This was indeed very sad news today, DoKnowDoCare. There have been few people who have contributed more to the civil rights movement, and she will indeed be missed.
I have a short post on my blog this morning, and I am requesting that people who are moved by Mrs. King's passing leave a short comment there, too.
The reason for this request is to counteract what will inevitably be a flood of garbage posted by the neo-Nazi kooks who like to troll my site.
Also - more importantly - if you have a blog, use the "anonymous" feature so the racist thugs won't follow you back to your site and harass you.
I refuse to let the legacy of Coretta Scott King be tarnished by these idiots.
posted by historymike at 10:29 A.M. EST on Tue Jan 31, 2006 #
An observation: this post has received only one comment. Apparently the regular posters must be too choked up and distraught to comment.
She and her husband suffered greatly for taking a moral stand. Few are willing to do just that, fearing the accustomed reprisals and subsequent demonizing. I suppose that is why most Americans have become complacent, not caring much about social issues. A person can absorb only so many harassments, so many insults, so much name-calling until he/she is crushed.
That angry knot of people, so vehemently opposed to any type of social justice or social assistance, are like the angry mobs she and her husband faced time and again, and are relentless in their opposition to the ideals for which Martin died and she grieved.
Yet, as promising as the sun after the storm, others rise up to carry on the work that needs to be done. Through them we have hope.
posted by limedrops911 at 08:32 A.M. EST on Wed Feb 01, 2006 #
Same topic is also posted at the community site ArborUpdate.com, and it has zero comments. So what's your point? What about less is more? What about a moment of silence? Your flaming insuation at the beginning of your comment ruins everything else you say. Rock on.
posted by jr at 08:59 A.M. EST on Wed Feb 01, 2006 #
Your flaming insuation at the beginning of your comment ruins everything else you say. Rock on.
jr--
I'm beginning to feel that you don't like me. Ever have that feeling? Sort of like you see somebody you've never met but you know, just know that you don't like them? Intuitive, if you catch the drift.
One thing for sure, though, is that you are a most righteous person and, hopefully, some day I'll catch up to you and your high standards.
posted by limedrops911 at 02:00 P.M. EST on Wed Feb 01, 2006 #
Once all the movments icons are gone. maybe we will get our country back. now if we could only get Jessie to stop rhyming.
posted by Angrysage at 08:41 P.M. EST on Wed Feb 01, 2006 #
I thought it was tacky, sad, and not what Mrs.King would have wanted to see at her funeral, the political jabs, talk. I have only respect for Mr. and Mrs. King. The only other thing I wondered about, regarding her funeral, was that I read that she was not a frivolous or extravagant woman, and yet her funeral seemed a bit on that side. Doesn't bother me if that is what she would have been ok with, she deserved all of that, and more. Just wondered.
posted by starling02 at 02:41 A.M. EST on Thu Feb 09, 2006 #
I read that she was not a frivolous or extravagant woman, and yet her funeral seemed a bit on that side.
This raises the question: should a person take charge of their own funeral?
It seems to me that singing the deceased's favorite hymn at the funeral was a nice touch as well as reading a message they had written to the mourners. However, in my mind's eye, choreographing one's entire funeral seems a bit obsessive and haughty, unless it demanded stark simplicity.
Yet, as evidenced by starling's comment, unless parameters are established while alive, the funeral may run amok and, in fact, portray the deceased in an unnatural way.
posted by limedrops911 at 09:05 A.M. EST on Fri Feb 10, 2006 #
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