Regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation, most Americans come together today to celebrate a true American icon: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
But there’s one thing the history books won’t tell you — despite being claimed by the Democrats, he was never a member of their political party.
Dr. King was reportedly independent… and some rumors say he was actually a Republican.
That won’t stop the Democrats, however. Despite rain and cold weather, marchers filled several blocks in Washington, D.C. on Saturday as they rallied in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march that was used by organizers to protest against President-elect Donald Trump.
Controversial figure Rev. Al Sharpton had organized Saturday’s “We Shall Not Be Moved” march and rally ahead of Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. But Trump, whose inauguration will take place in less than a week, was clearly on organizer’s minds.
Holding umbrellas and bundled against temperatures in the mid-30s the crowd chanted “No justice, no peace” and “We will not be moved” but also “We will not be Trumped” and “Love Trumps hate.”
Sharpton also used the event to call on marchers to oppose Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, and asked the crowd if they were willing to visit their senators’ offices to oppose the nomination.
As they celebrated King and denounced Republicans in their politically charged march, every single speaker failed to mention that King was nonpartisan.
Despite their claims, King was not a Democrat. In fact, he never publicly endorsed any political candidate, and was known to criticize both political parties for failing the African-American people.
Marchers themselves expressed a range of emotions about Trump. Debra Conyers of East Orange, New Jersey, said she was a toddler in 1963 when Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. She said Obama “helped Wall Street” and “helped Main Street.”
As for Trump: “I’m waiting to see how it unfolds,” she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
No wonder they call them DREAMERS!! Dr. King fought for equality. He did it in a peaceful, non-violent way. He is to be commended and recognized for that effort. Regardless his political affiliation his message was peaceful. THAT isn’t what the Liberal / Democrat / Communists are preaching today. DRAIN the swamp!!!
Agree! Thanks for posting the facts.
JOHN LEWIS IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE MEMORY OF MLK! I am white and remember very well the white trash that killed those precious little girls in church in Birmingham in 1963. I was living in Tupelo, Ms. Lewis is a professional politician who has always made his living without hitting a lick at a snake! He is joining SHARPTON, JACKSON, OBAMA and other wannabe “leaders’ in bringing about a RACE WAR!!
I’m so proud to have MLK in the history of my wonderful America. Since Obama’s divide and conquer administration, and the likes of John Lewis, I don’t feel so enthusiastic. We had the civil war and Reconstruction. Then we had MLK’s peaceful, beautiful civil rights movement. Then Obama deconstructs absolutely everything. Until Obama, I was color blind.
barry DID THAT so his muslims would have an already made organizations to go to for equality and racism and AMERICANS to fight it ! expect his and muslims the he snuck in to use the he!! out of what the blacks are doing right now ! do you see why barry has been on a racist mission.
Our family lived in Ms.when I was growing up. The community where we lived there was no white and no black just poor. Everyone helped everyone and that’s how we survived. I was raised color blind & raised my family the same. Until Obama it remained so but he has made a lot of changes in this country but none of them good. MLK would not approve.
Martin Luther King I believe would roll over in his grave today. John Lewis is a prime example. He has become a hack, living the high political life. Martin Luther King had a dream. The republican president Abraham Lincoln and the proclamation of declaration, all members free. The democrat party could no longer own slaves. A democrat actor John Wilkes BOOTH killed Lincoln. John Lewis has killed the dream of Dr. King and Abraham Lincoln by his sell out
Shame on John Lewis. Dr. King let us not let go of your dream, in spite of the John Lewis Benedict Arnold traitors.
We so desperately need to form TEA PARTY organizations all over every COUNTY & in every state & they all need to be interconnected, to bring only the whole truth to all people, from age 12! Its responses should include: (1) National exposure in all neighborhoods of what is actually going on; (2) Shut down the “takeover bullies” on a regular basis, thru sending millions of bluntly state letters & emails to them; (3) Voting as a conservative block of voters.
By George! They would get it, We The People rule, & they are not taking-over our country!
True if they truthfully want to honor MLK they should stop the violent protest, and the distraction of businesses and shops,.and go back to family and G-d, as it used to be in most black communities.
Obama has done more to hurt the black population and has done more to help the radical islam than anyone else who was president… MLK is probably rolling over in his grave….. If you can look past the half black and half white what has Obama really done for anyone black or white and be honest do not use the color of his skin to fool ya.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
It’s a damn shame to “honor” a man like MLK ! He was nothing but a damn trouble maker and is part of the reason this country is so screwed up now !
He was also a front man for the Communist party: https://tcallenco.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-civil-rights-movement-is-communist.html
Jerre, you are accurate in your assessment! From early 1960’s, more & more inaccuracies have been touted as truth, and those inaccuracies have been used in widespread propaganda. I say, just tell the damned truth! It would turn politicians out & bring statesman in!
