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National Black Republican Association
www.NBRA.info
Newsletter Civil Rights History Edition
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican
News in Brief
In “A Covenant With Life: Reclaiming MLK’s Legacy”, Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., states:
“My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or ‘Daddy King’, was a Republican and father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican.”
See the video of Dr. Alveda C. King affirming her uncle was a Republican at: www.NBRA.info
Why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican
By Frances Rice
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Why? It was the Democrats who Dr. King was fighting, and he would not have joined the Democratic Party, the party of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. To understand why MLK was a Republican, let’s take a walk through history.
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History of civil rights - In a nutshell
• The Republican Party - From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks.
• The Democratic Party – As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
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Gee...you mean that's not what the right keeps saying? I guess I'm terribly wrong after all!
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Despite what many leftwingers claim, social programs doesn't equal socialism...
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
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History can certainly be your friend...as long as you're clear on the difference between it and jingoistic propaganda.edit on 19-4-2013 by JohnnyCanuck because: ...just because, eh?
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American Civil War and post-Reconstruction
After the election of Abraham Lincoln, Southern Democrats led the charge to secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America.
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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
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Ohhh...health care will put Corporate America out of business!!! Sounds like a serious case of rectal/cranial inversion to me. Why do so many Americans rush forward to defend those who are screwing them the worst?
Because unlike you many of us see much of what the "Obamacare" pushes for is against our morals and values. A government society that FORCES "morals" nomatter how "good' it sounds is not a moral society, it is a dictatorship.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I don't get it. Should we abolish prosecution for capital crimes, lest we succumb to "dictatorship"? After all, prosecuting for murder is "forcing" morals upon the society. Same goes for child molestation. So let's be free and have one giant free for all, that's what you are saying. Duh.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Obamacare is not a good legislation. But the idea that the society MUST have a reasonable way to deliver healthcare to its citizens is a pretty normal and natural idea. After all, we have police, sewage etc. That's part of normal civilized life. Same goes for medical care.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I don't get it. Should we abolish prosecution for capital crimes, lest we succumb to "dictatorship"? After all, prosecuting for murder is "forcing" morals upon the society. Same goes for child molestation. So let's be free and have one giant free for all, that's what you are saying. Duh.
There is a big difference between prosecution for capital crimes, such as murdering an innocent person by some perverted animal, and another thing to force people to do things like pay for what millions see as the murder of innocent human babies/fetus
When a criminal murders someone, or rapes them they are in fact voiding their rights.
It is an entirely different thing to force the morals of some, such as claiming that it is a right to force people to pay for contraception of others
Should we also maybe enforce Sharia law in the U.S.A.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Of course you are... You go ahead and keep living in Canada, we don't need people like you living here and thinking everyone must be like you...
Another Canadian who is "bloody proud" of the red coats and King George... which were keeping the colonists in the New World as slaves through taxes... Who would have thought it?...
Originally posted by buddhasystem
You really felt compelled to bring the loaded issue of abortion rights into this thread, and the reason you did this because you don't have an argument, hence you had to resort to demagoguery.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Dude, this really takes the cake... Outside of the rock you've been living under, humans have certain rights even when convicted by court of law. Here, you just learned something. Free of charge.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
By now it seems that you have a major hangup with contraception. I feel for you.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Jesus H Christ, even more demagoguery!
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Maybe you need to try "cannibalism".
Originally posted by crazyewok
Actually Im not American Im British.
Originally posted by crazyewok
And I will happily live anywere but the USA. On places to live the USA is down there with Russia, China and Iraq as places to live. I have even had a compnay offer me a green card to work in the USA and I turned it down as the thought of being there more than 2 weeks sends shivers down my spine!
Originally posted by crazyewok
As for 200 hundred year ago you know the taxes were to pay for the French and Indian War a decade before where the UK had to step in a save your asses from being invaded by the French and there Native American allies.
Originally posted by crazyewok
O and King george III didnt cause the war it was the UK democraticaly elected parliment!
Originally posted by crazyewok
As for Obama Care can someone explain to me a ignorant brit what it is ? Does everyone get it or just those in work? And is it the employer that pays for it? And if so what amount? Cause it seems poorly thought out.
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The Obamacare employer mandate requires all employers of 50 or more full time workers to purchase the expensive insurance for those employees that Kathleen Sebelius (“The Secretary shall determine”) specifies that they must buy. But that mandate is enforced by a penalty of $2,000 per worker, which may be only 10% of the average cost of family coverage under the Sebelius requirements.
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Obama campaigned in 2008 on a promise that Obamacare would reduce the cost of health insurance by $2,500 for average families. But since Obamacare passed, the cost of an average family policy has already increased by $3,000. That reflects the philosophical problem that so many “progressives” have with math, which they are certain is a fascist conspiracy against working people. (Why must 2 +2 always equal 4? That is just fascist authoritarianism. Why can’t we be flexible so it can sometimes equal 3, or 5?)
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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
And Americans have saved your British arses in World War I and World War II
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Yeah, elected by the rich and the bank of England you mean right?...
