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Ahhh yes... the right to have your *** saved in an emergency. Where exactly was the violation of human rights, Mr. West?

dub2w

Coretta King's mission in life was to support people who advocated for social justice. I understand where you are coming from as a white agnostic, but we are talking about Southern Baptists (aside from Carter, Southern Black Baptists).

To repeat, this is not inappropriate at all. It is, in a sense, showing respect to the late Mrs. King by not letting politics interfere with speaking out against injustices.

What is lost in the conversation is the fact that poor people have been afflicted the hardest by this administration's policies. It is easy to live your life in predominantly white, upper class areas and be completely oblivious to the plight of the rest of America.

Unregistered

The people that invited him were not the speakers. Do not confuse the two.

Unregistered

No they are not especially in this context. Did you bother to hear the shots and praises these people got for telling Bush how it is? Like dub2w said you guys have no idea what a black southern church is like at all. Just for kicks I suggest you go, its actually a lot of fun.

No, they know what her legacy stands for. Because of this they see it is right to speak up against what they believe is social unjustices. This is not disrespectful to Mrs. King, like I stated earlier she would proably of been glad they did this. I'll quote King again since you missed it the first time.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

I'd like to quote someone else now.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overhwlemed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle)--this is working very well for them."—Barbara Bush

She raised this man and was the first lady not to long ago. Now you still can't understand why they see things as being racially motivated? But yet what got played more in the media? Her saying this or Kayne West saying, "Bush hates black people." The worst part in all that is that West should be a whole heck of less important that Barbara Bush.

I think what he is suggesting is that the Church is a platform for Reverends to speak about current events. Manners are for those that deserve them and Bush doesn't in this area. He exemplifies everything that Mrs. King and her late husband stood against, to come to her funeral is just waiting to get bit. Thats like if Hitler was still alive and he went to a Jewish funeral and expecting everyone to be nice to him.

Unregistered

Face it he should of expected it. Clinton would of expected something like this and not worried about it. Instead you seem to be butt hurt about something happening that was likely to happen.

ftnssn

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

I think it matters that the King family and the board of directors of the king center, for all appearances spent more on the gift shop and the contents thereof then anything else there.

I think it matters that in todays school MLK walks on water and Malcolm X is that Denzel Washington movie.

And finally I think it matters that the widow of a man devoted to the unity and coming together of all men, no matter what, is being remembered on this forum not for what she did but for the fact that, inappropriate or not, our president was derided and chastised at her funeral. That instead of honoring her life and her passing, in true I-club fashion the lines are drawn in the sand and the pissing contest is commenced.

Unregistered

And yet when you remember the man and all he stood for you forget his most important fight. That of civil liberties regardless of race or creed. That quote is a PERFECT example of what HE stood for. You are talking about something that is minor and is "your" perspective since I really doubt you have been to the King Center. Either way that doesn't really matter now does it? That is not what he stood for and not what matters in the grand scheme of things.

What Bush has done is exactly what King and his wife fought against. It is something she would happily stand up for. If you don't believe that you really should read up on her life story and history.

ftnssn

Actually I have been to the King Center. And he didn't stand for everybodies civil rights, just ask Bayard Rustin how he felt about that.

dub2w

There is definitely merit in that observation.

However, take note of who (and specifically which party) took offense. You are right, her memorial was an event to celebrate what she stood for. I trust that fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter and close-friends (such as the reverend) would have a better understanding of how exactly she would like to be commemorated.

Again, the raucous applause from the audience is a testament to the appropriateness of the comments.