Aretha Franklin’s Family: Reverend’s Eulogy Was ‘Offensive And Distasteful’

dailycaller.com ^ | 9/4/2018 | Mike Brest

[rktman]

WUT?! Somebody politicizing a funeral and eulogy? Well, that's two for two. Thank you Franklin family for speaking up. Maclame, er Buhler, Buhler--------------?

[servo1969]

I’m sure it was fine to talk a little politics until he started talking about the bastard child epidemic.

[EagleUSA]

Stereotypes: just go away. Thank You.

[Haiku Guy]

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.

[freedumb2003]

A streetwalker performing OTOH — perfectly respectful.

[backwoods-engineer]

Yep, and it was fine to politicize funerals until he started talking about black-on-black violence. That is not an approved talking point.

[nikos1121]

I didn’t listen to him, but was it true, that he didn’t say a word about Aretha? I find that rather odd.

[Dogbert41]

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...

[Savage Rider]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Apparently fatherhood and peaceablity are negative agendas.

[Dixie Yooper]

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

[Responsibility2nd]

+1

Well said.

[circlecity]

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”?

[Right Wing Assault]

Call him out completely. Ask for PUBLIC apologies.

[JimRed]

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?

[VanDeKoik]

They were offended by that guy, but the political slaps at Trump were A-OK?

[texican01]

For Christians, funerals are worship events. For pagans, funerals are a hoot-nanny where Truth is “verboten”

[Alberta's Child]

It’s only odd if the minister actually knew Aretha Franklin. I suspect not.

[DoughtyOne]

“:^)