Rev. Jasper Williams Jr was personally chosen by Franklin to speak
The funeral of Motown diva Aretha Franklin has seemingly been the left’s opportunity to engage in more Trump bashing, but a Black pastor went against the grain and criticised the Soros-funded Black Lives Matter movement.
Rev. Jasper Williams Jr, who was personally chosen by “Queen of Soul” Franklin to speak at her funeral, criticised Black culture for losing its way and succumbing to phony movements, funded by globalists like George Soros.
Williams Jr. enraged liberals with his conservative message of family values and the connection between fatherless homes and crime.
“Where is your soul, Black man? As I look in your house, there are no fathers in the home no more,” Williams asked during the ceremony.
“(A)s proud, beautiful and fine as our Black women are, one thing a Black woman cannot do, a Black woman cannot raise a Black boy to be a man,” he warned.
The WJ reports: The pastor chosen by Franklin pointed out that it took a “provider” father and “nurturer” mother to raise children, particularly boys.
That conservative view, of course, flies in the face of “progressive” messaging that promotes single parenthood and rejects traditional gender roles.
Williams was just getting warmed up.
As the star-studded audience looked on, he took on another of the left’s sacred cows: Black Lives Matter.
“It amazes me how it is when the police kills one of us we’re ready to protest, march, destroy innocent property,” the African American minister stated.
He pointed out how black-on-black violence in places like Chicago and Detroit has been largely ignored by the very groups it impacts the most.
“We’re ready to loot, steal whatever we want, but when we kill 100 of us, nobody says anything, nobody does anything,” he continued, falling into a heartfelt rhythm.
“Black on black crime, we’re all doing time, we’re locked up in our mind, there’s got to be a better way, we must stop this today,” he declared.
If there was any doubt that he was criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement for failing to take responsibility for African American problems, his next sentences cleared it up.
“No, black lives do not matter,” Williams said.
“Black lives will not matter, black lives ought not matter, black lives should not matter, black lives must not matter until black people start respecting black lives and stop killing ourselves.”
Predictably, that message didn’t sit well with liberals.
“Social media critics called his eulogy ‘a disaster’ and questioned why he was chosen as the one to honor Franklin,” reported the AP.
Some social media users quickly called Williams “ignorant” — but he appears to have reality on his side.
“Department of Justice statistics showed that between 1980 and 2008, 52 percent of all homicides were committed by black males,” as we previously reported based on publicly available data. Remember, African Americans are only 13 percent of the U.S. population, and black males only about 6 percent.
“With the police shooting of black men taking the center media stage, current statistics show that at current rates it would take 40 years for police to kill as many black men as were killed by other black men in 2012 alone,” our report found.
“The evidence does not support the conclusion that American police are waging a racist war against blacks,” a recent Manhattan Institute report explained. “The Black Lives Matter movement has been a counterproductive distraction from the real violence problem facing black communities: violence from criminals, not the police.”
It’s the same story with Williams’ message about black families. The left may hate it, but the facts back him up. Even Barack Obama has pointed this out.
“More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children,” Obama said on Father’s Day at a Chicago church in 2008.
“(C)hildren who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.” Again, that was Barack Obama — and stop the presses, he was right.
One of Aretha Frankin’s last wishes was for her family friend and pastor to deliver her eulogy.
This message was so important that he put it front and center where key members of the black community could hear it.
Maybe we should give that a little respect.