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Funerals Held for Aretha Franklin and John McCain

HeadlineSep 04, 2018

In recent days the nation paid tribute to the legendary singer Aretha Franklin and Senator John McCain. On Saturday, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush gave eulogies to McCain at his funeral at the Washington National Cathedral. President Trump was not invited and spent the day golfing. Speakers at Aretha Franklin’s funeral in Detroit included former President Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who hailed her as “the soundtrack to the civil rights movement,” and Georgetown sociologist Michael Eric Dyson.

Michael Eric Dyson: “And then this orange apparition had the nerve to say she worked for him. You lugubrious leech, you dopey doppelganger of deceit and deviance, you lethal liar, you dimwitted dictator, you foolish fascist, she ain’t work for you. She worked above you. She worked beyond you. Get your preposition right!”

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