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Wednesday, February 08, 2006



Coretta Scott King:  Rest In Peace

UPDATE: Well that didn't take long. But rather than old white men, it's an old white woman of the far-right wing of the Republican party telling black leaders to mind their place.

At the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the grande dame of America's civil rights and progressive activist community, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, a revered elder of that same community, criticized President Bush, and the war, and the fact that America still has so many poor and needy. Kind of something you'd expect at the funeral of a woman who after her husband was assassinated, yet the day before he was buried, led a civil rights march of 50,000 people. A woman who spoke at an anti-war rally in NYC only 3 weeks after her husband was mattered. A woman who devoted her entire life to non-violence.

I say this because you know it's only a matter of hours before the Republican Swift Boating of Rev. Lowery and Coretta's funeral begins. How dare a black man not know his place at a funeral, they'll say. As if the Republican party and its surrogates have any right whatsoever to speak on behalf of Mrs. King, to tell black America what they can and cannot do to honor one of their most revered leaders.

A party that doesn't have a single African-American member of Congress has no right lecturing black people about knowing their place.

And you know that lecture they will.

They'll be all over Coretta and Lowery, with the help of the media they'll trivialize her funeral, her death, the honor being paid to her, by claiming her funeral was all a big stunt, a big act, one big political opportunity for the Democrats to abuse a poor old dead woman, they'll say.

Just watched the "Snappy" O'Beirne video. She now thinks Jimmy Carter is as bad an ex-President as he was a President. All that curing the sick, housing the homeless, negotiating treaties, and monitoring elections - yeah, the guy's been a disgrace. He should have just whored himself out for corporate get-togethers like her hero did.

Add that to thinking it's disgraceful to talk about politics, civil rights, and injustice at the funeral of a woman who lived these things all her life. I can honestly say, as a white guy largely ignorant of such things, that there's no woman who symbolized the black civil rights movement for folks like me than Coretta Scott King.

Just how shallow do you have to be to make a living as a pundit? I'd think that at least some knowledge of one's culture would be required.  Oh yes. The wingnut freeper contigency is howling how "Liberal have no respect for the dead". It's obvious that they love the dead, they've created so many of them recently.

Maybe they thought that Chimpy McFlight should have been cut some slack, since he attends so few funerals. We shouldn't spoil it for him.

I think former President Clinton said it best yesterday:
"Her children, we know they have to bear the burden of their mother and father's legacy," Clinton told the crowd. "We clap for that, but they have to go home and live it." He challenged the mourners. "You want to treat our friend Coretta like a role model? Then model her behavior."
The best way to honor Mrs. King is to live by her example. Speak truth to power. Be kind to those who need a helping hand, and stand up for what you believe to be the right thing, even when that act of standing is difficult in the face of overwhelming odds.

One voice -- one single, solitary voice -- speaking truth into the darkness can become a beacon for the entire world. Dr. and Mrs. King were such lights. Such courage and insight is difficult to find, and although we may never see their like again, we should be that change we wish to see. And in doing so, we honor all those who have walked the long march before us in the name of liberty and freedom.

Jeff Greenfield reported how the GOP trash the Democrats and the furneral worked.

Jeff Greenfield on CNN this morning explained clearly how it worked. He pointed out that Drudge had the whining up on his website before the service was even finished. Hannity and Limbaugh then picked it up. Kate OBeirne then whined on MSNBC with Tweety. That's how the story was developed.

Mehlman and Rove are laughing all the way to the polls: "angry, disrespectful Democrats trash dignified funeral!"

Behold, the Mighty Wurlitzer, in all its gorey.

"The love, the respect and the honor for Mrs. King shines through in so many of the faces and the words."

And then there's the petulant moron and his Stepford Wife - the contrast was amazing.


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