People just literally don't know They've erased the 60s and 70s, despite the incredible amount of mass media documentation of the era, completely in their mindshttps://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1340639243891322884 …
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The irony here is that these Black conservatives -- their publications and op-eds and speeches -- were largely forgotten by history because the passage of the Civil Rights Act proved them wrong But then white historians took their words and put them in MLK's mouth
MLK wasn't a registered Republican, never voted for a Republican, according to his wife, spoke out in a presidential campaign for the only time in his life *against* a Republican (Barry Goldwater) But today's GOP have made a meme out of "MLK was a Republican"
Because there were Black Republican loyalists who *opposed MLK and the Civil Rights movement* (his dad, MLK Sr., talked about having been one of them before JFK stood up for his son and got him out of prison)
And in a shockingly perverse revisionism they've made a composite character out of the actual person Martin Luther King, Jr. and his most outspoken opponents within the Black community The person they imagine MLK to be would've been a concern troll against the bus boycotts
If only MLK had written something to clarify his position, a letter perhaps while he was incarcerated for a brief period....
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