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Page 14 January 18, 2018 EL SEGUNDO HERALD
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By Cristian Vasquez
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
it is appropriate to address a lie floating around
the past couple of years. Some conservatives
have taken it upon themselves to proclaim that
Dr. King was a Republican. Stop it, people.
That is a lie. It is wishful thinking on behalf of
a group that, much like liberals, doesn’t have
a squeaky-clean record on civil rights -- but
who unlike liberals has done more to hinder
the spread and protection of civil rights than
to ensure them.
In a 1958 speech at Bennett College in
Greensboro, N.C. Dr. King himself stated he
was neither Republican nor Democrat. To use
the man’s exact words, “I am not a politician.
I have no political ambition. I don’t think the
Republican Party is a party full of the almighty
God, nor is the Democratic Party -- they
both have weaknesses. I am not inextricably
bound to either party.” Yet, conservatives love
to label the man a Republican. You don’t get
to rewrite history to excuse your ideological
flaws from the present and past. It’s a lie. You
are wrong. So once more, just stop. There
is evidence that Dr. King’s father, like most
African Americans of the time, voted in favor
of the Republican Party. However, there is no
evidence of the man himself supporting said
party. So, much like when conservatives want
people to stop bringing up slavery because
they had nothing to do with it, conservatives
should stop using Dr. King’s father’s voting
habits to identify the civil rights leader under
a false political label.
In addition, the pathetic attempt to rewrite
the past includes the constant reminder by
conservatives that the Democratic Party is
responsible for the KKK and segregation. And
for once, they got a fact right. However, their
selective memory keeps them from mentioning
that this was a conservative Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party was the conservative
party of the past. This is a fact that can’t
be ignored. Conservatives jumped from the
Democratic Party to the Republican Party
during the 1960s and 1970s. The Democrats’
ties to the KKK can’t be ignored, but neither
should the hate-group’s birth in conservatism.
It is disgusting for anyone to deflect the role
of conservatism in birthing the KKK for
political gain, and it takes a complete lack
of human decency to purposely distort these
facts for political gain.
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael
Schwerner are names we should never
forget. They were murdered because of their
dedication to fighting against racial injustices.
These men were executed by conservative
Klansmen dedicated the preservation of white
supremacy. When the laws shifted to provide
that equal protection under the law, these same
conservatives jumped to the Republican Party.
The most notable conservative to abandon the
Democratic Party because of his opposition
to civil rights: Strom Thurmond.
Thurmond represented everything wrong
with conservatism and when his Democratic
Party supported legislation to promote civil
rights, he defected. So when sharing out nation’s
history, don’t make up things such as Dr.
King being Republican and don’t omit facts
such as Democrats used to be the conservatives
when the party gave birth to the KKK.
It would be no different than if I sat here
and claimed that Thurmond was a liberal. •
Don’t Let President Trump’s Poor Choice
of Words Obscure Immigration Reality
By Duane Plank
Wow, the left wing media went into meltdown
mode last week when it was leaked that
President Donald Trump had apparently used
some coarse language when speaking during
what was supposed to be a private, closed-door
session with members of Congress ruminating
over the DACA situation.
Trump initially denied commenting about the
immigration status of s--hole countries located
in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean,
though at least two people in the meeting said
he did use the derogatory phrase while trying
to fix our broken-down immigration system.
Trump would rather see legal immigrants
invade our borders from thriving countries like
Norway than from third-world enclaves such
as Haiti. Gee, what a dumb, racist thought,
right? America should continue to allow in,
many times illegally, the most poorly educated
folks from allegedly developing countries
-- many who have no discernible skills and
dodgy histories in their homeland.
Then once the immigrant invades America,
allow said immigrants to play tag with their
alleged relatives … and through the idiotic
leftist chain migration program, export a bunch
of people not fit to be here and oftentimes
exploit our lefty social services and raid our
financial coffers.
When was it decided, and by whom, that
Americans do not have the right decide whom
we allow to enter our country? Would you really
rather import a horde of people who barely
speak English, may not be all that educated,
and may lack the job skills necessary to thrive
(not just survive on the dole) in America? Or
allow in (even recruit) men and women who
speak English, are well-educated, and possess
the skills -- whether technical or so-called “blue
collar” -- that our country needs?
The lefties and their lock-step media buddies
will trot out the same excuses for letting darn
near anyone who wants to call America home to
land here. We are all immigrants, they thunder.
If we don’t let immigrants in, who will man the
jobs that Americans won’t do? Yada, yada. And
they automatically brand as racist those who
don’t agree with their jaded way of thinking.
So, the blathering talking heads in the southpaw
media went full bore at the president,
excoriating him for what were supposed to be
private thoughts leaked by deep-staters with
their own agenda, privy to the DACA meeting.
Trump is not the first president to evince salty
language. As we learned during the Washington.
cover-up the Watergate scandal devolved into,
California’s own “Tricky Dick” Nixon threw
the F-bomb around like a drunken sailor on
shore leave. And Southern gentleman Lyndon
B. Johnson spewed colorful language when
dealing with the post-JFK assassination challenges
like, oh, the Vietnam War, or the revolt
that permeated America as the flower-power
pot-heads and other 1960s unemployed resistors
created mayhem in the streets, chanting, “Hey,
hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”
Point is: Don’t let Trump’s ignorant choice
of words, in what was supposed to be a closeddoor,
private meeting, obscure the fact that we
need to get the grip on whom we are allowing
into our best-as-it-gets country. •