Gettin’ jiggy at Rosa Parks’ funeral
I don’t watch funerals of important people in our society much. When his/her death is announced, I have an initial reaction, recollect on his/her impact to our society, and I move on. But I turned on Rosa Parks’ funeral ceremony and watched about 30 minutes of it on the local television coverage. That was at 11:00am EST. So when I turned on the same channel at 6:00pm, the funeral at Greater Grace Temple (Detroit) was still on-going. I was positively disgusted. My wife, the digital video recording Queen, recorded the entire ceremony. So I grabbed the remote control and started rewinding through it. Pastor Bishop Charles Ellis had a program laid out that was three hours in length. As you can see, it was a full 7 hours and change. I watched as Pastor Ellis kept getting pestered by people and/or their entourage wanting to speak. Pastor Ellis was literally bulldozed in his own church by greedy fools wanting the limelight. 7+ hours!! That is a crock. I stopped and listened to some of the speeches not on the program and was astounded by their fake emotion, wordiness, and overall irrelevance. What made it somewhat tolerable was the “I can’t believe this is happening” expressions on some of the dignitaries’ faces. Notables that made some humorous expressions:
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Minister Louis Farrakhan
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)
Reverend Al Sharpton
Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI)
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
Those six had me laughing my ass off (among the countless regular folks sneaking out). But those that rushed the mic to slobber all over it during ROSA PARKS FUNERAL should be publicly flogged, buttered, and dumped in a bowl of warm noodles. The best expression I can use is those limelight lovers were gettin’ jiggy. For those who don’t know what gettin’ jiggy means, I’ll just say they were acting foolish at the wrong damn time.
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At first I was mighty peeved at your comments T-Steel. then I had the chance to review the 7+ hours (via my sister’s TIVO) and now I agree with you 100%! Goodness! Some of those people needed to sit down and just listen. And some of those ministers did slobber over the microphone. YUCK!
11 03 05
T Steel Keep it real and true, as usual. I have nothing else to add to the profundity of your post!