MLK Didn’t Publicly Affiliate With Either Political Party

On January 18th, 2021, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Lavern Spicer Tweeted that “Martin Luther King was a Republican & not a Democrat.” She followed this up by saying that “If Dr. King was alive today, he’d be a Trump supporter just like his niece.”

This Tweet was retweeted almost 300 times, and many more people replied to the Tweet to discuss it. Most of the replies and retweets strongly disagreed with Lavern Spicer, noting that “Republicans of the 60s are not the Republicans of today.” One user suggested to “Kill this idea with fire.”