayor. She is a disgrace, and not even a smart one. But no one really cares on the left, because the pyramids must be built. Back to work, slaves!!
Speaking of mocking authority, I am seeing some real positive signs in the national mood, as people appear to be waking up. (For me, my epiphany was watching the defilement of our national pastime last night with that first "pitch" by Obummer -- he looked like a cross between Bruno and Garo Yepremian's wife playing horseshoes when he launched it.
But all seriousness aside ... I guess you can only take so much of being shaken upside down and watching the few coins in your pocket bouncing on the pavement.
Not many here in Houston take Cornell seriously, for what it's worth. He is a parody of a parody.
I saw this as well..great find!..the libs are freaking out.heh
DC, I've heard that Obama's girlie throw, and its reach, are being reframed by the broadcast media.
Much like that old doctored photo of Mao swimming the Yangtze at age 90, the sycophant media must show our Great Helmsman at his bogus best.
Well bloody hell boys and girls! You simply cannot argue with the logic and pure rational reasoning abilities of a man named Quanell X! Give up, give in and go home. This is Benadryl Y signing off.
Rhod, I treasure your comments. Here in the vast blogosphere I've envisioned you the Jeeves to my Bertie. I say... What ho, old man.
DC, I wish I shared your optimism about the national mood. I live in Northern California. The mood here in Victim Land never changes.
Woman, just how do you tell when they're freaking out? It's a lot like when they're sailin' along.
Rhod, Kim Jong Il scored 11 holes-in-one during 18 hiles of golf one day.
Didn't Idi Amin hold the Ugandan record for the 400 metre freestyle?
737, X speaks the truth as a mountain stream pours forth cold sweet water.
Rhod ... the word is getting out. They can say the emperor has no clothes. I saw that throw with my own eyes, and then everything went dark.
Nick ... I hate to break it to you, brother, but I ain't countin' on NoCal to lead the way for some big national mood change. There's a big country out here. Read the polls. The Demos are losing on every issue. If Obama keeps jamming square pegs into round holes, he might be some change, alright.
I am not certain whether I am more perplexed by Mr. X's uncanny ability to tell people what deceased persons would or would not say or do - or more amused by wondering how many years it took for X to learn how to sign his last name.
"And today's program, Mr. X, is brought to you by the letters F and U and the number 2 ! "
I love the name "Raging Elephants". I love the billboard. I wish I lived there. I love it.
Who know if MLK would be a Republican today, but that doesn't change the fact that he was one. My grandfather was a Roosevelt Democrat...I can promise you now, there is no way in hell he would still be a democrat, but that doesn't change the fact that he was one.
One thing that I believe...is MLK would not want his people to be held down as the Democratic party has held them down. And it's sad, very sad.
“Don’t align the man who lived and died to save all people to a certain Republican or Democratic Party!” ... I love the pure brilliance in that statement. Didn't MLK make that choice on his own? HE registered to vote, he made his own choice. The fact that some fool doesn't like that choice won't ever change the facts. But isn't this what liberals do? They yell and call you names then when they realize they can't win the argument they laugh and say you're wrong. They can't present the FACTS because they are the ones who are wrong.
Indeed, Sir. But I've always thought of it as my Jeeves to your Gussy Finknottle.
...I should say Fink-Nottle, the union of two great families whose line ended in a sweet shop in Golders Green.
Rhod, I gotta run. Honoria beckons me.
Pacem... Mr. X's name has been shortened from the original Eckstein.
Cassie... Houston?? Are you sure? Check in with Daisy Cutter for guidance.
I'd recommend Tulsa.
Missississippi, I agree totally. Very well said.
Prism, if the Dems dealt only with facts, they'd get about as many votes as Dick Cheney Nobel Peace Prize effort.
Nickie G. -- Another solid post. I heard Mr. X tell Hannity to "produce a voter registration card! show me where he registered a Republican!" As if he'd be ranting that same line of reasoning if folks were saying that he was a dem. Again, the hypocrisy, oh, the hypocrisy!
Interesting however, that Mr. X did admit that he and Hannity agreed on many issues like same-sex marriage, etc.
Folks seem to forget that Republicans are the ones who were the first to endorse civil rights and fought to free slaves. Republicans fostered and passed, against the will and actions of democrats, the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery, 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to slaves and their offspring and the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution granting black men the right to vote. As much as Obama is desperate to align himself with Abraham Lincoln, the twp major things Obama fails to recognize is that Lincoln was a republican and endorsed freedom for all people unlike Obama who is a liberal democrat and endorses less freedom for successful people.
Blacks are just as conservative as republicans when it comes to moral issues. It's the increased participation in the election that cause proposition 10 to fail in CA.
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Blacks who have bothered to learn U.S. history are aware that the republicans have always been the party to take steps to grant rights and opportunity to Blacks and it's the democrats who have in the past and continue to this day to enslave Blacks and the poor. Giving Blacks and the poor just enough charity to allow them to barely survive forces Blacks and the poor to vote for democrats to assure their meager existence. Democrats have no problem telling Blacks and the poor that they can't succeed without democrats giving them hand outs.
That should've been prop 8 not proposition 10.
JGregg,
The recent Proposition 8 results in California found a shocking majority of Asians, Blacks and Hispanics were on the politically incorrect side.
It's amazing to me that the Democrats have yet again held together this house of cards.
Proppy... sorry, man. You beat me to it.
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