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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRev. Al scorching 45 at Aretha's home going!
I just had to post fast and itll be up soon, but he got a standing o and a bass riff. 😍
He said Trump needed to learn about RESPECT, and that she never worked for him, she worked for us!
Preach!!
SCRUBDASHRUB
(7,252 posts)Zoonart
(11,875 posts)Beautiful, Rev!
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)Zoonart
(11,875 posts)Senior moment. LOL
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)no problemo
kimbutgar
(21,174 posts)President Bill Clinton was trying hard to keep a straight face.
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)skylucy
(3,740 posts)lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)Hotler
(11,443 posts)besides the poke in the eye to 45, he gives a good sermon. "See you at the exchange counter." Can I get a Amen?
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)wryter2000
(46,076 posts)Thanks for posting
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Pres. Obama's letter was just the right closing touch.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Almost a fountain. It's occasions like this when I realize the power of love and goodness will always win over people like Donald Trump and his kind.
Bayard
(22,123 posts)Reverend Al still has remarkable delivery. Love the copier story.
Bill Clinton was having trouble staying awake.
And I knew the letter the Reverend read at the end was from Obama within a couple sentences. Eloquence and elegance.
The Queen of Soul's example is a sharp contrast to many today who have no soul.
LisaM
(27,820 posts)Well, I'll catch it later.
Brother Buzz
(36,456 posts)MichMan
(11,959 posts)Probably will get attacked here , but I don't think that a funeral is the appropriate time & place for this.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)To have excluded such comments would have been disingenuous at best, and left the funeral feeling hollow at worst. She was after all, a supporter of Democrats.
MichMan
(11,959 posts)MichMan
(11,959 posts)I stand by my opinion that funerals are not the place to make political or social statements. Rev Jasper Williams Jr. is getting criticism for his statements yesterday at Franklin's funeral. Funerals should honor the life and legacy of someone, not be a venue for people's personal statements. This was also said yesterday at Aretha's funeral
Aretha Franklin's eulogist draws criticism for remarks on black America Detroit Free Press
" A Georgia pastor's eulogy of Aretha Franklin has sparked criticism from some people who accused him of being homophobic, sexist and demeaning to other black people.
The Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. of the Salem Bible Church in Atlanta touched on Franklin's life and career but also criticized black-on-black crime and said single mothers are incapable of raising sons by themselves. He said black America has lost its soul and that it's "now time for black America to come back home."
"There was a time when we as a race had a thriving economy," Williams said. "I remember we had our own little grocery stores. We had our own little hotels. They weren't big and fancy, but they were ours.
"As bad as the days as Jim Crow and segregation were ... it forced us to each other instead of forcing us on each other. We quickly come to realize that as a people, all we really have is one another."
"Where is your soul, black man?" he asked. "As I look in your house, there are no fathers in the home no more. Where is your soul?"
"Seventy percent of our households are led by our precious, proud, fine black women. But as proud, beautiful and fine as our black women are, one thing a black woman cannot do. A black woman cannot raise a black boy to be a man. She cant do that. She cant do that."
Then, Williams touched on the Black Lives Matter movement and called for an end to black-on-black violence.
It amazes me how it is that when the police kills one of us, we're ready to protest march, destroy innocent property," he said. "Were ready to loot, steal whatever we want. ... But when we kill 100 of us, nobody says anything. Nobody does anything.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/08/31/aretha-franklin-eulogist-reverend-jasper-williams/1163498002/