Americas KNOWS who is really color-blind!!
Posted on 02/07/2006 6:33:27 PM PST by KCRW
Carter brought up the government response to Katrina, saying, “We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi” to know that inequality exists. He also noted that the Kings once were “victims of secret government wiretapping” — echoing Bush’s domestic spying program.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
What is this part doing in this story? “victims of secret government wiretapping” — echoing Bush’s domestic spying program.
Echoing?????? As if President Bush is echoing exactly what the Kennedy's were doing in the 60's?????? This is unbiased reporting?????
I AM FURIOUS. I AM NOT EVEN SURE WHO TO CONTACT OR TO YELL AT ABOUT THIS LINE IN THIS STORY!
"Carter ...also noted that the Kings once were “victims of secret government wiretapping”...but Mr. Peanut forgot to mention that Bobby Kennedy ok'd the tap.
Funny that I voted for Carter in 1976.
By 1992 I could spot a bum a mile away.
On 60 Minutes on the night of the Super Bowl in 1992 I recognized another bum and bumess.
As much as I begged my wife to see ......she still voted for the bum.
But she didn't vote for the bum in 1996.
For what was supposed to be a funeral, they sure spent a lot of time not talking about the deceased.
Not sure that was his intention, but then again, Jimmu''s daddy was an Unreconstructed Confederate. Hated America almost as much as his son.
Who died?
I have never posted before but I am so furious I can't see straight. I have emailed, called, and will write every single moron involved in the disgraceful attack today at the funderal.... as soon as I get my puke cleaned up after watching this sickening garbage and reading tonight's press.
Letters to the editor are always good.
As furious as I am right now, I still wanted to say "welcome". Any friend of Laura's is a friend of mine! I have never respected a first lady as much as I respect the one we have right now.
The complete article with the crAP writers is on the AP wires. It was written by Errin Haines and Nedra Pickler whom is known as writing anti Bush stuff for crAP.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/feb/07/020706327.html
Presidents Join Mourners at King Funeral
By ERRIN HAINES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) -
Ten thousand mourners - including four U.S. presidents, numerous members of Congress and many gray-haired veterans of the civil rights movement - said goodbye to Coretta Scott King on Tuesday, with President Bush saluting her as "a woman who worked to make our nation whole."
The immense crowd filled the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church - a modern, arena-style megachurch in a suburban Atlanta county that was once a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan but today has one of the most affluent black populations in the country.
More than three dozen speakers at the funeral took turns remembering the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who worked to realize her husband's dream of equality for nearly 40 years after his assassination. She died Jan. 30 at age 78 after battling ovarian cancer and the effects of a stroke.
The president ordered flags flown at half-staff across the country.
"Coretta Scott King not only secured her husband's legacy, she built her own," Bush told the crowd. "Having loved a leader, she became a leader, and when she spoke, Americans listened closely."
Former President Clinton urged mourners to follow in her footsteps, honor her husband's sacrifice and help the couple's children fulfill their parents' legacy. Former President Bush said the "world is a kinder and gentler place because of Coretta Scott King." President Carter praised the Kings for their ability to "wage a fierce struggle for freedom and justice and to do it peacefully."
The funeral at times turned political, with some speakers decrying the war in Iraq, the Bush administration's eavesdropping program, and the sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina in mostly black New Orleans.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., drew a roaring standing ovation when he said: "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor" - a takeoff on a line from a Stevie Wonder song. The comment drew head shakes from Bush and his father as they sat behind the pulpit.
The lavish service stood in sharp contrast to the 1968 funeral for King's husband. President Lyndon B. Johnson did not attend those services, which were held in the much smaller and older Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, where King had preached.
Johnson did not attend because he was meeting with advisers and Cabinet officers at Camp David to discuss Vietnam War peace talks. There were also security concerns because of rioting that followed King's death, according to Betty Sue Flowers, director of Johnson's presidential library in Austin, Texas.
Instead, Johnson declared a national day of mourning and sent Vice President Hubert Humphrey to the ceremony in Atlanta.
Two hours after Tuesday's funeral, Coretta Scott King's coffin was placed in a tomb near her husband's at the King Center, which she built to promote his memory. Her tomb is inscribed with a passage from First Corinthians: "And now abide Faith, Hope, Love, These Three; but the greatest of these is Love."
Over the past several days, more than 160,000 mourners waited in long lines to pay their respects and file past King's open casket during viewings at churches and the Georgia Capitol, where King became the first woman and the first black person to lie in honor.
"She made many great sacrifices," said Sean Washington, 38, who drove from Tampa, Fla., with his wife and children from a disability center to attend the funeral. "To be in her presence once more is something that I would definitely cherish, no matter what."
Stevie Wonder and Michael Bolton sang, giving soaring, gospel-infused performances. At least 14 U.S. senators attended, along with members of the House.
Among the civil rights veterans at the funeral were Dorothy Height, longtime chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women; Rep. John Lewis, former head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who led the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala.; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
The youngest of the Kings' four children, Bernice, delivered remarks that were part fiery sermon and part eulogy. She was 5 when her father was assassinated, and was famously photographed lying in her mother's lap during her father's funeral.
Bernice King, a minister at the megachurch, yelled at times as she preached against violence and materialism, saying that her mother's purpose in life was to spread her father's message of peace and unconditional love.
"Thank you, mother, for your incredible example of Christ-like love and obedience," she said.
Poet Maya Angelou called Coretta Scott King "a study in serenity" and challenged the audience to carry on the King message of nonviolence.
"We owe something from this minute on, so that this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history," said Angelou, a former U.S. poet laureate who sang some of her comments in a traditional style of the Southern black church.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin - who spoke immediately after the president - injected politics into her remarks, describing how Coretta Scott King spoke out against "the senselessness of war" with a voice that was heard "from the tintop roofs of Soweto to the bomb shelters of Baghdad."
Carter brought up the government response to Katrina, saying, "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi" to know that inequality exists. He also noted that the Kings once were "victims of secret government wiretapping" - echoing Bush's domestic spying program.
Outside the church, the lines to get into the funeral and to attend the final viewing of King's body started forming before 3 a.m.
"It's good to finally see her at peace," said Robert Jackson, a 34-year-old financial consultant from Atlanta whose 10-year-old daughter, Ebony, persuaded him to take her to the church.
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Associated Press Writer Nedra Pickler contributed to this report
Thank you, KCRW....she was a class act at SMU and she is even more so now.
Our country has been treated to a First Lady that, in my opinion, has been the best we've ever had. I'm really proud of her (I know I'm a tad prejudice....just a tad....:-) ).
She used to be a little shy but she was very funny, alot of fun, and nice to everybody....just like W is.
Jimmy Carter is a classless individual.
When that bum got re-elected in 96 I called my brother in Germany.I told him that I couldn't understand how it happened,not one person I knew voted for Clinton.He said the answer was easy-we don't associate with people who would do a thing like that.(Vote for Clinton)
I don't think it was funny, unless you are saying the joke was on you. Now a vote for Ford, that's a little funny.
Jimmy Carter and his cronies can go straight to hell.
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