It should come as no surprise 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. And as one pundit so succinctly
stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party
of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now
socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in
slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow
laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and
terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of
every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of
the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the
1950s and 1960s. During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr.
King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house
doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose
vicious dogs. It was Republican P