1 Boring Old Man

I’m surprised at the right wing press responding to Coretta’s funeral as they seem to be reacting. They are saying that the "Democrats" "used" her funeral for political attacks on Bush. I’m certainly not surprised at what Reverend Lowery said. We Atlantans would have been stunned if he hadn’t carried the message he and Dr. King started with when they founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. That’s what they always talked about, then and now. Coretta would’ve been stunned too if he hadn’t carried the message. What else would Jimmy Carter have said to honor Ms. King? He carries the message of Civil and Human Rights like a one man Band, and I’m sure she would have thanked him. I’m absolutely sure that if she could have given her own eulogy, she’d have brought the same message.

I think that they are so used to Mr. Bush speaking at sanitized  gatherings full of soldiers and devotees that they cannot imagine him having to listen to something he doesn’t want to hear. If he hadn’t been there, it wouldn’t have been any different. If there were no t.v. cameras there, I doubt that it would have been much different. Back in the days of the Movement when there were no cameras around, the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement would have preached that same sermon.

And, by the way, what the hell is wrong with telling the truth at a funeral of someone who gave her husband and much of her life to carry the message of that truth?  If Bush doesn’t want to hear what the whole Civil Rights Movement was about, if he’s insulted by hearing about Katrina victims and the disenfranchised poor in America, if he can’t tolerate negative comments about his insane war, I’d recommend he stay out of Atlanta Georgia when Coretta Scott King is laid to rest. That funeral was not about his sensibilities…