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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 4092
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 07:27 am: | 
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Good bye and rest well, Coretta.
Now you can finally have a peace you have so righteously earned.
Thank you for your bravery, sacrifice, brilliance, gracefulness and beauty; our dear, sweet mother and sister. You will be forever remembered.
Please say "Hi" and "Thank You" to Martin for the rest of us.
Farewell Coretta and...GODspeed. |
Mrs_hart
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Username: Mrs_hart
Post Number: 273
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 09:13 am: |
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Coretta Scott King
1927 - 2006
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King is one of the unsung heros of the civil rights movement. Her life was often endangered along with her husband's. During the Montgomery bus boycott her home was bombed while she and her infant daughter Yolanda were inside.
She must have been extremely proud of her husband but her life with him must have been extremely difficult too. Mrs. King was a classically trained musician. When she married she had every expectation of being the proper first lady of a baptist church. Fate had other plans for her.
I know that every one will claim to have loved her and her husband. George Bush, who opposes everything King stood for, will probably be front and center at her funeral. Yuck. Sorry, I have no articulate words to describe that image. It just makes me sick.
It is sad that at the end of her life she watched her children fight over the direction of her husband's legacy. The expectations her children lived under must have been crushing. I sincerely hope that they will be able to mend their family relationship and find a way to speak to the issues their parents fought for with such determination
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3638
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 10:55 am: |
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Free at last, free at last. Spread your wings, and fly to a better world, Coretta Scott King. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 839
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 11:49 am: |
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My hope is that in coming years children's book authors will turn their attention *to* Miss Coretta herself, so that a book about her might be nominated for the Coretta Scott King Book Award. She certainly was an accomplished figure in her own right. (I have refused to read obits that begin in the first sentence describing her as "...widow of slain Civil Rights leader, MLK...") |
Prettybabygirl
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Username: Prettybabygirl
Post Number: 157
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 11:52 am: |
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This is so sad, man.
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 03:26 pm: |
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God Bless You And May You Rest In Peace Ms. Coretta Scott King. You Have Been An Inspiration To All Of Us And You Will Be Greatly Missed! |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 191
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 04:22 pm: |
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"Cries" I did not know she died. "She was the last of a dying breed". R.I.P |
Roxie
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Username: Roxie
Post Number: 616
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:35 am: |
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It's as clear as the coming day: Coretta's death marks the official end of an era. It's time to start a new chapter. |
Mrs_hart
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Username: Mrs_hart
Post Number: 284
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 02:22 pm: |
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And Coretta, although herself light-skinned, had the backs of every Black person for Civil Rights.
She also stood up for the rights of gays. |
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