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February 09, 2006
Eulogy for children
Delivered at funeral service for three of the children - Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, and Cynthia Diane Wesley - killed in the bombing. A separate service was held for the fourth victim, Carole Robertson.
African Americans - Eulogy for the Young Victims Addie Mae CollinsAfrican Americans - Eulogy for the Young Victims Carol Denise McNairAfrican Americans - Eulogy for the Young Victims Carole RobertsonAfrican Americans - Eulogy for the Young Victims Cynthia Diane Wesley
This afternoon we gather in the quiet of this sanctuary to pay our last tribute of respect to these beautiful children of God. They entered the stage of history just a few years ago, and in the brief years that they were privileged to act on this mortal stage, they played their parts exceedingly well. Now the curtain falls; they move through the exit; the drama of their earthly life comes to a close. They are now committed back to that eternity from which they came.
These children-unoffending, innocent, and beautiful-were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.
And yet they died nobly. They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity. And so this afternoon in a real sense they have something to say to each of us in their death. They have something to say to every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained-glass windows. They have something to say to every politician [Audience:] (Yeah) who has fed his constituents with the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. They have something to say
to a federal government that has compromised with the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats (Yeah) and the blatant hypocrisy of right-wing northern Republicans. (Speak) They have something to say to every Negro (Yeah) who has passively accepted the evil system of segregation and who has stood on the sidelines in a mighty struggle for justice. They say to each of us, black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution. They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American dream.
For the complete eulogy go here
Explain to me again now, what was your problem?
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No problem because Bush was not sitting in the audience when Martin Luther King spoke those words to the (his) families. When Bush intrudes on a funeral and someone speaks words of truth and about the person's life, who took a stance against racism, injustice and all around Bush policies, then at that time it is 'politicizing a funeral". The difference is the Bush photo oppurtunity factor.
R.I.P. Martin and Corretta, I dearly love and miss you both.
Posted by: sandy at February 9, 2006 08:22 PM
