Posted on 12/20/2005 3:08:07 PM PST by TFFKAMM
Mourners overflowed a church Tuesday for the funeral of executed murderer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams, listening to eulogies by hip-hop star Snoop Dogg and Rev. Jesse Jackson and a recording of Williams urging peace.
As police watched, mourners including gang members flashing hand signs gathered at the 1,500-seat Bethel AME Church in South Los Angeles and in a parking lot where a TV showed the funeral for Williams, who was executed Dec. 13 despite a celebrity-studded campaign for clemency.
Snoop Dogg recited a poem, "Until We Meet Again," in which he referred to the execution.
"It's nine-fifteen on twelve-thirteen and another black king will be taken from the scene," he said. A stanza that stated, "I don't believe Stan did it," drew wild applause in the parking lot.
Jackson said that at the end Williams saw himself as a "healer, not a predator," and a message recorded by the condemned man in prison was played for the mourners.
"The war within me is over. I battled my demons and I was triumphant," Williams said on the tape, in which he asked listeners to spread a message to loved ones.
"Teach them how to avoid our destructive footsteps. Teach them to strive for higher education. Teach them to promote peace and teach them to focus on rebuilding the neighborhoods that you, others and I helped to destroy," he said...
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His execution, and that of many more on death row, will probably do more to avoid his destructive ways than anything else he did.
That is beautiful. What an excellent example of hypocrisy taken to the extreme. Clinton the master.
THAT, for sure, is the Klintoon Legacy .... phoney, phoney, phoney....
Well, I guess that means that we shouldn't have executed him, since his own self-perception had changed. /sarc
Never mind, that the 4 people he killed are still dead. Hey Jesse, President Bush perceives himself as defending the USA. Are you going to now become a supporter of him?
Something to top the gay video greeting at Elton's wedding.
No, Tookie had help writing it and used some two syllable words. No one was there to help them read.
Callous.... but very, VERY FUNNY!
They were afraid they'd be robbed and shot afterwards.
Jerks.
Unfortunately, people like them consider the only 'mistake' to be leaving any witnesses alive to testify, and that includes fellow gang-banger thug killers. Tookie wished he'd left no one around him alive, I'm sure......
How did Bill Clinton, our "first black President", manage to miss this opportunity to commune with the dregs of America?
The mistake was that he got caught.
You mean, Slick Willy wasn't there?
He must have had a "prior engagement" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink!)
Is that a throng or "Thong"?
I wonder how many of these celebrities attended the victims' funerals?
My mother would have said, "Good riddance to bad rubbish." Mother had a way with words.
The only good to come out of this mess is that the murderer is finally dead after all the years of being supported by the tax payers.
He's too busy celebrating the marriage of Sir John and Lady? Elton John.
"another black king will be taken from the scene,"
A black king? The man is a murderer who founded a gang that has killed thousands. I'm amazed anyone could see him as someone to look up to. I think MLK would be rolling over in his grave if he saw what passed for a black hero these days.
It's nine-fifteen on twelve-thirteen and another black king will be taken from the scene," he said. A stanza that stated, "I don't believe Stan did it," drew wild applause in the parking lot.
So if Stan wasn't the one to blame
Why did he laugh about the victim who was slain
The noise he made as he fought for life
The father who would never again see his children or wife
You can paint this thug out to be a hero to all
But in the end Stan "tookie" Williams was nothing like that, nothing at all.....
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