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The furor over the statement reached heights resembling what might occur if Bin Laden is captured. Both CNN and Fox news ran the [Joseph Lowery] statement, but edited out the 18 seconds of standing applause that followed them. National newspaper headlines all over the country questioned whether [Coretta]'s funeral was the place for "political statements," similar to Chicago Tribune's header that read, "when a pulpit turns to politics."
So, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. C.T. Vivian, (Harry Belafonte was dis-invited) were all excluded from the funeral itself and Rev. Lowery was the token representative of that tradition. It would not have been inevitable that the values would clash if Rev. Lowery had, like so many others who spoke at the funeral, been divorced from Coretta Scott King's legacy, previously hostile to it, or more concerned about putting on a nice, non-controversial show. It took considerable integrity and courage on Rev. Lowery's part to look in the face of the monstrous theft of King's dream on the stage before him and challenge it frontally before the American people.See the full content of this document
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Commentary; Speaking Truth to Power
As the funeral of Coretta Scott King wore on, there was a sense in which I thought that she might rise up from the casket and ask where was the legacy to which she and her husband had devoted their lives being memorialized, because it sure wasn't being project...
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