Posted on 09/04/2018 7:58:21 AM PDT by rktman
Aretha Franklin’s family issued a statement condemning the eulogy from Pastor Jasper Williams which focused on black-on-black crime and the Black Lives Matter movement late Monday night.
“I want to speak on behalf of the Franklin family as it relates to the comments that Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr. made on Friday during my aunt’s Celebration of Life service on Friday, August 31,” said Vaughn Franklin, a related of Franklin, to the Free Press. “We found the comments to be offensive and distasteful, Rev. Jasper Williams spent more than 50 minutes speaking and at no time did he properly eulogize her.”
He also added, “We feel that Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr. used this platform to push his negative agenda, which, as a family, we do not agree with.”
Much of Williams’ eulogy focused on the black community instead of Franklin herself.
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I’m sure it was fine to talk a little politics until he started talking about the bastard child epidemic.
Stereotypes: just go away. Thank You.
Any family who agrees to televise a funeral can not blame others for exploiting the opportunity.
If you want quiet dignity, make sure TV cameras are kept out of the room.
A streetwalker performing OTOH — perfectly respectful.
Yep, and it was fine to politicize funerals until he started talking about black-on-black violence. That is not an approved talking point.
I didn’t listen to him, but was it true, that he didn’t say a word about Aretha? I find that rather odd.
I couldn’t stomach a six-hour Trump bash. But I read the parts of the eulogy they are upset about:
Black lives don’t matter until blacks stop killing blacks;
No fathers in black homes.
Sounds to me like an actual man of God giving the eulogy to me, instead of that brood of vipers up front...
If it was my aunt’s funeral and someone was trying to run away with their own agenda, I would march myself to the microphone and ask him to sit down. Then I would give a proper eulogy.
Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, and Clinton given positions of honor.
And the family has the nerve to overlook this and go after the man of God?
Sorry, lost me right there.
Apparently fatherhood and peaceablity are negative agendas.
I had plenty of other things to do all weekend, but I did take the time to g00gle Aretha Franklin funeral hats. I laughed, I cried, I lost my coffee all over the screen
+1
Well said.
So, a supposed “pastor” feeling up the entertainment while on the pulpit is OK, but a real Pastor talking about truth in the community is “offensive”?
Sounds to me like the Reverend said things which need to be heard by the black community, because only THEY can fix the problems which beset them. Are those the kinds of things Ms. Franklin said during her lifetime? Or believed but kept to herself for private reasons?
They were offended by that guy, but the political slaps at Trump were A-OK?
It’s only odd if the minister actually knew Aretha Franklin. I suspect not.
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