GOP claims Jackie Robinson as one its own
October 14th, 2009 at 07:54am Pat Cunningham
 
 The Republican Party’s efforts to create a veneer of diversity in its ranks often are awkward and sometimes flirt with falsity.
 Take, for example, the new GOP Web site on which it is claimed that Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player, was a Republican loyalist.
 Robinson’s own words, as we see HERE, cast profound qualifications on his purported Republicanism.
 POSTSCRIPT: This episode brings to mind the CLAIM made last year by certain folks that Martin Luther King Jr., of all people, also was a Republican.
 And then, of course, there’s the question of whether Abraham Lincoln, who actually was a Republican, would feel at home in today’s GOP. But that’s a subject for another day.
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1. joe | October 14th, 2009 at 8:36 am
“By and large Republicans had ignored blacks and sometimes handpicked a few servile leaders in the black community to be their token “niggers.” How would I sound trying to go all out to sell Republicans to black people? They’re not buying. They know better.”
I think Jackie Robinson nailed it above. I wonder if he ever considered that post death the gop would use him as propaganda.
2. Richard | October 14th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Joe……do you have a clue about History?
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