You see this shit posted all over the Internet. MLK was a Republican. The Democratic Party founded KKK. Just the other day, when Democrats spoke about voter suppression measures in the SAVE act, Ted Cruz chimed in to screech about the KKK past of the Democratic Party. Cuz Robert Byrd. Wood below is cunting something about SPLC and KKK.
Jackie Roberson was indeed a Republican. He personally campaigned for Nixon in 1960. He came from a Republican family. His parents gave him the middle name Roosevelt in honor of Teddy Roosevelt. Later he became a staunchly supporter for Republican New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
He attended the 1964 Republican National Convention as a delegate for Rockefeller where he witnessed the party's pivot to the southern segregationists later dubbed "southern strategy." He wrote in his biography,
A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind-the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
On the convention floor, he and other black delegates experienced abuse.
I now believe I know how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany