Written by: Anonymous

Were you that upset by the death of Coretta Scott King? If you're like me, you probably didn't care that much.

It's not that I dislike her or don't respect what her husband accomplished, I just knew that as soon as she passed away her actual identity had become irrelevent, and that she had become nothing more than a symbol for the black grievance industry to rally around. And since I don't really care for the black grievance industry, I didn't really have much inclination or interest to follow King's funeral.

I initially told myself that I shouldn't look at the issue so coldly. But then today, I read this account of her funeral. A funeral should be a celebration and memorial of an individual's life. By moving the focus to President Bush, the speakers demonstrated they were more concerned with him than with King, and the crowd's approval of his speech demonstrated they were as well. The moment the speakers turned the funeral into an anti-Bush attack ad, was the moment they stripped King of her remaining humanity and transformed her into nothing more than a cold corpse used as a political tool.

So as heartless and as cold as it might make me, I am not losing a wink of sleep over King's death. But at least I do show her more respect than some of those selected to speak at her funeral.