Aretha Franklin’s Family Says Rev. Jasper Williams' BLACK-ON-BLACK-CRIME Eulogy Was Offensive

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this 'house-nikka' was a disgrace and c00ning it up for his cracka daddy. Once again, WHO INVITED THIS nikka :mindblown: A day that was suppose to honor the late great Aretha Franklin became a clown show :snoop: EMBARRASSING.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The late Aretha Franklin’s family said Monday that it found an Atlanta pastor’s eulogy delivered at the Queen of Soul’s funeral last week to be offensive and distasteful.

The eulogist, the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr., was criticized for a political address that described children being in a home without a father as “abortion after birth” and said black lives do not matter unless blacks stop killing each other. Franklin’s funeral was on Friday.

“He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogize her,” said Vaughn Franklin, the late singer’s nephew, who said he was delivering a statement for the family.

Franklin said that his aunt never asked Williams to eulogize her, since she didn’t talk about plans for her own funeral. The family selected Williams because he has spoken at other family memorials in the past, most prominently at the funeral for Franklin’s father, minister and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin, 34 years ago.

Williams has not backed down from anything he said at the funeral, and said he respects the family’s opinion. “I understand it,” he said. “I regret it. But I’m sorry they feel that way.”

Besides a social media uproar, Williams heard resistance at the funeral itself. Singer Stevie Wonder yelled out “black lives matter” after the pastor said, “No, black lives do not matter” during his eulogy.

Williams had minimized the Black Lives Matter movement because of black-on-black crime. “Black lives must not matter until black people start respecting black lives and stop killing ourselves.”

He also said “there are not fathers in the home no more” and said that a black woman cannot raise a black boy to be a man. Some people suggested that was disrespectful of Aretha Franklin, a single mother of four boys.

His eulogy “caught the entire family off guard,” Vaughn Franklin said. The family had not discussed what Williams would say in advance, he said.

“It has been very, very distasteful,” he said.

He said it was unfortunate because everyone else who participated in the ceremony was very respectful.

AP Exclusive: Franklin's family says eulogy was offensive

UPDATE: He responds :pacspit: :scust:

 
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Got pissed when pastor mispronounced my nana's name. I feel their pain and understand their disgust.
Word. Like I said before, her funeral should have been private. I remember more of the fukkery than the actual funeral itself.
 

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How this nikka say that is the families "opinion"? :gucci:

Nikka YOU was invited.. Family said the shyt was offensive, it was offensive..

They should've moved on that nikka after the funeral.. :scust:
Word. It's crazy because at John McCain's funeral you didn't see Joe Lieberman and the gang bring up White Nationalism/etc. It is only with us where we let outsiders into our issues. That ho ass nikka was a disgrace.
 

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Word. It's crazy because at John McCain's funeral you didn't see Joe Lieberman and the gang bring up White Nationalism/etc. It is only with us where we let outsiders into our issues. That ho ass nikka was a disgrace.

:francis: Ingrained self hatred. Won’t even let the dead rest. Bringing us irrelevant subject matter to shyt on your own ethnic group.

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Who the fukk invited this fukking clown anyways?!!?:dahell: How this fool have any members after this at his church makes no fukking sense... He's an c00n a$$hole... Talking about black on black crime at ARETHA FRANKLIN'S FUNERAL?!? :why: da fukking nerve of this ingrate.
He said in the video in the OP that Aretha herself wanted the 'hoe-nikka' to do her eulogy.
 
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