Posted on 01/31/2006 4:05:36 AM PST by Maria S
I just heard on the news that Mrs. Coretta King has died. Just my personal opinion, but she was a dignified, classy woman who served her country and her late husband's memory quite well.
Rest in Peace, Mrs. King.
Blessings to you Mrs. King!
May you rest well and have joy with those who have passed before you! Thank you for your service to true causes and for your honorable, dignified leadership in them all!
Rest in peace!
"Words have been thrown out here: "Dignity", "Grace" and "Greatness". Yet, there isn't one example thus far on this entire thread of any of those things.
"I am not bashing Coretta S. King. I am just marveling at the predictable thing that so many white people do. And that is, that because she was a well known black figure that has passed, many whites are now in a foot race to see who can outdo the other with their praise for a woman that the overwhelming vast majority of them know absolutely nothing about!
"That's all."
Unless you are familiar with Coretta Scott King, please refrain from inserting BOTH feet into your obviously very large mouth. Yep! I'm white, and of the older generation. It was one tough time back in the 60's...blacks were doing their best to become equal, and Martin Luther King was doing his best to show us all that we, as a nation, could STAND together. I was neither a "peace marcher" nor did I actually know much about what MLK was about.
All I DO know is there was a lovely young woman named Coretta Scott King who held her head high after her husband was gunned down by a nutcase, then when on to try and help his cause. MLK was NOT one of the militants who have taken over the idiocy these days...Jesse Jackson, Charles Rangel, etc.
My apologies for anyone I've offended in this post. Mrs. King continued throughout her life to show dignity, grace, and kept her head straight. She went through certain disgraces that a lot of us have gone through. And she kept her head upright and showed dignity. If she had been white, it wouldn't have mattered with me.
The smarty remarks about your "marveling" at white predictable comments are totally silly...you are either a very young person who knows little about history, or you have no understanding about race relations in this country. I am in NO footrace to outpraise other whites...I just lived during those MLK times, and I saw how brave, how DIGNIFIED, how classy she was then.
I live quite peacefully with blacks, Mexican-Americans, Jews, and a few Asians. Probably in part, at least, to people like MLK and Coretta King.
I have an old LP of the March on Washington. Must be 30 years old. Back in the 70s, it was all public domain. I play it only once a year. But if they want it back,... well, they're not getting it back.
May God rest her soul and comfort her children. A fine, gracious woman she was.
"Not only that, but the Alito confirmation-to-be has been preemptively blown right off the top of tomorrow's front page."
"So what? We won. A Great American has died. It takes precedence than your gloat party."
Ding! Ding! I think we have another winner in MikeinIraq! Alito's confirmation will happen, and he will be there for a number of years...serving as he deems best. Meanwhile, I don't think a lot of us even bother to read the "top of tomorrow's front page" anymore. Nor do we waste our time on the network news shows.
On a positive note, some of us DO read the comics daily. They're about as true to life as the nonsense that is being presented as reality.
Amen.
So much for dignified intelligent comment by some on FR, eh? We've definitely been infiltrated.
Maybe someone can explain to me why we have something called Presidents day and we have MLK's birthday?
How come we do not have Civil Rights Day and Presidents Day? I would think that Lincoln and Washington deserve their own days about as much, if not more than MLK.
I was about to make a similar comment, but glad I read the thread a bit further. You were more kind than I would have been.
also i am burning candles for her today & will do so until after her funeral.
free dixie,sw
An excellent analysis. It is sad for us that the Founders overlooked this one call to freedom that should never have been allowed to pass by at the time (1770s).
Amen. MLK was a man of true greatness, and she was his well-suited partner. RIP.
Condolences, Stand Watie!
"her husband's rampant adultery and plagarism."
His plagarism was rampant?
I honestly think we should have a Lincoln's birthday and a Washington's Birthday holiday.
That doesn't bother me at all.
And I don't mind MLK Day.
We should honor those that truly had an impact on this country. MLK is certainly one of them.
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