Posted on 02/07/2006 6:55:05 AM PST by katieanna
LITHONIA, Ga. - Shivering in near-freezing temperatures, thousands of people waited hours in line Tuesday for one last chance to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King before her funeral.
"There's one word to describe going to go see Coretta — historic. It's good to finally see her at peace," said Robert Jackson, a 34-year-old financial consultant from Atlanta whose 10-year-old daughter, Ebony, persuaded him to take her to the visitation.
The lines had already started forming by 3 a.m. By the time the doors opened at 6:30 a.m., people toward the end were warned that if they stayed in line they likely wouldn't get into the funeral because of long lines that were already forming there.
An estimated 10,000 people, including four U.S. presidents, were expected to attend the midday funeral at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where King's daughter Bernice is a minister.
But it's GREAT!
The more people see President Clinton and Hillary togather, the more they are contrasted. Hillary is no Bill, so to speak.
She will NOT win the Presidency. Period.
I pray you are right!!!
He should've stuck his foot out.
"...they talk black they act black and they think they are black."
Like in "the Jerk."
Thank you. I appreciate it. I have wanted to see what he said because I turned it on after he spoke.
Our W is a man of honor, his words were words of love and comfort........unlike those who followed.........it became a funerally after that. Sad, sad day for Coretta and her family. Sad indeed.
It had turned into the Springer show by the time I tuned in.
G.W. was bashed big time by blacks at the euology. What an idiot for showing up there. As usual G.W. continues to be the punching bag for the left and does nothing about it.
Listen to Michael Savage discuss the Bush bashing.
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Are there any happy and satisfied "African American's in this country? Are there any that aren't always PO'd and blaming "the man" for all their "troubles"?
Will they ever get over having been slaves more than 140 years ago? Will they ever have enough "civil rights"? When will the rhetoric of perpetual victimhood stop?
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Or maybe he just showed up for a rope a dope. You know W has a tendancy to do that.
Buffalo News
Commercialism mars King legacy
2/4/2006
By LEONARD PITTS
I interviewed Coretta Scott King once. It cost $5,000.
In 1985, I approached the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta seeking that interview and permission to use old audio of Coretta's husband for a radio documentary. I was told it would cost five grand for the audio rights, and it was made clear that unless that money was paid, there would be no interview.
The ethical constraints of a radio production house are different from those of a news organization; we made the deal. I didn't like it, but I rationalized it by telling myself it was an honor to contribute to the upkeep of a legendary legacy.
Amazing what you can make yourself believe.
Coretta Scott King died this week, five months after suffering a heart attack and stroke. She is being widely and lavishly eulogized. "A remarkable and courageous woman," said the president. "A staunch freedom fighter," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
The praise is deserved. There was majesty and grace in Coretta Scott King, a strength of heart that was displayed nowhere more clearly than at her husband's death. Like Jacqueline Kennedy before her, she mourned inconceivable loss with awesome dignity. Since then, she has been a tireless defender of the dream her husband articulated in August of 1963.
She shielded it against racism, pessimism and defeatism. She was less successful against commercialism.
And I don't mean the piddling $5,000. That's a small symptom of the larger malady. I refer you to the King family's 1993 lawsuit against USA Today for reprinting the "I Have A Dream" speech and their subsequent licensing of King's image and voice for use in television commercials, one of which placed him between Homer Simpson and Kermit the Frog. Then there's the attempt to sell his personal papers for $20 million. Perhaps most galling was the family's demand to be paid to allow construction of a King monument on the Washington Mall.
Yes, it's all legal. But if Dr. King's life taught us nothing else, it taught us that legality and morality are not necessarily the same.
I don't mind the King family making money. But not at the cost of Martin Luther King's dignity. Granted, dignity is subjective, and you might draw the line in a different place than I. But I suspect most of us would agree that when a martyr, minister and American hero becomes a TV character hawking cell phones with Homer Simpson, that line has been well and truly crossed.
Coretta Scott King founded the King Center, and it has always been controlled by the family. So it seems plain that she approved this money-grubbing or at least tolerated it. And as a result, her kids have lost their minds.
Particularly the sons, Martin III and Dexter, recently seen publicly feuding over which one will have the six-figure job of running the King Center. Meantime, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us the facility is in need of $11 million in repairs and that $4.2 million of center money has been paid since 2000 to a company Dexter owns. This would be the same Dexter who, in 1995, visited Graceland for tips on how to exploit his father's image as Lisa Marie Presley has exploited her father's.
Martin Luther King, it seems necessary to say, was not Elvis Presley. He was a man who stood for something and died for something. That something was not profit. That something belonged to all of us. One wonders if the loss of their mother will shock his children into understanding this.
I'd like to think so. But had you visited the King Center Web site three days after Coretta died looking for a tribute, here's what you'd have found: a press release, a quote from Dr. King, and a request for money. "Make an online donation in loving memory," it said.
You can do it if you want. Me, I gave at the office.
I just heard audio clips of Kim-Jong il's commie buddy Jimmah Carter's snide reference to the wire-tapping of the Kings, which he meant as a snide remark to what President Bush has been doing lately. This idiot Carter will ALWAYS be known as an embarrasment to the Presidency, and obviously still doesn't get it, even after almost 26 years, why the majority of voters in this country smacked his hayseed butt out of office and elected a more honorable man in President Reagan instead.
Bush Family: Class
Carter & Clintons: Crass
At least Cindy Sheehan didn't embarass herself further and show up for the funeral. I would have expected her to set up camp near Interstate 20 for the passers-by and draw more attention to her worthless cause!
I symphatize with you- I figured the radio AM stations here would be doing the same thing, so I listened to Rush via the internet stream from KFI 640 in Los Angeles.
Secty. of State Condoleezza Rice
SC Justice Clarence Thomas
Colin Powell
MD Lt. Gov. Steele
Alan Keyes
Thomas Sowell
For starters.....
I worked in downtown Baltimore which was under martial law!
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