Coretta Scott King, Why all the fuss?

Published on February 7, 2006 By Moderateman In US Domestic

What’s the deal about Coretta Scott King?

If I see one more tribute to the dead wife of slain black leader Martin Luther King I am going to scream.

So what? She died, what’s the big deal? All this flying flags at half-mast for what reason? She was no national hero, She did nothing great, and her big claim to fame is her husband was killed.

Where were all the tributes when Jackie Kennedy died? Where was her body laid in state?

This is just more politically correct garbage; if she were white there would not be such a display.

How have we let America fall into such a place that we “honor” someone not for what she did, but for the color of her skin?

Comments (Page 4)

ParaTed2k

on Feb 10, 2006

I just get sick and tired of every time there is one of our "Black Leaders"

And I'm sick and tired of racists thinking that a person has to be a certain color to be a leader for others.

What is the difference between a Black person or a White person who is a great leader? If you can tell a worthy leader by the color of their skin, well, (to paraphrase a great song) Miss, Your a Better Man than I.

Moderateman

on Feb 10, 2006

Reply By: MyrranderPosted: Thursday, February 09, 2006I haven't waded through the responses to your post, Mod, so this is just a bit to you and not anybody else who posted.I have to say, one of my reactions to the entire affair was the same as yours, "Why all the fuss?" After looking at the grandstanding speeches by many at her funeral, I thought it ever so much the harder. GW Bush's speech was actually one of the best, because he didn't seem to pursue any agenda -- and when I'M saying that Dubya was the high point, you know this thing was flawed.Mrs. King tried hard to consolidate the many disparate views of the civil rights movement that existed at the time of, and after, her husband's death, and so I respect her for that. But the orgy of guilt and "looking right" that was her funeral? Oh, it was PC bullshit at its worst.The cable news channels showed umpteen hours and updates, so they can say they love black people. NPR the same. It wasn't any real statement, just a chance for people to pretend that they give a shit about something other than their political stances.that's it for me, I was disgusted by the whole circus.

wow a wonderful condensed version of how I feel. damned insiteful myrr.

Moderateman

on Feb 10, 2006

Reply By: davad70Posted: Friday, February 10, 2006She does not have what it takes, what Rosa and Coretta had.No...she doesn't. Nor do tens of millions of other women in this country.It's pretty sad when so many people on this thread are crying foul at people using her death as a political pulpit, and then you do pretty much the same thing.

Could you please give ONE example of the right trashing the left at a funeral? The right had their chance ata President Reagan's funeral, but never uttered one word about the left. not one. To Use the funeral of a leader and make no mistake, Coretta was a leader to push a political agenda, take potshots, disrupt a solemn occasion and snidely bash the President was and is what the democrats are about these days, trash talking, no ideas, no agenda except "we hate Bush"

I have noticed you throw stuff out there with not a single fact to back up what you try to put forth.

on Feb 10, 2006

Why don't all you red necks go back to your trailer and pull out you red sheets. It is pretty obvious that you are all racist. What did Mrs. King do to you all but try to end the way you treat the black race. Everyone who has something negative to say is a true RED NECK and God knows your heart. ENJOY Hell.

on Feb 10, 2006

Why don't all you red necks go back to your trailer and pull out you white sheets. It is pretty obvious that you are all racist. What did Mrs. King do to you all but try to end the way you treat the black race. Everyone who has something negative to say is a true RED NECK and God knows your heart. ENJOY Hell.

on Feb 10, 2006

Why don't all you red necks go back to your trailer and pull out your white sheets. It is pretty obvious that you are all racist. What did Mrs. King do to you all but try to end the way you treat the black race. Everyone who has something negative to say is a true RED NECK and God knows your heart. ENJOY Hell.

on Feb 10, 2006

drmiler

on Feb 10, 2006

You call it "Foreplay" and the slaves that were massacred call it MURDER! That just goes to show
What a real BIGOT U ARE!!!!!!! The site should be called : The KKK USER.com
So What you have black friends........If they only knew .I have wasted enough time..on the KKK.com,
You can't educate Trailer Trash.........

And you can't reason with the ignorant (which you seem to be). If anyone here is a bigot, it's you. So take your bigoted attitude and beat it.

