A Funeral fit for a Queen......
Well, I'm slowly getting myself ready to leave. I got most everything packed and just waiting for my hair to dry. I can't wait to leave and get the hell out of here!
Wow...that Rosa Parks funeral was on TV for like 8 hours!! It started around noon and the church funeral part ended around 6:00...then they had the long procession to the cemetery. Then when the hearse got into the gates, it ran out of gas..haha...so it sat there for awhile and then some guys started pushing it from behind to the mausoleum place. Then they had to wait for the family to catch up so they could proceed with the rest of the funeral...but by 8:00, the TV stations went back to their regular programming and I didn't see the rest of it. It was a very, very long funeral. She definitely had a funeral fit for a queen....and a queen she was. She was a gracious humble lady who did a heroic thing that started the wheels turning in the right direction. But unfortunatly, it is too bad that she wasn't treated like that while she alive...especially by her own people. It was a bit hypicritical to see all these african-americans like Jesse Jackson, etc, and the regular people going on and on about how great she was and what an impact she had on their lives and how they are going to really miss her. Well, where the hell were they when she was alive?? This poor woman lived in a rental house, and I believe it was a flat, in Detroit...got robbed by one of her own kind...and was almost evicted by her landlord at one point...and then finally Detroit set her up in a nicer apartment. Then I would hear some of them on TV say things like "when I had a chance to meet her", or "I met her once"...hell, she was a lonely woman who basically lived by herself...why didn't they just go and visit her? Where was Oprah and Jesse then?? There was a neice and her daughter there in the crowd who admitted that they never even met her!!! Christ, she was their Aunt for Gods' sake and they never bothered to meet her????
Well, they at least gave her a funeral fit for a Queen.
Not sure when I'll be back from Caseville....probably in a week or so...so have a good week...see ya
Wow...that Rosa Parks funeral was on TV for like 8 hours!! It started around noon and the church funeral part ended around 6:00...then they had the long procession to the cemetery. Then when the hearse got into the gates, it ran out of gas..haha...so it sat there for awhile and then some guys started pushing it from behind to the mausoleum place. Then they had to wait for the family to catch up so they could proceed with the rest of the funeral...but by 8:00, the TV stations went back to their regular programming and I didn't see the rest of it. It was a very, very long funeral. She definitely had a funeral fit for a queen....and a queen she was. She was a gracious humble lady who did a heroic thing that started the wheels turning in the right direction. But unfortunatly, it is too bad that she wasn't treated like that while she alive...especially by her own people. It was a bit hypicritical to see all these african-americans like Jesse Jackson, etc, and the regular people going on and on about how great she was and what an impact she had on their lives and how they are going to really miss her. Well, where the hell were they when she was alive?? This poor woman lived in a rental house, and I believe it was a flat, in Detroit...got robbed by one of her own kind...and was almost evicted by her landlord at one point...and then finally Detroit set her up in a nicer apartment. Then I would hear some of them on TV say things like "when I had a chance to meet her", or "I met her once"...hell, she was a lonely woman who basically lived by herself...why didn't they just go and visit her? Where was Oprah and Jesse then?? There was a neice and her daughter there in the crowd who admitted that they never even met her!!! Christ, she was their Aunt for Gods' sake and they never bothered to meet her????
Well, they at least gave her a funeral fit for a Queen.
Not sure when I'll be back from Caseville....probably in a week or so...so have a good week...see ya
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