Republicans have a strange need to focus on an imaged past. The GOP claims that Martin Luther King Jr. was also a Republican. Overlokked is the fact that Rev King wrote in his autobiography that while Goldwater might not be a racist, Goldwater was not above working in tandem with racists. Martin Luther King Jr wrote that men of good conscience could not vote for Goldwater.

Your post actually angered me, because it made me remember that for years Black Republicans have criticized other African-Americans for voting for Democrats. Black Republicans said that Black Democrats were "Staying On The Plantation."

One wonders, aside from Colin Powell and a handful of other Black Republicans, where are the Black Republicans speaking out against Limbaugh, Beck, etc. It is extremely clear that it is the Black Republicans who have a plantation mentality.

Thanks fpr the post.

"The 1960's GOP and today's GOP isn't my great great grandfather's GOP by far."

You ain't just whistlin Dixie there 1849! Sorry, couldn't resist using that old phrase in this context. It popped into my head and made me chuckle given the subject matter.

I saw on Countdown tonight where the Republicans were trying to claim the great Mr. Robinson as one of their own. Olbermann read a fairly long quote from Robinson on the subject that boiled down to this: I've always tried not to identify with a particular political party but the Republicans suck!

Robinson's actual words were classier than my paraphrasing of course. He was nothing if not a straight shooter.

Good post!