Posted on 09/04/2018 3:22:46 AM PDT by SkyPilot
The late Aretha Franklins family said Monday that it found an Atlanta pastors eulogy delivered at the Queen of Souls funeral last week to be offensive and distasteful.
The eulogist, the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr., was criticized for a political address that described children being in a home without a father as abortion after birth and said black lives do not matter unless blacks stop killing each other. Franklins funeral was on Friday.
He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogize her, said Vaughn Franklin, the late singers nephew, who said he was delivering a statement for the family.
Franklin said that his aunt never asked Williams to eulogize her, since she didnt talk about plans for her own funeral. The family selected Williams because he has spoken at other family memorials in the past, most prominently at the funeral for Franklins father, minister and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin, 34 years ago.
Williams has not backed down from anything he said at the funeral, and said he respects the familys opinion. I understand it, he said. I regret it. But Im sorry they feel that way.
Besides a social media uproar, Williams heard resistance at the funeral itself. Singer Stevie Wonder yelled out black lives matter after the pastor said, No, black lives do not matter during his eulogy.
Williams had minimized the Black Lives Matter movement because of black-on-black crime. Black lives must not matter until black people start respecting black lives and stop killing ourselves.
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Most things in life are offensive. We are reactive beings. It’s Darwinian programming. Environments of thought, social interaction, culture, surrounding conditions, peers, enemies, and allies, all are fluid with us reacting in a high to low level of resistance. We are not to live as Jello seeking a soft spot to hide out.
The pastor told the truth, but blacks don’t want discipline, they want happy fun times and screwing for all!
Every weekend in Chicago proves a few dozen blacks don’t matter.
Looking at that photo of Clinton leering and Al Sharpton being transfixed by Ariana’s booty, one half expects to see Clinton and Sharpton high-fiving each other, with Al saying “that’s what I’m talkin’ ‘bout!”
Not objecting to the pastor who sexually assaulted Arianna Grande. No, the one who insisted on Christian values.
“Freeway of Love” was perhaps the most embarrassing song of the 1980s.
In those pictures from the VIP row it’s all eyes on the prize, so to speak.
Also, if they didn’t want it to turn political why sit politicians in a place of prominence rather than, you know, old politicians.
Im glad you outlined this was a conservative pastor
Because freepers DO NOT read the story
This preacher was spot on
Spot on
The problem with the black race in a nut
That captures it accurately, it’s so funny how these libs write their own jokes then play them out.
Stevie Wonder is a fool.
He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogize her, said Vaughn Franklin, the late singers nephew, who said he was delivering a statement for the family.
Y'know, because everything else that was said was on-point. Oh, and having Farrakhan attend was 100 percent appropriate.
If the pastor just brought this stuff up out of the blue then I think critism is warranted. On the other hand if he was responding to subjects others had brought up and was otherwise focused in the life of the deceased then the critism would be hypocritical.
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