Four U.S. presidents, senators and celebrities joined thousands of mourners Tuesday who filled the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King’s daughter Bernice is a minister, to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King, the “first lady of the civil rights movement.”

Why President George W. Bush was allowed on the podium is a mystery, considering the Republican Party’s blatant racism and anti-Civil Rights record over the past 40 years.

Bush certainly appeared uncomfortable on the stage, especially when Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin took a shot at the U.S. government’s policy surrounding the war in Iraq and compared it to another unwinnable war in Vietnam, a war opposed by Martin Luther King Jr.

Four Presidents Join Mourners at King Funeral

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