Since the sign company took this sign down, I think the proponents should put up another one using another sign company reminding folks that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and that it was Republicans who fought to end slavery; and that the KKK was associated with, and arguably started by, the Democratic Party; and that Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat Senator, was a member of the KKK. And so on. You know, set the record straight.
Headline link: “Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Houston”.
…Kimau-Imani told FOXNews.com that King’s niece, the Rev. Alveda King, has long argued that her uncle was a Republican, though he acknowledged there was no documentation or voting record to prove it.
Those claims enraged Quanell X [who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston], who held a press conference late last week to rally against the sign and ended up in a shouting match over the legacy of the murdered civil rights icon. …
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