Typical, isn’t this? We can’t possibly have Prince George share the stage with someone he knows is a vocal critic, can we? Better to “disinvite” a long time friend of Dr. King, who had been scheculed to speak at Coretta Scott King’s funeral.
Legendary entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on Tuesday explained his absence from Coretta Scott King’s funeral.
Belafonte told reporters before a speech at Case Western Reserve University that President Bush influenced the King family to disinvite him from the funeral in suburban Atlanta on Feb. 7.
Belafonte, known to be a friend of Martin Luther King Jr., said he was told about the decision the day before the funeral, at which he had been scheduled to speak.
The King children made the final decision, Belafonte said, but they were “fiercely intimidated by the president’s representatives.”
Belafonte has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration.
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What a rip off. This is the kind of person we have in our White HOuse! He is such a wimp. If he can’t take the heat, then maybe he ought to get out of the kitchen. Frankly he should have never been in the kitchen. I would have had him there if not on stage just to agitate the nitwit, but sitting in the front row staring at him the entire time. Like it was, after all, her funeral, not his..however it would have been great to have been.
How disgusting! I wish the kids wouldn’t have folded under the pressure! I know that Coretta wasn’t insulted, she knows who her real friends are…..but the funeral is for those of us who go on living without our loved ones and it is so bitter that “W” was in and Harry was out. It’s just sickening for those of us who carry on without Coretta!