Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Republican

Yesterday my wife Emily and I drove up to visit Thomas Jefferson’s homstead Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, about three and half hours northwest of Wake Forest. On the way on I-95 (or was it I-85…can’t remember) I noticed the following billboard: “Martin Luther King Jr. Was a REPUBLICAN.” See the picture below which I grabbed from another blog which points to the controversy this loaded billboard has stirred up. Whether Martin Luther King Jr. was actually a republican or not does interest me as much as the fact that the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) has employed the iconic African-American to combat the candidacy of Obama, leaving the black voter with the question, “Which black icon are you going to side with, Obama or MLK?” To the NBRA, the answer is obvious.