'Black lives do not matter': Aretha Franklin's family disappointed with 'distasteful' eulogy by reverend
The family of the late Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin has come forward and revealed that they were less than happy with the eulogy that had been delivered at the funeral. Reverend Jasper Williams Jr. has been slammed by the family after the funeral for attempting to make a political speech out of his eulogy. At one point during the speech, he even claimed that Black lives don't matter until Black people stop killing each other.
Among the throngs of devastated people who attended the funeral was music icon Stevie Wonder and he was definitely not impressed with the remark. He immediately shouted back to the reverend on stage: "Black lives matter!"
The biggest shocker of the night came from Franklin's nephew Vaughn Franklin. He told the Associated Press in an interview that the entire speech made by the pastor was "very, very distasteful" and that it "caught the family off guard". Vaughn said, "He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogize her".