Post by 911I don't give a shit. I didn't even know she existed until she died and
neither did most of America including you. That still doesn't excuse Jimmy
Carter from exploiting her at her funeral.
That you never heard of her speaks volumes. Not only was she not
"exploited" - her service and the words said on her behalf were a
celebaration of her life - a life spent as an activist speaking truth to
power, just like her husband. In other words - you don't know jack about
shit - and jack just left. You have no right and no credibility to comment
on whether what was said at Corretta King's funeral was appropriate or not.
The people attending stood and applauded, and her family more than approved.
Their opinion counts. Yours doesn't.
Here's what Martin Luther King himself had to say at a funeral for some
murdered children a few decades ago:
http://www.africanamericans.com/MLKjrEulogy.htm
"These children -- unoffending, innocent, and beautiful -- were the victims
of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against
humanity. And yet they died nobly. They are the martyred heroines of a holy
crusade for freedom and human dignity.
"And so this afternoon, in a real sense, they have something to say to each
of us in their death. They have something to say to every minister of the
gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained-glass
windows. They have something to say to every politician who has fed his
constituents with the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism.
They have something to say to a federal government that has compromised with
the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats and the blatant hypocrisy
of right-wing northern Republicans. They have something to say to every
Negro (Yeah) who has passively accepted the evil system of segregation and
who has stood on the sidelines in a mighty struggle for justice. They say to
each of us, black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for
caution. They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who
murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which
produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work
passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American dream ...
"And so I stand here to say this afternoon to all assembled here, that in
spite of the darkness of this hour, we must not despair. We must not become
bitter, nor must we harbor the desire to retaliate with violence. No, we
must not lose faith in our white brothers. Somehow we must believe that the
most misguided among them can learn to respect the dignity and the worth of
all human personality."
-Martin Luther King, September 18, 1963
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JW
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"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have
you left no sense of decency?"
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html