Farrakhan out front at the Aretha Franklin funeral cropped from news photos

And Democrats dare to call us conservatives "racist"! What Chutzpah!

2005: Obama with Farrakhan

Monica Showalter  "The funeral of Aretha Franklin was a defining moment for the black, civil-rights-linked establishment, yet who should turn up in its front row but Nation of Islam chief and notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. The so-called 'leader' who calls Hitler "a good man." Yet the press, particularly MSNBC, is trying to cover it up.

"That certainly leaves a double-sour note on what could have been at least a respectable occasion. Seriously, how'd that freak get in there, and why the heck was he seated in the front row, alongside the other so-called leaders of the black "community," such as the just-barely-past-the-respectable line Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and America's supposed "first black president," Bill Clinton?

"It is what it is, and what it shows is that Franklin, at best, didn't pay attention to what kind of black people she was supporting in her long and storied musical career. After all, back in the 1960s and early 1970s, she gave a lot of money to support the criminal defense of Angela Davis, who apparently let a gun slip in to a prison to help her then-boyfriend, George Jackson, something for which she was eventually and controversially acquitted. According to Franklin's Wikipedia page, she explained her support this way:" . . .

Now you see him . . .

Joe Banner

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It is beyond disappointing to see Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklins funeral. His hate and lack of belief in real equality for all should preclude it.

. . . Now you don't. What Farrakhan? I don't see no Farrakhan.