Get the mic away from her!

[TomInTib]

Bunch of white folks singing "Lift Every Voice and Sing".
Someone has a mic and is singing so off-key I am LOL.
WhiteHouse- Rosa Parks thing. MSNBC
Thank God they broke away.

[malaise]

1. CSpan has live coverage

of the Memorial Service at the DC AME Church. I'm watching to hear Dorothy Heights and Julian Bond. Lovely to see Kennedy and Conyers. Poor Frist could not sing along to Lift Every Voice and Sing.

[TomInTib]

2. Looked like one of those bad Hercules movies.

If I was an elected official and was going to a scripted (and I do not mean in a negative way) event of this somber importance I would, at the least, bone up on the lyrics of the most important singalong in the program so I could lip it.
Most of those folks were just moving their lips.

[malaise]

3. Did you see him trying to rock the head

during this lady's classic performance of negro spirituals. Man we all need comedy. Any moment now he'll catch the spirit.

[TomInTib]

4. Looked like a Steve Martin parody.

If you ain't got it, stand still!

[malaise]

5. Shucks it was Brownback not Frist

The Rethug from Kansas. No doubt he's putting his name in the 2008 hat.
Conyers gets a standing ovation before he says a word. Respect you lovely decent man.
Edit - correct headline and add sentence.

[goclark]

6. Opray just spoke, nice words

and a big clap.

[malaise]

7. Nothing like my girl Julia Carson though

man she just mentioned Big Dog and brought out the cheers. She's fabulous.

[goclark]

8. I have never seen her before! She is funny nt

Just got a huge cheer!


I will have to watch TIVO because she was saying wonderful things.

[malaise]

9. Me neither but she's terrific n/t

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

11. I absolutely love Julia Carson...

She's an absolute hoot!!!

Does she represent the Gary area in Indiana.

[TomInTib]

10. Julia was just wonderful....

and she didn't care one whit about the 2 minute limit.

"I'm just getting warmed up" in two minutes.

94 years old and as cool as it gets. I just loved her- wish I had a copy of her piece.

on edit: Julia Carlson- sorry

[mia]

12. Glad to find this thread.

Wonderful speakers here today.

[snowbear]

13. When they carried Rosa's casket out of the Rotunda...

...the hymn they were singing had such incredible rhythm and was so well done! :headbang:

It was a "bluesie sounding hymn".. I feel like a space cadet right now though, because I can't remember the words.. :eyes:

[goclark]

14. I missed the Rotunda! Will cspan show it again,please

[mia]

15. Here's some audio - Thank you Rosa.

http://www.itookpictures.com/mp3/thankyourosa.mp3

[goclark]

16. Cicily Tyson just recited "Crystal Stair"

portion of the poem by my hero Langston Hughes!


Standing ovation!

[malaise]

18. I love Langston but Claude McKay

was my poet of that period.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

[goclark]

20. They were both outstanding poets, thanks for sharing

his words.

[malaise]

17. Thanks I rushed home to see this

Cicely was also great. Mel made a great political statement. I'll support South West Airlines now.
Edit - sp.

[RepublicanElephant]

19. yikes! just saw rummy sitting in the pews...

unfortunately, he doesn't know the words to "we shall overcome".

[goclark]

21. He was probably singing NOT overcome

The slime, why was he there?

[malaise]

22. Lots of hypocrites were there

but they couldn't spoil that send off. I was in tears as they sang We Shall Overcome because of the joy of the occasion and the reality of New Orleans post Katrina.
Someone should tell W that black people are democrats. That was too obvious. Rummy was probably thinking of how to overcome what we overcame.

[goclark]

23. Well said, you got that right! nt