MLK – a true man of principal unlike Obozo the “Big Eared” Clown and his minions John Lewis, Maxine Waters and all the “National Black Caucus” phonies.
I agree
Sharpton ought to be asked what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would think of all this rigamarole going on. I don’t think he would be pleased with it at all. Oh, & by the way Dr. King WAS NOT a Dem OR Rep.
Ignorance causing them to dishonor a man who actually did something good for blacks and America. One can only hope some day soon they grow up, get better informed and drop out of the democrat party that has held them on the plantation since its founding in the early 1860’s and even invented the KKK. Now many of them have to know some of that and yet think Sharpton, Wright and Jackson are good men when it has been clear for years that they are just money suckers. To insult a new President at any time is wrong but even Obama is insulting him. All of this means, yes, we did vote in the right candidate! Lewis and his ilk also need to be removed from Congress as agitators and even threatening Trump which is consider a federal offense and he should be in jail along with the 3 Stooges. We can only hope Lewis, Waters, Lee, etc. and the 3 Stooges get their comeuppance asap. Fostering hate, protests, looting, burning means they are nothing and have nothing to offer to help blacks or anyone else in America. Arrest Soros and send him off to Putin, and any others breaking our laws immediately put in jail, and any further nasty protests, looting, burning, killing of police bring down the military and remind them who is boss, and that is we, the other and real Americans. They are causing their own deaths and/or imprisonment, or in olden days when they would be handled right now. By the way on this “march” or any other that leaves trash behind must be stopped to pick it up and put it in trash cans immediately. You make a mess, you clean it up.
“Love Trumps hate.”??? What?
What does Trump hate? Gov’t failures and corruption, why don’t you hate this?
What does Trump hate? Illegal immigration. Did you get that that? ILLEGAL immigration, why don’t you hate ILLEGAL immigration?
What does Trump hate? High corporate taxes, outsourcing jobs outside the US, and high unemployment which ALL contribute towards high crime rates. Why don’t you hate high crime rates, high corporate taxes and high unemployment?
A lot of people need to pull their heads out of their @@@!!!
You said you hate high corps taxes, I hate getting a $4. Increase in my Social Security when closing one ceo tax loophole for 32 ceos, would have given 70 million members of S.S. a $584 badly needed raise , plus with plenty left for a never heard of hefty payback to S.S. for a change. Point is: both parties have been jawboning U.S. ” (say anything and do nothing)” and President Trump is hiring the same OLD lip service, THIS is what bothers me. I move we stop this b.s. This is just my opinion. #POWERTOTHEPEOPLE .
AMEN ! !
Right on Jerre!!! Honoring him is as bad or worse than honoring Jane Fonda !!!
He was a self admitted womanizer, had a mistress in LA for ten years, then told Coretta about her when she was in a recovery room after a hysterectomy! It is common knowledge that he plagiarized his Doctoral thesis, and was called “the biggest liar in America” by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover! He was buddy- buddy with Gus Hall, President of the Communist Party USA! Our great white former Presidents have to share a day, but he gets one all to his worthless racists, rants. Give me Dr. Carson any day! A true black leader the youth can look up to, not a phony minster like Jesse and Al!
I’ve also heard that MLK owned a firearm for self defense.
WHY CANT THEY COME TOGETHER TO MAKE OUR NATION GREAT FOR ALL AMERICANS
Since King has been deified and elevated about Jesus Christ, who is now just another one of those old White guys, who are to be hated and then forgotten, should not we declassify the holy script that the US government is keeping from us so that we can better worship our god?
Jesus was a Jew who was called Rebbe (teacher) by his followers. He was NOT a blond haired, blue eyed European but a semite with dark skin, dark hair, who preached the word of Moses. As a mortal, he suffered excruciating pain (as all children of G-d would in service to the people to obey the rule of He whose name shall be ineffable. Even the Muslims revere Jesus, not as a G-d, but a great prophet.from the lineage of Abraham.
MLK did a lot of good for many people at the time of riots, especially the southern part of the USA. But he was like other great men, whose only downfall was having other women on the side, even though he was married. He also critizied both political parties as useless when it came to civil rights. He was also NOT a democrat as the African American people are told by their leaders.
YES, I AM WHITE, OR A WHITE MAN. I HAVE READ BOOK AFTER BOOK ON MLK. I ADMIRE THIS MAN. BUT, I DON’T THINK
THAT THE REV. AL SHARPTON AND THE REV. MLK. WOULD GET ALONG VERY WELL TOGETHER THEIR THOUGHTS AND
ACTIONS ARE FAR A PART. REV. MLK HEALED THE WOUNDS NOT CUT OPEN NEW WOUNDS. WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME BUS SO, LETS LIVE IN PEACE AND TOGETHER THIS IS OUR LAND LETS MAKE IT A GREAT LAND, TOGETHER.
