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...for simply telling the truth about black America. In an event that spawned many politically charged speeches, his was different from the anti-Trump rhetoric. DETROIT (AP) — A fiery, old-school eulogist at the funeral of Aretha Franklin fell flat for many in the crowd and prompted a social media uproar when he declared "black America has lost its soul," black women are incapable of raising sons alone and the Black Lives Matter movement is unfounded in the face of black-on-black crime. And that was just 26 minutes into the nearly 50 minutes of words provided by the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta as Franklin's marathon funeral wound down Friday. Williams, who also eulogized Franklin's father, minister and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin, 34 years ago, was excoriated on Twitter and elsewhere for misogyny, bigotry and the perpetuation of false science on race. He also blamed integration and the civil rights movement for ripping the heart out of black micro-economies that once relied on black-owned small businesses such as grocery stores, hotels and banks. As he wended his way through the need for more African Americans to return to church and more men to return to their families, the heat turned up online, with younger people declaring rhetoric such as that of Williams is why they left their churches to begin with. At one point, Williams asked: "Where is your soul, black man? As I look in your house, there are no fathers in the home no more." As for black women, he preached that "as proud, beautiful and fine as our black women are, one thing a black woman cannot do, a black woman cannot raise a black boy to be a man." Williams described as "abortion after birth" the idea of children being raised without a "provider" father and a mother as the "nurturer." https://www.yahoo.com/entertai...wrath-005834257.html "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | ||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
I’m sure it keeps him up nights, what the trolls are saying on Twitter.  | |||
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delicately calloused |
Reminds me of Rev. Manning. If the sermon stung it is because the truth hurts. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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AMEN!! Preach it, bruthuh!!! "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Obviously, leftist ideology is not his religion, contrary to many in the audience. Heck, he may even think Bill Clinton is not a saint! ... stirred anti-clockwise. | |||
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| Victim of Life's Circumstances  |
Comments following a yahoo report on this are running in favor of the pastor by a big margin. ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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Bit of an uproar about him groping Ariana Grande as well. Year V | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Nah, that was the young buck 'preacher'.  | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
The best part of her funeral was watching Slick Willie and the good reverend Jesse Jackson eyeballing Ariana Grande's ass. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
What??? How can the first black president NOT be a saint???  | |||
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That was another speaker, Charles Ellis III. | |||
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Ah, good, and sorry. Glad to not take away from the older fellow's message. Year V | |||
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safe & sound |
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why were they even there? looked like loserville on the front row, and wasn't Sharpton part of it as well? https://www.chesterfieldarmament.com/ | |||
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The "Blacks", just like every other group of people in America are use to being told what they want to hear, and love having smoke blown up their butts. When the truth is told, they can't believe it or take it. I say good for this Reverend, who is a real Reverend unlike Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton. (Two fakes, phonies and frauds) | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
America’s first black President, doncha know. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Leatherneck |
As I read about this funeral all I can do is laugh. It’s a classic case of liberals not being able to get out of their own way. I think everyone in attendance left offended by either a eulogy or a joke or an “inappropriate touch”. It’s like a bunch of snakes got tossed in a pit with other snakes and I get to watch them all bite each other  “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
The pastor was requested by Aretha to deliver the eulogy so I think she had a hand in composing it. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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The only legitimate Preacher in the whole bunch . | |||
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Sharpton was there along with Farrakhan...front row. 
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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