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King's debatable ambiguity on affirmative action was only one issue that Republicans manufacture common cause with him on. Starting with Reagan, Republican presidents slowly and grudgingly have realized that they can wring maximum political mileage out of King's legacy. They have recast him in their image on civil rights, and bent and twisted his oft times public religious Puritanism on morals issues to justify GOP positions in the values wars that they wage with Blacks, Democrats and liberals.
While King can never be considered a political conservative, the snippets of conservative thinking in his musings on the Black family, economic uplift and religious values blend easily with the social conservatism of many Blacks. In the decades after his murder, it has blended just as easily into the OOP's prescription for Black ills. And that evidently is more than enough for Black Republicans to say he'd be a big player on the GOP team.See the full content of this document
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Was Martin Luther King a Republican?
Civil rights leaders, Black Democrats and Maryland lieutenant Governor Michael Steele went ballistic when the they heard a woman in a 60-second radio ad say th...
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