GO, READ THIS HISTORY ON REV MLK. GET THE REAL FACTS. I HAVE TO HAVE A GREAT MORE ON THIS SUBJECT.
THE HONEST PART OF REV. MLK’S LIFE.
I WOULD THINK THAT ACCORDING THE LITERATURE THAT I HAVE READ ARE FAR A PART IN THEIR THINKING’S AND DOINGS. PROBABLY MOST PEOPLE WOULDN’T AGREE WITH ME BUT, I THINK REV. SHARPTON IS A BUCKET FULL OF HOLES COMPARED TO THE REV. MLK. REV. MLK COULD SEE THE FUTURE IN A VERY GOOD WAY NOT HARM THE FUTURE LIKE REV SHARPTON DOES. WE ALL HAVE GOT TO LIVE TOGETHER IN THE SAME BUS AND PROSPER WELL
TOGETHER. REV. MLK’S BIRTHDAY..HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU..REV MLK.
Rev Jackson was the man that told the killers were and when Martin Luther King would be. That is why today he is a demoKKKrat.
Another great leader in the ‘fight’ for equality was El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, the former Nation of Islam Champion Malcolm X.
Just 2 days before he was murdered ‘by his own people’ (for leaving the Nation of Islam ?) he said about Democrats:
“The democrats are playing you for a Chump, and if you vote for them not only are you a Chump, you are a traitor to your race.”
The Hijacking of the great American legacies of Real Americans like Dr. King is finally coming to an end. The Democrat bill of goods is finally being recognized for what it is. The democrats have Lost OVER 1,030 elected office seats JUST in the last 8 years. In fact the DNC is no longer a National Entity in politics ! ! !
“Those who have lived in the light do not long tolerate the darkness.” Not sure who penned this but it’s the truth.
We the People are finally DONE being Lied To and About.
“I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” John 8:12 (nasb)
I think we can all use a lot more of Martin Luther King Jr and a lot less of Malcolm X.
Too bad the media and the Democrats don’t see it that way.
MLK Jr is one of my few heroes to start with.
And if he looked down and saw how blacks today have pi55ed away all the rights and benefits that he and tons of other brave black people died to give them,,,
he surely would be thoroughly disgusted .
MLK’s arrival on the scene was very timely; it came precisely at the outbreak of the New Age Movement (NAM), and precisely at the time the NAM infiltrated the American mainstream press. Therefore, the radical NAM press USED the MLK movement to create national unrest toward their anti-establishment agenda. I am 83 years old and watched the whole thing happen before my eyes. That’s why the NAACP became Rush Limbaugh’s NAA L CP (L for liberal).
I have heard that many black leaders in the south were against MLK because he got ahead of their own efforts toward a slower, more peaceful civil rights achievement. As it turned out, many white Americans felt that what the liberal press did with MLK was an “in your white face” attempt, creating a lot of resentment which actually hurt MLK’s righteous cause.
The actual truth here is that MLK Day, while it is honorable in itself, is more truly a media event that creates more of an atmosphere conducive to MEDIA opportunity for more coverage of unrest.
The radical liberal media should be forced into balanced coverage.
If Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was still alive today he might stand for the Bible’s take on homosexuality. The black preachers I have heard seem to be more willing to preach against homosexuality than white preachers.
If you look at the time of the Civil Rights movement more Republicans than Democrats worked to enact the Civil Rights laws.
And more Whites than Blacks have worked to put Dr. King’s “I have a dream” idea into practice.
I am an old Man! In the late 1960s I was in a position to see a law in for cement report that said that kings death was a murder for hire. The hikers were his wife and the hear of the Southern Christian Leadership, why. Wife woman on the side and she was about to lose it all.
Abernathy King was taking money donated to the SCL and using it for his personal desires,, women on the side.
KINGS DEATH gave Mrs her life long title WIDOW and a 6 figure income for life.
For Ralph ,he got him top ranking and the money back,
KINGS life produced more good than bad, His Death made him GREAT.
I wonder if MLK ever stopped to think that his dream, though is and was a dream that every human being should have; that the realization of this dream of little boys and girls would cause the need for another dream for equality and freedom for all men? His dream for freedom and equality, that “when little black girls and boys and little white girls and boys would walk down the halls together holding hands as one;” that, when that happened, the result would be this? Black and whites would begin to marry and children would eventual become one color. First, the children of these couples would be bullied and mistreaded as outcast because they are not really white or black. Then eventually, after these children of mixed races continue in generations to come, there will b no distinctive black or white. The true black African American will disappear. The true Caucasion American will disappear. Our future generations, who are now being referred to as mixed races, will be the result of an alteration of a new race of people. The African American nor the Caucasion will exist. Replaced by the new “Mixed Race”.