Originally posted by crazyewok
And you just pissed on the graves of every UK soldier that fought for freedom! No you did not save anyone in world war I ! Europe was in a stalemate with Germnay on the verge of breaking the US just sped things up.
Originally posted by crazyewok
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As for Obama care it does see very poorly thought out and abit crap. There are certnaily better ways you could of implemneted fairer healthcare. And to be honnest it should be a state run thing anyway as from what I have seen from the USA some states would be better suited to "free" healthcare than others.edit on 22-4-2013 by crazyewok because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Now playing victim?... You pissed on the graves of every American colonist and American who gave his and/or her life for freedom...
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
YOU were the one to start claiming the British saved us, when all you did was try to control us and tax the American colonies without representation, and with unfair taxes...
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
BTW, I didn't write that the U.S. singlehandedly won WWI and WWII, but without our help the wars would have gone the other way and most of Europe would be right now under the German flag, and singing National Socialist hymns...
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Europeans, and other nationals blame everything that happens in the world to the U.S. and when we have had needed help NONE OF YOU gave it FREELY, yet the United States has given help to Europe and other nations FREELY and without asking for any money back.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
We have "free healthcare ran by the government"... It is called Veterans Health Administration, and if you had ever served in the military as I have in the U.S., and had to go to a Veteran hospital, you would know that those are the worse hospitals you could ever find yourself in.
Hospitals in military bases are much better, but Veteran hospitals?...
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Anyway, if "socialised healthcare" was so good, we shouldn't be seeing people from all over the world coming to hospitals in the U.S. because certain treatments and cures are not covered by "socialised healthcare"...
Originally posted by crazyewok
Not really I never said they were cowardly or didnt do anything of merit. It is just im British and will back my British ancestors not American.
Originally posted by crazyewok
World war I no it could of gone both ways. That's what a stalemate means. All the USA did was guaranteed Victory by tipping the balance. Though the allies may have won anyway (Germany Industry was failing). USA just meant the war ended in 1918 not 1920.
Originally posted by crazyewok
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As for the money the US lent the UK we did have to pay it back it wasn't free. We have made payments to the US right up to the end of the 2006 (news.bbc.co.uk...).
Did any European country ever paid back the US for the Marshall Plan?
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The Marshall Plan provided Marshall Aid, which was just that - aid, not a loan or,indeed, any actual transfer of money at all; that's not how Marshall Aid worked.
Each country told USA exactly what it needed - commodities such as raw materials, food, fuel,finished manufactures such as tractors, technical expertise and assistance from American personnel.These were then supplied direct by the USA to each country as required.There was no transfer of cash from the US government to any European (or other) government under the Marshall Plan.
As the purpose of the Marshall Plan was aid to rebuild a Europe shattered by WW2, there was no request or intention of anyone having to repay anything to USA under the Marshall Plan.Further, as part of its purpose was to keep Americans in jobs after WW2 ended,as they were producing things for Europe, it kept the US economy booming at the time, so Europe automatically paid any debt to USA for Marshall Aid this way.
Originally posted by crazyewok
Again stop lumping the UK with the rest of Europe! Apart from Vietnam Britain has been right next to the USA in every major war since world war I and it has provided 1/10 to 1/4 of the manpower and equipment. So again stop pissing on UK lives that have been given right next to your own.
Originally posted by crazyewok
That's pretty sad really and does a dishonour to the veterans.
By Sean Lengell
The Washington Times
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
President Obama’s plan to generate extra budget money by forcing veterans to pay for some medical treatments through their private insurance is generating a firestorm among Republicans, Democrats and veterans, who argue that it’s unconscionable to pass along the costs of war to those injured serving their country.
The administration for weeks has circulated on Capitol Hill a plan to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in savings by tapping veterans’ private insurance for service-related injuries and ailments that for decades the government has been obligated to pay. On Monday, the president and his aides discussed the plan with veterans groups, who said the president told them it would generate $540 million.
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Originally posted by crazyewok
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At the end of the day provision needs to be made for the poor and vunerable in society to receive decent healthcare be that through nationalised Hospitals or simple government grants. And to be honest that descion should be left to your state level.
I never ridiculed them. Standing up to the super power at the time was a brave thing. All IM said was my ancestors would have been fighting on the other side and IM proud of bravery.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
I am an American citizen, and I backed everything the founding fathers and the colonists did to fight back. what did you think I was going to respond to your attempts at ridiculing the colonists fighting back and even having needed some help at first from England?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
But the U.S. helped countries like the UK with money and equipment way before we joined the fight. Without the aid from the U.S. European countries would have run out of money and the equipment necessary to fight the war.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
I am talking about the Marshall Plan. It wasn't a loan, it was aid to rebuild Europe and Japan. That aid, which included equipment, provisions, training, materials, personnel to help with the rebuilding, etc never has to be given back to the U.S.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
I said Europe and other nationals, as in people in other countries. BTW, I wasn't pissing on anyone's lives. .