Dr Guy

on Feb 11, 2006

Why dont you quit being a coward, and come out from under your sheet? What a complete moron! Hiding behind his mother's skirt and sniping. That takes a lot of courage.

joeKnowledge

on Feb 11, 2006

Well... I have to say many don't quite get it. I was on the bus and a few kids were talking about it and they were saying, "what exactly did she do?"

First, just because Jackie O didn't get it doesn't mean someone else can

Second, she did allot more than eing a wife to a husband that did allot for others and did allot to her in times of marritail hardship

Finally, while I don't agree to all of the hoopla, I can see why she got it and its because she was the women who supported a man who changed the way America looks upon its own residents.

I think many here under estimate what Dr. King did for this nation (whether you black or white). Believe it when I say that the reasons why we have such a rubost economy is because EVERYONE can be involved in it. Not just a select few. Dr King made it so that even if someone thought 'yeah your white, but you don't have blue eyes so..' thata it wouldn't get to far.

Believe me when I say this: Black people can obviuosly be segragated, but the idea of 'I'm better than you because I was born that way' would have hurt many people posting on this message board who happen to be white, but forieners or from some communist country or from 'the dirty south' who refuses to believe the south lost.

So for those who juts can't see why, I think you should look again.

I don't quite get all the hoopla over Mrs King, but if it goes there, it should be understandable.

By the way, Jackie O is not a Coretta Scott King... she did NOT have to drink out of a 'colored' water fountian.

joeKnowledge

on Feb 11, 2006

I also want to add this:

Without King or his supportive wife, the many people who made this country great but had to prove they (and their ideas) were worthy now get a real chance to be apart of the economy as a whole.

Remember WWI and WWI? If the American Goverment decided that they just were NOT going to use women to replace men in factories and other mostly male jobs, they would have HAD TO keep men from the war and put them to work at home.

What about all the advances in science, business and invesntions made by people of color or women or 'the forieners' and 'dirty south' made before Dr. ing? Do you think there would have been more if it wasn't for the fact that many were stopped in their tracks because they just were not white enough? Weren't christian enough? wasn't male enough?

Don't let the civil rights movement fool you. It wasn't just about rights, it was about access to oppertunity and the outcome is a huge economy full of innovation, human resources and power.

So I have to say that Mrs King has a little more over than some other wifes of leaders.

bakerstreet

on Feb 11, 2006

"Without King or his supportive wife, the many people who made this country great but had to prove they (and their ideas) were worthy now get a real chance to be apart of the economy as a whole.

That's bunk, frankly. The civil rights movement was big machine, and King was one of the shinier cogs that people noticed. It's criminal that he has a national holiday in light of the thousands of people of all races that worked to make change, and also gave their lives. It should immediately be changed to "civil rights day" or some such in honor of the other people who fought and died for the rights of ALL races.

bakerstreet

on Feb 11, 2006

That was the problem i had with the statement that 'if it weren't for him..." yadda yadda. That's like saying if it weren't for Harriet Tubman, there'd still be slaves. Abolitionism was driven by literally hundreds of years of WASP involvement, too, but you'll never see a day devoted to them.

I hope that we can reverse the whole MLK day/Black History Month stuff eventually to be more equitable. The murdered white civil rights workers in Mississippi gave as much as MLK, as did many who devoted themselves to it and who are now forgotten.

davad70

on Feb 12, 2006

I have noticed you throw stuff out there with not a single fact to back up what you try to put forth.

What exactly have I "thrown out there" without facts. That's particularly amusing coming from you. I don't think I've seen too many links in any of your posts. They seem to all be "Ramblings of a twisted mind". There's not too much I post here without links, so I'd love to see some examples of what you're talking about instead of regurgitating baloney rhetoric from Dr. Guy.

I really don't mind that you just spout off all kinds of BS though. I don't come here for the news and the hard facts, I get those from other places. What is the obsession with some of you guys about "proving" everything you say. You're entitled to your opinion, no matter how sick and twisted it may be, just as I do mine.

I sincerely would like to see what you're talking about with me throwing things out there without facts though.

ParaTed2k

on Feb 13, 2006

I wonder, how long would slavery had lasted if a whole bunch of White people didn't decide it was a national tragedy?

Nothing would have changed if the majority didn't decide that enslaving other human beings was just plain evil.

Of course, everyone should be proud of their heritage, but we should be proud of our heritage because it is what made us who we are today.

Family everything, Race means nothing.

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