Why did MLK Jr speak out against the Republican Party?

Question

Could it be because he saw the beginning of the GOP's racist CONSERVATIVE Southern Strategy to win the South from Dems?
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"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. The "best man" at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.

"It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States. In foreign policy Mr. Goldwater advocated a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism, and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represented an unrealistic conservatism that was totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century. The issue of poverty compelled the attention of all citizens of our country. Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal."
- MLK Jr, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_23.htm

"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, Domestic Impact of War, Nov 1967
http://www.aavw.org/special_features/speeches_speech_king03.html

FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE FOR WHATEVER REASON THAT REAGAN WAS BORN IN 1980 (AND THEREFORE MLK COULDN'T HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT REAGAN BECAUSE HE WAS MURDERED IN APRIL 1968):

"A TIME FOR CHOOSING" WAS A SPEECH REAGAN SPOKE ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS IN SUPPORT OF CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN BARRY GOLDWATER'S CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT. THIS WAS BACK IN 1964. IT MADE HIM A NATIONAL FIGURE AND LED TO TALK ABOUT HIM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 1968. THE CAMPAIGN TO WIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT BEGAN THE YEAR PRIOR IN 1967.

micheals,

I wouldn't go so far as saying all Republicans were against what you stated. It's not a matter of party, but a matter of ideology. Prior to 1964, there was still a strong northeastern liberal wing in the Republican Party. This liberal wing of the Party was responsible for Radical Republicans of Lincoln, the Progressive Republicans of Theodore Roosevelt, and the Liberal Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller (you know the type of Republican who actually voted for the civil rights act of 1964, not the southern conservative type of today).

Answer 1

The party itself while in the days of Lincoln sought to abolish slavery, really did nothing in terms of ending Jim Crow and supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960's. Southern Democrats who were still in favor of Jim Crow and segregation left the party in droves because of its support for equality for blacks and support of the voting rights and the civil rights laws and joined the Republican party en masse.

Answer 2

King, maximum forget at present, replaced right into a procedures-left in his politics. that is trouble-free to look back and phone streets and holiday trips after the guy, and a few of that acclaim could be earned, yet MLK actually had some outrageous ideals, too. In his day, there have been many rumors approximately his relationship with the Communist occasion. it style of feels not likely that he would have been a member, in spite of the undeniable fact that it incredibly is properly universal that he did paintings which includes Communists, socialists, and different radicals at that ingredient. So, it won't be any marvel that he replaced into serious of people who opposed socialism.

Answer 3

Because Republicans have been against every civil and social rights issue in at least the century, including those concerning African Americans: voting rights for women and blacks, labor laws, child labor laws, unions, equal rights act, handicapped rights, woman's right to choose, etc etc. For a black to vote republican, he would need to be totally ignorant of history to do so.

Answer 4

Basically, MLK was a socialist, and he didn't like the free-market mindset of Goldwater and Reagan. MLK's ideals about race may have been non-violent, but his economic policies were flawed. It was the '60's, and a lot of people were still attracted to socialism. Perhaps people hadn't seen how much damage had been done in the Soviet Union then.

Today, if MLK were still around, I hope he would have realized the errors of his economic ideas.

Answer 5

"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"

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INCREDIBLE 40 Years ago.

Im going to use this to ask a question if you don't mind.

Answer 6

Because the Democrats are a bunch of b*tt-kissers; they want any and all votes they can muster.

Answer 7

He was a trouble maker!