Truth-telling at Aretha Franklin's funeral

In The Daily Caller, Peter Hasson reports that the man Aretha Franklin chose to do the eulogy at her funeral Friday launched a scathing criticism of black-on-black violence. Pastor Jasper Williams said,

“It amazes me how it is when the police kill one of us, we are ready to protest, march destroy innocent property. We’re ready to loot, steal, whatever we want. But when we kill 100 of us, nobody says anything. Nobody does anything,” Williams said.

“Black on black crime, we’re all doing time. We are locked up in our minds. There’s got to be a better way. We must stop this today. Think down, look down, walk down, talk down, act down — most times we are low down. Where is your soul?” the pastor continued.

“If you choose to ask me today, do black lives matter? Let me answer like this: no, black lives do not matter; black lives will not matter; black lives ought not to matter; black lives should not matter; black lives must not matter until black people start respecting black lives and stop killing ourselves — black lives can never matter.”

Williams, whom Franklin reportedly personally chose to give her eulogy, also lamented that absent fathers force too many black women to raise their children by themselves.

The pastor described absent parents as a form of “abortion after birth” that is damaging to children who experience it.

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