Posted on 01/31/2006 4:05:36 AM PST by Maria S
I just heard on the news that Mrs. Coretta King has died. Just my personal opinion, but she was a dignified, classy woman who served her country and her late husband's memory quite well.
I am deeply saddened to hear the news of her passing,
but also I'm glad in a way, for years the King Family have blocked all attempts to have a memorial for Dr. King is Washington D.C. even though the money to build such has already been raised.
Perhaps now such a Memorial can be built and placed where we honor our greatest heros.
and maybe for once we can say his dream has come true at least.
Not really. I did nothing to revile her, or her cause. I merely stated the obvious. Black people good, white people bigots.
Bullfeathers. She was a world-class know-nothing biddy who capitalized on her husband's work in a shameless fashion. When I was a kid and first read of MLK's affairs I was disappointed. Then I learned more about his wife after reading some of her syndicated columns. I can't say I can blame the guy. She had all of the warmth of Mary Todd with none of the intelligence.
My thoughts exactly, but watch out! The Thread Nazi will be all over you for deviating from the prevailing saccharine mood!
Rest in Peace Mrs. King. You led your life with Class and Dignity.
May God bless her that she is now at rest from the pain and misery life, which included her husband's rampant adultery and plagarism.
"And that is, that because she was a well known black figure that has passed, many whites are now in a foot race to see who can outdo the other with their praise for a woman that the overwhelming vast majority of them know absolutely nothing about!"
The words "class", "dignity" and "grace" are used to this day to discribe Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She's white, as you know, and she also lived with a married man in her latter years. I think people simply appreciate the fact that both these women were widowes (sp) of great Americans and in the years following their husband's deaths, they lived quiet lives largely away from public view, which is a dignified way to live considering that they could be in front of cameras all the time if they wanted to be.
Prayers and condolences to the King family.
...Mrs. King...
Grieving the loss of one so dear,
always causes us to shed a tear.
You've left this place and gone to a new one,
where you will meet God The Father, who is the Son.
RIP. She was a good woman. The world needs more like her.
May she rest in peace.
What will be worse than the blatant liberal exploitation of Mrs. King's death will be those who say they are conservative doing their own version of the long, sad faces and crocodile tears. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s addressed longstanding grievances of blacks against state sponsored segregation and routine unfairness and nastiness on the part of the white majority, especially in the South. (It is well to remember that the segregated South was solidly Democratic, with the socialistic New Deal and other "big government" movements like Populism having wide audiences in that region.) However, the civil rights movement was the impetus for a massive expansion of Federal power, to the detriment of property rights, freedom of association, and states rights.
For over 40 years. the NAACP and other organizations that came into prominence during the height of the civil rights movement have been staunch supporters of every incremental expansion of Federal power, especially in the social arena. Yet they have also been firm opponents of military strength, foreign policy focused on this nation's interests, and effective punishment of convicted criminals. Affirmative action, sensitivity training, multiculturalism, and "hate crimes" laws are among the long term results of the civil rights movement.
American conservatism is not New Deal and Great Society policies and big government minus abortion rights, pornography on demand, and homosexual "marriage". Rather, it is rooted in the philosophy of limited government and individual liberty embodied in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The civil rights movement became a strong advocate of centralized and unlimited government power, with the goal of radical egalitarianism at the expense of personal freedom. No one who calls himself a conservative should give honor to this movement on the occasion of the death of the wife of its most important leader.
It's unfortunate especially for schools and universities, who would end up having to pay a large royalty fee just to present something as timeless as the "I Have A Dream" speech.
Shame on you.
Shame on you too.
I was fortunate enough to listen to a talk by her in Frankfurt, Germany while I was stationed there back in 1989.
She was quite a woman. God bless her.
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