quote:Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Coretta Scott King, delivered the eulogy:
It wasn't the stroke that took her, in the natural sense of the word. But it was the complications from ovarian cancer which caused respiratory pneumonia that took her. The Lord had me look back on that and he took me to a scripture. Where a man of the Pharisee’s name Nicodemus. A ruler of the Jews, came to Jesus at nighttime. And he said, “Rabbi, we know that you’re a teacher come from God. No one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you unless one is born again, he cannot-- she cannot see the Kingdom of God.” I said, “God, why are you taking me there?”
He said, “Because it is no accident or mistake that the very thing that took your mother out here, ovarian cancer, is a message that emerges from that kind of death for people all over the nation for such a time as this. For you see, her cancer, in other words, was concentrated in the reproductive area. The reproductive system.” And God took me back to there and he showed me how the cancer was growing in that reproductive area and it was beginning to affect other organs in that vicinity. He reminded me, he said, your mother passed away of complications from ovarian cancer, respiratory pneumonia, because right now my Earth, my world, my nations are on the verge of losing and dying and being overtaken with respiratory pneumonia failure because of complications from reproductive cancer. And those complications are hindering the ability for a new birth.
See what God is saying to us today through the transition of Coretta Scott King is that we, here in this world right now, are suffering from complications, of cancer from materialism and greed and selfishness and arrogance, and elitism, and poverty, and racism, and perversion, and obscenity, and misogyny, and idolatry, and militarism, and violence, and it is a cancer that's eating away at the very essence and nation of what God created of human kind to be-- for he created us! To have ruler ship and dominion in the Earth and not allow the Earth to dictate to us. But now what has happened is that the very Earth, the very creation that he put us in charge of is now controlling us. And instead of us reproducing other people who look like God, who talk like God, who act like God, who think like God, who do business like God, who govern like God, who entertain like God, we are not reproducing anything because the cancer is eating away at us.
While this is analogy, it seems to me to be a political statement. The more famous people who spoke more pointedly got the press coverage, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: It would have been better all around if the Speaker For The Dead could have spoken at her funeral. But that wasn't available.
Instead we must understand Mrs. King's life. She was not a firebrand of political activism. She married into that life out of love for her husband. [...]
After Reverend King's death she was pushed into the role of political firebrand as a queen is pushed into a thrown after the death of her husband.
Some tried to make her a figurehead, a puppet to dance to their tunes.
She stopped them, only by reluctantly taking on the mantle of political firebrand herself.
She fought for a day of celebration for her late husband, and for equality, both politically and economically, for her people. She hated war and fought to end those we find ourselves in.
She was a musician. Yet from her meeting of Martin Luther King Jr her life changed, swept up into the whirlwind that was his existance.
It is not fitting, nor is it right, but it is consistant with her life, that at her funeral, dedicated to the mother, the friend, and the musician, that politics overshadows all.
Now I appreciate what President Carter said about the wire tapping. Not as a put down to President Bush, but as a reminder. Her was a great woman being put to rest who suffered under abuses of power like those being resurrected. Before we commit ourselves to defending them, we need to realize to what errors they may lead.
She was a political activist before she met Dr, King, and after his death. So presumeably it was by her choice and not only by association with Dr. King.
I thought the most moving tribute was from the lady who was her babysitter and assistant, Patty. She said Mrs.King had made her into the lady she was today.
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