{"id":175715,"date":"2018-09-03T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=175715"},"modified":"2018-09-06T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:57:10","slug":"the-many-things-that-were-wrong-with-aretha-franklins-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=175715","title":{"rendered":"The Many Things That Were Wrong With Aretha Franklin\u2019s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vigilant Citizen — Sept 2, 2018<\/h1>\n

\"Ariana<\/a><\/p>\n

The funeral of Aretha Franklin was a public event that was attended by a slew of celebrities such as Ariana Grande and the Clintons. And they made it weird. Here are some of the things that were wrong about the funeral.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Aretha Frankin was known as the Queen of Soul and the events surrounding her funeral were definitely fit for a queen. The 8-hours long service was\u00a0streamed by several news networks such as CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The Word Network and BET. It was lead by Bishop\u00a0Charles H. Ellis III and was addressed by Rev.\u00a0Al Sharpton.\u00a0 Among those who paid tribute to Aretha at the service were\u00a0Ariana Grande,\u00a0Bill Clinton,\u00a0Faith Hill,\u00a0Fantasia,\u00a0The Clark Sisters,\u00a0Ronald Isley,\u00a0Chaka Khan,\u00a0Jennifer Holliday,\u00a0Jennifer Hudson,\u00a0Shirley Caesar,\u00a0Stevie Wonder,\u00a0Eric Holder,\u00a0Gladys Knight,\u00a0Tyler Perry,\u00a0Smokey Robinson, and\u00a0Yolanda Adams. In short, it was a made-for-media event.<\/h5>\n
When I saw the picture of Franklin laying inside her casket, legs crossed, while wearing ruby-red 5-inch Christian Louboutin pumps, I sensed that the funeral would be \u2026 different.<\/h5>\n
\"Aretha<\/a>

Aretha Franklin in respose. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

During Franklin\u2019s 4-day \u201cfarewell tour\u201d, she wore 4 different outfits, complete with makeup, custom-made earrings and so forth.<\/h5>\n
At her funeral Bill Clinton even joked:<\/h5>\n
\u201cI want to say, and I hope God will forgive me,\u00a0I was so glad when I got here and the casket was still open, because I said, \u2018I wonder what my friend\u2019s got on today. I wanna see what the girl is carrying out.\u201d<\/h5>\n
One can argue that Aretha would have approved of this funerary display based in style, fashion, and luxury. She lived as a diva so it is only normal that she would \u201cdepart\u201d as a diva, right? I guess, I have no idea.<\/h5>\n
However, I\u2019m pretty sure she wouldn\u2019t have approved of the other incidents that occurred at her funeral and the mass media response to it. Here are some of the things that were just wrong with the funeral.<\/h5>\n

Using Her Death for Politics<\/h2>\n

Continues …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I saw the picture of Franklin laying inside her casket, legs crossed, wearing red 5-inch Christian Louboutin pumps, I sensed that the funeral would be \u2026 different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175729,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175715\/revisions\/175729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}