And hopefully, someone will read selections of his brilliant poetry.
Posted on 08/22/2014 8:06:29 PM PDT by maggief
(CNN) – The Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Ferguson, Missouri, is preparing for a very big day. Come Monday, the seats will be full of mourners to remember Michael Brown.
The church's special events manager Denise Makey is busy preparing for the largest event the congregation has ever seen, making room for more than 5,000 people.
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The church, led by Rev. Michael Jones, is expecting a huge crowd for the service, which will be public at the request of the Brown family. The details of the program are still being worked out, but the eulogy will be delivered by Rev. Al Sharpton, who has been active in the political action surrounding Brown's death.
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Leader of ISIS wasn’t available to speak?
Stand by for more racial BS.
Is Mikie Brown’s juvi record available to help with the recitation of accomplishments?
Couldn’t get a real Reverend, huh?
And hopefully, someone will read selections of his brilliant poetry.
Friendly Temple ‘bout to make big money, yo.
http://live.stltoday.com/Event/Information_from_Ferguson
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Sharpton and National Action Network paying for Michael Brown’s funeral.#MikeBrown #Ferguson
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Sharpton a key advisor to Obama on Ferguson (reported back directly to Valerie Jarrett)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/08/al-sharpton-white-house-ferguson-liaison-194359.html
And the White House, as the crisis following Brown’s death seemed to flare out of control, worked extensively behind the scenes to maximize The Rev’s doing what he does, using him as both a source of information and a go-between. After huddling with Brown’s family and local community leaders, Sharpton connected directly with White House adviser and First Friend Valerie Jarrett, vacationing in her condo in the exclusive Oak Bluffs section of Martha’s Vineyard, not far from where President Obama and his family were staying. Obama was “horrified” by the images he was seeing on TV, Jarrett told Sharpton, and proceeded to pepper him with questions as she collected information for the president: How bad was the violence? Was it being fueled by outside groups—and could Sharpton do anything to talk them down? What did the Brown family want the White House to do?
It was a heady consultation for Sharpton, who spent years on the outside dreaming of a place in the pantheon of the civil rights leaders he revered as a teenage street preacher in Brooklyn, and it’s an irony lost on no one that his rise to White House adviser has come thanks to Barack Obama, whose restrained personal style couldn’t be any more different from Sharpton’s. If anything, the Ferguson crisis has underscored Sharpton’s role as the national black leader Obama leans on most, a remarkable personal and political transformation for a man once regarded with suspicion and disdain by many in his own party. It’s a status made all the more surprising given that Obama, America’s first black president, ran on a platform of moving beyond the country’s painful racial divisions while Sharpton is the man who once defined those divisions for many Americans.
FLASHBACK:
Someone Must Be Punished for Killing Trayvon Martin, Says Mom Sybrina Fulton
by Allison Samuels Mar 22, 2012 2:04 AM EDT
EXCERPT
The now controversial killing of Trayvon garnered virtually no mainstream media attention in the days immediately after he was fatally shot, but that all changed when the teenager’s parents decided to hire civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and his law firm to get more answers on exactly how and why their son died.
“They called me the same day they were notified that their son was dead,’’ Crump told The Daily Beast. “When I heard their unarmed teenage son was shot to death, I just knew there’d be an arrest shortly. There wasn’t an arrest 48 hours later, and then I knew we’d have to take this outside of Sanford if we wanted justice.’’
Trayvon’s parents were told by the Sanford police that Zimmerman wasn’t arrested in their son’s death because the facts of the case did not dispute his claim of self-defense.
For Crump, taking the Trayvon Martin story outside of Sanford simply entailed dialing up a few well-placed friends such as the Rev. Al Sharpton. Crump worked closely with the civil rights leader in 2006 on another racially charged case—the controversial death of a 14-year-old, African-American inmate of a Florida boot camp.
“I had to call people like Sharpton and a few other black civil rights leaders and the black media to tell them about this story,’’ said Crump. “I had to get them to understand what happened to this young man and what hadn’t happened in his case so they could spread the word.’’
Historically, cases of murder and violence against blacks in the United States rarely have been given the same amount of attention as cases in which the victims of crime are white—and often go unnoticed and unprosecuted.
Just days after hearing the details of Trayvon’s death, Sharpton arranged to have Crump and the teenager’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, on his syndicated radio show and his popular MSNBC show, Politics Nation, to tell their story.
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In the wake of non-stop media attention from the likes of Sharpton and CNN’s Don Lemon concerning the Trayvon Martin case, black media blogs such as MediaTakeOut.com and Huffington Post Black Voices also began publishing accounts and editorials about the Florida case—daily. Almost instantly, readers of all races, ages, and backgrounds began tweeting and posting on Facebook their outrage over how the police have handled the case, and the lack of an arrest in the shooting. To date, almost 1 million people have signed a Change.Org petition to have Zimmerman arrested. In response to the widespread outrage, the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the shooting.
Gee, that kid sure had a lot of friends.
Do they know Sharpton is working for Obama/Holder ?
Sharpton works for his own aggrandizement (and pocket book).
4,992 of the attendants will be from the media
Sharpton is also a tax evader , Obama loves tax evaders
Well of course they will! Something like this, the most accurate depiction of the "unarmed boy" they can find:
Racist Black Man Commits Hate Crime Against Innocent White Police Officer While Trying To Steal His Gun By Force And By Injuring The Police Officer... Meanwhile Racist Blacks, And Hating Liberals With No Sense Of Justice For The Innocent Police Officer Defend The Criminal
Don’t want to hear any more lies about Michael Brown so wanted to post something truthful.
Dear Lord,
I pray at the funeral SOMEBODY with common sense will speak to all the haters in the room and let them know they need to desperately start disciplining their sons and daughters and teach them there are consequences for criminal behavior. AMEN.
I’m really suprised Obama isn’t going to show up for a Selfie with the coffin.
Get ready. It’s gonna be like a Friday after an imam gives a fiery speech.
Gird your loins.
Is Westboro coming?
Are they going to play his (C)rap music?
bttt
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