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Sherlene: Aretha Franklin Tribute, Quotes Commentary

Aretha Franklin aka The Hummingbird (1942 - 2018). "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." -Lori Holtz The following song was actually a hymn created (July 24, 1725) by a captain of a Negro slave ship who became a Christian and changed his racist occupation. Later, it would become the anthem of the southern KKK associations. Today, many Christian church members still sing the song during a funeral gathering or Sunday morning worship. From Ms. Aretha and the congregation, can you hear the 1970s community societal woes?        Are you afraid of people-of-color preachers of the Gospel?        "Why do we who are the intelligent human animals--homosapiens--fear, hate, dislike and despise                  other humans who are coloured differently from us?" -Michael Hollings        "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind." -William Sh...