On Thu, 10 Feb 2006, Harry Flynt wrote:
> eldorado <eldorado@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Harry Flynt wrote:
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>>> eldorado <eldorado@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Sunset Sam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:19:31 -0600, eldorado <eldorado@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Sunset Sam wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:54:28 -0600, eldorado <eldorado@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mrs. King was an activist in life, why should her memorial
service
>>>>>>>> not reflect that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Wellstone two step...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So you think you have the right to tell Mrs. King's family how to
>>>>>> best celebrate and honor Mrs. King's life?
>>>>>
>>>>> So you think you have the right to turn a funeral into a political
>>>>> rally?
>>>>
>>>> I didn't nor would I feel I have the right to speak on what Mrs. King
>>>> would have wanted. On the other hand, the family did invite certain
>>>> people to speak, and the family DOES have a right to decide how Mrs.
>>>> King should best be honored.
>>>
>>> that's right bush was invited by the king family to speak about her
>>> life. not to be invited and sit there and be a punching bag for the
>>> other invited speakers and those in attendance. those people showed
>>> themselves to be tacky with no respect.
>>
>> And how do you know that the King family did not want bush's policies
>> questioned?
>
> how do you know they did?
>
> Mrs. King was known for speaking her mind, are you
>> suggesting that people invited should NOT talk about Mrs. Kings feeling
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>> even when directed towards the current admin's policies?
>
> yes!
Wrong! Mrs. King never shrank from telling it like it is..she would be
rolling in her grave if it had been the funeral you right-wingers feel she
should have had (but who cares about the life of the person we are
honoring, as long as it doesnt upset jr, right? WRONG! Cry me a goddamn
river, when did the right wing become such cry-babies?)
Read this snip (entire can be read at
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-brooks10feb10,0,356591.column?coll=la-news-columns)
First, let's keep in mind that King did not start out as a sweet,
photogenic old lady with bipartisan appeal. She may have been committed to
nonviolent methods, but she was a fighter nonetheless, a woman who, like
my namesake Rosa Parks, never shrank from speaking truth to power.
When she marched beside her husband through the streets of Montgomery,
Ala., King didn't worry about being "appropriate." Had she been a little
more "appropriate," she would have stayed "in her place," content with the
back of the bus and the inferior facilities reserved for "colored" people.
When her husband was assassinated in 1968, King kept right on being
inappropriate. A day before his funeral, at a time when many
conventionally "decent" women might have stayed home weeping, she took his
place marching with striking Memphis sanitation workers and, soon after,
spoke at an anti-Vietnam War rally.
King never did stop being "inappropriate" and "tactless." She spoke out
against homophobia, even when some of her own friends wanted to look the
other way. "I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the
rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of
racial justice," she said in 1998. "But I hasten to remind them that
Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere.' "
In his State of the Union address last week, the president assured us that
"even tough debates can be conducted in a civil tone."
Fine with me, but personally, I saw nothing uncivil about the remarks made
by Lowery and Carter.
At the funeral of a woman who spent her life speaking out about civil
rights, injustice, poverty and war, how can it be inappropriate to allude
to the terrible costs of the war in Iraq, the misinformation that led to
that war, the neglect of this nation's poor or this administration's
illegal secret surveillance?
And if Bush was offended by Lowery's and Carter's remarks? Tough luck. If
we have to choose between a civil tone and standing up for civil rights, I
know which one I'll take.
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