He was after all a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. He saw how the Republican Party was delibrately playing on the racist attitudes of white southern conservatives in an effort to the take the South away from Democrats. This is what he had to say about conservative Republicans Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater.
"The war has strengthened domestic reaction. It has given the extreme right, the anti-labor, anti-*****, and anti-humanistic forces a weapon of spurious patriotism to galvanize its supporters into reaching for power, right up to the White House. It hopes to use national frustration to take control and restore the America of social insecurity and power for the privileged. When a Hollywood performer [REAGAN], lacking distinction even as an actor can become a leading war hawk candidate for the Presidency, only the irrationalities induced by a war psychosis can explain such a melancholy turn of events."
- Martin Luther King Jr
http://www.aavw.org/special_features/speeches_speech_king03.html
2007-03-21
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