Coretta King eulogists jab Bush at funeral - Some nice quotes

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6448052&cKey=1139345432000

Lowery, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King helped found in 1957, gave a playful reading of a poem in eulogy of Mrs. King.

"She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war / She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar," he said.

"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there / But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here / Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor."

The mourners gave a standing ovation. Bush's reaction could not be seen on the television coverage, but after Lowery finished speaking, the president shook his hand and laughed.

[JuniperLea]

1. Ordinarily...

I would frown and call this grandstanding; however, seeing as both Dr. and Mrs. King lived their lives fighting for all our freedoms, I think Mrs. King would be proud to have her final public hours honored in this way.

But that's me. I expect to hear much bitching from the other side of the fence.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Jimmy Carter rocked too--said MLK & Coretta were

victims of government wiretapping. The crowd went wild & Shrub squirmed. sg

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I missed that! Did he speak before or after Poppy? (which I saw)

[blue in ohio]

4. Awesome

Coretta and Martin I'm sure would be proud.
The bigot thinks he's safe at a funeral. Never pass up an opportunity to call the bigot out.

[hwmnbn]

6. Welcome to DU, blue in ohio...

:hi:

[Warpy]

5. You have to realize how utterly clueless Stupid is

He's being kept in such a tightly controlled news bubble that he has no earthly idea any of those jabs were directed at HIM, even if he bothered listening to the words (doubtful).

You see, he's being told that the money going to poverty programs is increasing each year (but not being told it's not keeping up with inflation) and he already "knows" that the only reason anyone is poor is because he is lazy.

So don't kid yourself. It all went right over his head.

[stillcool]

7. relevance ....

Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statements of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart, and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.

In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S. military advisors in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru.

It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered..