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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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
and i include "black republicans" in there...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican though, which I always find disappointing... but it was a different time back then and I can’t blame anyone for holding a grudge against Dixiecrats (if that’s even what his rationale was)
and also said "The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right."
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