{"id":17764,"date":"2012-11-01T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17764"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:18:58","slug":"misleading-billboard-mlk-was-a-republican-vote-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17764","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Billboard: MLK Was A Republican. Vote Republican!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS &#8212; This is not the first time we have heard rumors over <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr<\/strong>. being a member of the GOP \u2014 especially around election time.<\/p>\n<p>This go-around, a Black Republican group called Raging Elephants is leading the charge with billboards in Dallas that read, <strong>\u201cMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong> was a Republican. Vote Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the billboards is <strong>Claver Kamau-Imani, <\/strong>head of Raging Elephants. \u201cThe use of <strong>Dr. King<\/strong>, because of him being an icon in the community, we feel would be most effective. That\u2019s why we used it,\u201d says <strong>Kamau-Imani<\/strong>. \u201cWe have the documentation to back the claims we\u2019re making on the billboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the billboards is strategically placed. It looks down on the very street that bears that civil rights icon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS &#8212; This is not the first time we have heard rumors over Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being a member of the GOP \u2014 especially around election time. This go-around, a Black Republican group called Raging Elephants is leading the charge with billboards in Dallas that read, \u201cMartin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}