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From: cbell97@bellsouth.net
On Nov 15, 11:13 pm, rbowman wrote:
> Charles Bell wrote:
> > Nixon had been thanked personally by Dr. King for his help in passing
> > the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and King, a Republican, endorsed all
> > Republicans, except members of the John Birch Society.
>
> > In 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King’s protest against the Vietnam
> > War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as “that Nigger preacher.”
>
> Don't get your Kings mixed up. King Sr. was a Republican, King Jr was
> unaffiliated
False. Jr. was a Republican; we don't know how he voted in 1960;
Nixon (as an active President of the Senate) pushed the 1957 Civil
Rights Act through Congress, and Jr. thanked him for that.
The Democrats only did an about face on civil rights in 1964, as a
Northern strategy of their own, noting Goldwater's success in winning
5 deep-South states, but there was no movement of elected Democrats to
the GOP for 20 years until after the Reagan-Democrat turnover. If
there was to be some causal relationship between Southern Democrat
switch to the GOP and the race issue, it would not have taken 20 years
and the issue to have have been moot for over a decade.
The Southern strategy was as Nixon determined it be in 1966:
"We [will] build our Republican Party on a foundation of states'
rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense,
and leave it to the "party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze
the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial
injustice."
>
> According to Randall Kennedy it was Truman that reffered to Adam Clayton
> Powell as the damned nigger preacher.
>
There are too many accounts that it was LBJ and only one account from
a racist that it did not.
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