tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post1486687523668620267..comments2024-03-26T02:19:27.813-07:00Comments on ♆ The Macho Response ♆: It's All Coming Together NowThe Crack Emceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-57815209748433699582008-08-26T22:47:00.000-07:002008-08-26T22:47:00.000-07:00Martin Luther King Sr. was most certainly a Republ...Martin Luther King Sr. was most certainly a Republican.<BR/><BR/>His son Martin Luther King Jr, the famous civil rights leader?<BR/><BR/>Not so much.<BR/><BR/>**************<BR/><BR/>[The SCLC’s] Lowery, who knew King well, said there is no reason why anyone would think King was a Republican. He said King most certainly voted for President Kennedy, and the only time he openly talked about politics was when he criticized Republican Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign.<BR/><BR/>In “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” which was published after his death from his written material and records, King called the Republican national convention that nominated Goldwater a “frenzied wedding … of the KKK and the radical right.”<BR/><BR/>“The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism,” King said in the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com