The Gantt Report, By Lucius Gantt

You know, the "bigger" you are, the more people will show up at your funeral services and lie about how well they knew you and how much they loved you!

I watched a great deal of the services for Coretta Scott King on television. I didn’t plan on watching but there was nothing else to watch on TV that Tuesday afternoon.

Coretta’s home going services pointed out something that we all should be aware of and that is if you want your home going to be done right, you have to plan it yourself!

Although I grew up in Atlanta and attended high school with Coretta’s daughter Yolanda King, I don’t pretend to know Yolanda’s parents on a first name basis.

However, I do know that, famous or infamous, children, for the most part, do not know the friends of their parents.

If you don’t talk to your children and tell them the names of people who are important to you or persons who played an important role in your life, your home going will not be YOUR home going. Instead it will be a stage for your children’s wrongful ideas of how you want to leave this earth.

Nobody, including Coretta, wants a six-hour funeral service. Nobody wants speakers at their funeral that wouldn’t speak to you while you were still living. And, no one should want a home going celebration to turn into a partisan political bashing event.

I think the King children orchestrated Coretta’s funeral service. I’m sure they wanted their mother to have a respectable funeral. Perhaps one or two of her children felt it would be good to suck up to some slimy, degenerate and devilish office holders for whatever reason.

I’m not dead but I came close to dying when I suffered a massive stroke while driving an automobile and crashed into a utility pole.

My ex-wife and I were in a Tallahassee hospital’s Intensive Care Unit at the same time for different reasons. When her friends would visit her, someone would send them a couple of doors down to see me. I ran everyone out of the room and threatened to call hospital security. Why? If you didn’t want to see me healthy, I didn’t want to see you while I was on life support.

Life is precious and far too short. If you care about someone, tell the person that you love them now. Don’t fight to say a few words at a funeral service.

Coretta King’s service had speakers that disliked Coretta and her husband. People tried to use Coretta’s funeral to get publicity for themselves. Satanic intent was widespread in the congregation on that day.

When Coretta passed Secret Servicemen were present at her funeral and when my mother passed, bodyguards were on hand for Thelma Mattox too.

I was not going to let anyone clown at my mother’s home going and, in my opinion, Coretta’s children should have felt the same way.

Where Coretta is now, there is no pain, no suffering, no crying and no opportunistic politicians! (Contact Lucius at theganttreport@comcast.net)