Martin Luther King Jr Was Conservative Republican

Please.  Regan is the president who signed the holiday into law.  I marched with thousands of other protestors every year on April 4 (the day of King's assassination) to make King's birthday a national holiday.  Many folks coast to coast boycotted their jobs and held other protests on April 4 to support a national MLK Day.  The PEOPLE made King's birthday a national holiday, not Regan.  Many states were already recognizing it as a holiday before Regan finally signed.

To give Regan credit for "making" King's birthday a national holiday is like giving George Wallace credit for intergrated schools in Alabama. 

Let Stevie Wonder tell you what an uphill battle it was to get King's birthday legalized:      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJPIZ-C-9c

Thanks yes they were registered republicans him and his dad and then JFK(democrat) came and talked politics with them.They basically made deal that the Kings would get JFK 10 million  votes in return for some civil right legislation.Thats when the Democrats pretty much put the black vote in their pocket

Duo/Mary,

Bless your heart for thinking you belonged to a membership site concerned with using any type of intellect or actual vision of equality! That took me all of 5 minutes to discover. Don't waste too much of your time on the negativity of these white historical revisionists.  Because indoctrinated people such as these haters aren't capable of, let alone willing to, hear you out.  Devoting energy to them merely amounts to, as Marley would put it, "saying prayers to the devils."

Peace,

Jen

If you truly want "equal justice", it would have to be against the minority of whites who actually owned slaves, wouldn't it?  Even in the old South, the wealthy plantation owners and such were the culprits, right?  Don't you know that most Southerners did not own slaves?  Every white man in the Old South did not live in a mansion like in the movie "Gone With The Wind."  Have you never heard about the dirt-poor, white share-croppers? To accuse them all of having slaves might be like accusing the mexican laborers picking chillies in New Mexico of doing the same. Also, some, like the Wendish settlers who left Europe due to persecution, refused to own slaves after settling in Texas in the early to mid 1800s. Look, stereotyping blacks & whites, either one, is the same thing.  If thousands of whites had not thought slavery was wrong, wouldn't it have kept going longer?  Blacks need to quit hating, refusing to acknowledge the facts due to all the racist lies and bitterness whipped up.  Yeah, slavery hurt a lot of people.  The ones who did it were a politically-powerful Democrat, rich bunch.  So, hate them if you want to hate, but not all whites, as that only fuels racism when they see your hatefulness as so many of them go out of their way to not show any sign of racial misconduct...even for the sakes of blacks.  Look, if you were with friends on a street and someone else threw a rock at a store window, how would it make you feel if all the others turned and kept swearing that you did it?  The Democrats are using blacks like they use the latinos...for votes to stay in power themselves.  If black america wants to show it is unbiased, it must allow blacks to choose for themselves which party and ideology to affiliate with instead of bullying and ostracizing anyone who has a different opinion or belief.  It is a matter of one-sided respect and discreet prejudice to do otherwise.

Hey, 7434be.  I don't know if it matters two hoots which party you vote for - they seem to all vote TOGETHER when they get to Washington anyway.  Think about it.

Race is just something to keep the working class occupied while the top 5% incomers make off with 95% of the wealth of America.  This time, looks like they made off with 150% plus interest.  Here is a photo that scares the elite:

 

So true

The money some of the elite lost did not disappear into thin air.  What happened was a case of the bigger fish eating the big fish.  Much of the money was ill-gotten gains anyway.  Don't worry.  They're playing catch-up with bail-outs, etc.

$1 million for his wife?  I realize that may sound like welfare to someone who had as much as he had stolen, but some retired couples are penniless!  I think they should have divided that money with his victims and given her income for a year until she could find a J-O-B.  $60,000 would have been generous.

If a man robs a bank tomorrow and steals $20,000, then gets caught the next day with the money in hand, are police going to allow him to leave $5,000 or even $5 with his wife before cuffing him? 

All of this unequal justice needs to stop.

Mr. Woods,...what right-wing propaganda? -- Oh, you mean whatever someone says that you personally disagree with because you cannot look at things objectively due to years of political brainwashing, lies and racism?  Look, fella, just be honest. Sure, you saw that side of history, but what side are you now refusing to see?  You are getting trapped by your emotionalism.  I once saw a young hispanic man get all upset because, while looking at an old catholic portrait depicting Jesus Christ, somebody told him Jesus didn't really have blue eyes and blonde hair because he was semitic.  It just blew his stereotyped image of Jesus. They saw his distress and reassured him that sure, Jesus was real, his portrait had simply likely been painted by blue-eyed Europeans who didn't know better.  This is the same way.