Midknight Review -- new and revised: Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican and would have been opposed to the Left turn taken by the NAACP of today.

Not only was he a Republican up until the time of his death in 1968, he was anti-abortion. While there have been a number of great Black leaders since Dr. Kings death, no one has come close to having taken his place. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are little more than opportunist, making money off a brand of racism that would have deeply frustrated King.

Francis Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association tells us the truth of the GOP's participation in the Black Movement and why Dr. King continued in that party:

Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.

Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.

We should never forget that the KKK was the invention of Democrats and was never part and partial of the GOP. When LBJ finally passed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, a greater percentage of Republicans voted for the bill than Democrats. On this day of remembrance, Republicans should embrace their role in advancing the principles that were driven by Dr. King so many years ago.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican and would have been opposed to the Left turn taken by the NAACP of today.

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