I believe his (MLK’s) heart, was so caught up in the race inequality, that he didn’t realize he was fighting for his own race to become extinct.
I write this for all Grand Mothers, black and white, who have grandchildren who are being discrimated against, simply because they are neither black nor white. But a new race being forced upon them by their parents who see no color, that part good; because noone should be treated differently because of the color of their skin. However, their beautiful children are experiencing a new discrimanation never before experienced in America. (Only in rare instances). Our children that we have taught in the last 2 generations in school, see no color even in marriage, are now birthing this new mixed race of children who are being bullied and discrimated against every day in the class room because they are neither black or white.
I do not believe that is what MLK intended. He wanted equality for blacks and whites which has been realized for the most part. However, until the whites and blacks born in America since the days of 1920’s until now are deceased, this new discrimation will live.
America for the most part has realized MLK’s dream, however, this important realization has created another dream for America; another question for America. Possibly another fight for three or more generations to come. What is that discrimination? Discrimation against children who are neither white nor black. I don’t think Dr King intented for another discrimation to rise it’s ugly head. Yet it has.
God created one couple with DNA in them that would somehow create many races.
And it has happened. How? I can’t tell you, however, can we also say that this was in the plan of God? I Haven’t found it in His Word.
” Just, do unto others as YOU would have them do unto you.” And “love thy neighbor as thyself”. I have tried to live my life accordingly while believing that AS HE created us, so should we stay. If I am white, my mate should be white, birthing White children as God created me. If I am black, my mate should be black, birthing Black children. Thereby, accepting whites and blacks equally living together in peace, no discrimating one against another, yet not crossing the marriage bounds, or having sex with another race thereby creating the possibility of a mixed child to be bullied and discriminated against. This had not ought to be. Jesus came and died so all men might be saved and live together in peace. I have friends of many nationalities AND RACES, all varying a little in appearance. I love, Honor and respect each man and woman, Boy and girl and show no disrespect of color. I treat them equal. Jesus died for us all. My heart’s desire is to please the Father. I only see color when it comes to marriage and or having children outside of your race.
This is my understanding AND if I am wrong, my heavenly Father will reveal it to me in His Word, in His time. If I have a mixed race child, will I love it like my other grandchildren? You bet I would. I am open to new revelation and loving my neighbor as myself. I have friends of other races than me in my home and honor and respect them because I know who they are inside. The outside is only temporary, but is the outside God gave me through my race and I pray with all my heart that my seed will remain in my race for reproducing children which has nothing to do with my being prejudice. I love all people, great and small, my race or not, and looking forward to living together forever in Heaven where all of His children will go when this life is over. Race or color of skin has no place in Heaven. Only Children of God, whatever color our skin was on earth will make no difference. We shall be like Him. There will be no reproduction in Heaven. Just those who have made themself ready and have had their sin covered by the blood of the Lamb of God who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Thanks for reading.
Be blessed by the Blesser.
I’m retired, so I can’t possibly celebrate MLK Day as I’m sure the great doctor would have preferred: by working. I used to do that when I worked for the Mississippi State Department of Health: I’d work on the holiday and not even claim comp time for a day off at some later date — all in his memory.
Today’s fake worshipers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will take the day off and spend it trying to discover some new method of getting more benefits while providing less work. I suspect that if he were alive today Dr. King would label people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as obamanations to the movement he inspired. Both of those so called men have made careers out of turning Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech on its head — substituting color for character, and vice versa.
The students of THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN are the only black people that know that white people will never accept black people as real Americans. There is nearly 50 million black people in America which makes us a Nation living within a Nation. The time has come for black people to separate themselves from the children of our former slave masters and we must unite as one people and start doing things for ourselves like other intelligent people are doing. For all the so-called Negroes that want to live with our open enemy then let them do so. white people made a beggar out of MLK by making him beg for the things that they united together and done for themselves. Once black people unite together this will bring in the TRUE kingdom of GOD the one that JESUS said was to come to this earth. It’s on it’s way for all the people that want to live a righteous life BY DOING UNTO OTHER AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. PEACE B 2 U.
Wo ! The blind leading the blind into the ditch.
“QUOTE” Racial Profiling for the twentieth century” “We must realize that our part most powerful weapon is racial tension by pounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppresses by whites. We will endeavor to instill in whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the negroes. We will aid negroes in prominence in every walk of life. In the professions, in the world of sports, and entertainment. With this prestige the negroes will be able to marry with the whites, and begin the process which will deliver America to our cause.” This is a matter of “PUBLIC RECORD” in June 7th 1957 MLK was used for this purpose, he was neither a good American nor a good preacher, and a LOUSY “Baptist” This man never told one soul of all he had on the tv how to be saved etc and yet he was used in the above! I do not support this man or any day to honor him or what he stood for! CROOKED!