Aretha Franklin's family found eulogy 'distasteful'

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Aretha Franklin's family found eulogy 'distasteful'
By Mark Savage
BBC Music reporter. 3 hours ago

The pastor said his comments had been misunderstood

Aretha Franklin's family have said that they found the closing eulogy at her funeral offensive and distasteful.

The Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. said black America was losing "its soul" and described children raised without a father as "abortion after birth".

"He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogise her," said Vaughn Franklin, the singer's nephew, speaking on behalf of the family.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45406434

[goatprairie]

This is the family that invited Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, and they're upset about a reverend giving a lecture during the funeral.   

[Frank Cannon]

LOL. That speech upsets them but some dirty old man molesting a young girl on stage didn't?

[skeeter]

This is the family that invited Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, and they're upset about a reverend giving a lecture during the funeral.   

The irony was message that pastor, whom the guest of honor specifically invited, gave was like wolfbane to those grifting clowns.

[jmyrlefuller]

The irony was message that pastor, whom the guest of honor specifically invited, gave was like wolfbane to those grifting clowns.

Yep. They loved all the social justice preaching, but one guy tells them to check themselves, they wreck themselves with whining about "respectability politics." The audience will not listen to anything that doesn't fit their preconceived victimhood notions.

[mountaineer]

Aretha Franklin Was a God Girl: The Controversial Funeral Sermon | Opinion
Lee Habeeb , Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories"
On 9/4/18 at 4:37 PM

It was a sermon few heard, but one everyone was talking about.

“Old-school eulogy at Aretha Franklin funeral ignites wrath,” headlined ABC News.

“Uproar over pastor’s fiery eulogy at Franklin funeral,” said Yahoo News.

The media exploded as excerpts of Reverend Jasper Williams Jr’s sermon at Aretha Franklin’s funeral were released. But what did this pastor say that created such hysteria? What was the context of his sermon? And who is he?  ...

So who is Reverend Williams Jr? He may have been a stranger to the media and the audience, but he was no stranger to the Franklin family.

He’s the man who’s delivered the eulogies for Aretha’s father, brothers and sisters—something many reports in the media didn’t mention.

But there’s more you need to know about the Franklin family.

You see, Aretha was a God girl. And she was not shy about it.  ...

Williams closed things out with a positive message.

“You say where shall we go and what shall we do? Well, right in your own neighborhoods where your church is, there are struggling single moms that don’t know what to do and need a man in the house. Through mentoring programs and parenting our children, we can turn black America around.”

That’s controversial? That answers to our problems are often within us? And that our real problems—our biggest problems—are often spiritual in nature?

One woman would surely agree: Aretha Franklin.  ...

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[MK ULTRA]

LOL. That speech upsets them but some dirty old man molesting a young girl on stage didn't?

Make that two dirty old men. Look at the bottom left of the photo. Bubba is dreaming...'Hey!! How about a threesome!!'.

http://worldwideinterweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ariana_grande_taco_bell.jpg

[mystery-ak]

Yet the Franklin family allowed these three to stay