TEXAS — This is not the first time we have heard rumors over Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being a member of the GOP — especially around election time.

This go-around, a Black Republican group called Raging Elephants is leading the charge with billboards in Dallas that read, “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Vote Republican.”

The man behind the billboards is Claver Kamau-Imani, head of Raging Elephants. “The use of Dr. King, because of him being an icon in the community, we feel would be most effective. That’s why we used it,” says Kamau-Imani. “We have the documentation to back the claims we’re making on the billboard.”

One of the billboards is strategically placed. It looks down on the very street that bears that civil rights icon’s name. There are others mostly located in Black communities in Dallas, Houston and Austin. The hope is that the billboards will get some Blacks to consider voting Republican this November.