Posted on 08/24/2014 4:37:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For a community gripped by the death of Michael Brown, residents here are prepared to not only mourn for the loss of the 18-year-old, but also to say goodbye to him in his funeral Monday and vow to never forget what his sacrifice has meant.
After more than two weeks of protests, political wrangling over investigations and swarms of media coverage from around the world, the Brown family will be laying their son to rest after he was shot dead in the middle of the street by a police officer on Aug. 9.
Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church is bracing for thousands expected to join the services Monday morning, where scores of Browns extended family are set to join for the closed casket ceremony, along with several celebrities and high-profile attendees. Despite the expected spectacle, church members here expressed warmth toward the Brown family and conveyed a sense of honor that they would choose the church as a place to say goodbye to the teen.
Were just so thankful here at Friendly that the Browns have decided to allow us to share in the honoring of their son, said Yashica Stimage, a member of the church.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou has been out on W. Florissant Ave., the epicenter of the protests, nearly every day and every night to honor the slain teen. For Sekou, having Browns funeral at the first church where he previously served carries a heartfelt meaning....
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You mean like in the ‘movies’.
http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/osagyefo-uhuru-sekou
The Rev Osagyefo-Uhuru-Sekou bio .... He has been in
Ferguson from early in the beginning of this event.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Rev.-Osagyefo-Sekou/e/B006ZLOSU6
I see people are still smoking a lot of crack nowadays.
Well it takes a lot of sacrifice to rob a store and smash a cop in the face.
Yes, but he pretends he's from Africa, and what is more important? The truth or his feelings ?
Oprah was a Zulu Warrior Princess who sold negro slaves to the Spaniards to take to North America... Oh, wait. Scratch that last part. She was a Zulu Warrior Princess and all the 'oppressed slaves' in the US are her children. At least that's what she pretends.
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Did they trademark “I am Michael Brown” yet?
Na Na Hey Hey
Yes I guess they did trademark his name, already they are selling Michael Brown products.
http://theblot.com/capitalizing-off-tragedy-michael-brown-merch-hits-the-internet-7724799
Well that’ll teach the thug not to steal and attack a cop.
Twilight Episode:
Mike Brown. Bad or good ?
Good kid, bad behavior. From everything I have heard or read over the past 2 weeks or so, he was JUST LIKE BIG MIKE in the movie THE BLIND SIDE.
It was that ‘fork in the road’ at the apartment of the ‘smaller but manipulative master mind’ of the complex who wanted Big Mike to be his ‘enforcer’.
In the movie, BIG MIKE made a choice. He took the hard road and worked for what he got. Took a path that led him to NFL championships.
In the Mike Brown case, he took the other path. He let his friends use him. He let them take advantage of his physical strength, and his limited intelligence for criminal intent.
Blame Obama, his parents, Ferguson, the Cops, the liberals, the democrats all to no avail.
Officer Wilson didn’t CHOOSE to ASSASSINATE Mike Brown, it was a roll of the dice that led to their encounter.
Bottom Line: The responsibility and choices were all Mike’s to make. He chose poorly.
Which is why you should aim at your foot, so that your shoe and foot deflect the bullet and keep it from possibly hitting a gas line, or water line, or gopher. You never know if PETA might be snooping over your fence.
stupid “c-word”
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Michael Brown’s “sacrifice”????
This disrespectful, shop-lifting, pot-smoking, store owner assaulting $hithead is now the new black jesus?
LOL!!
These people are all exhibiting mass hysteria and are creating their own reality which has nothing to do with FACT.
KTHXBAI
Thanks for the explanation. Have they ever preached a sermon to a congregation in their entire life?
You are not making sense; yes and then no?
Another self hating white liberal who can’t stand the fact that blacks are prone to crime and have serious trouble controlling their violent emotions.
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