Boulevard of broken dreams

Coretta Scott King, wife of MLK, died Monday night in Baja California, Mexico. Sad news. And, as expected, leaders around the nation are expressing their sadness. (Bloggers, too.)

In Philadelphia, we had Philly NAACP head J. Wyatt Mondesire chiming in:

We don’t have those kind of people around anymore. And that’s the kind of void that we have to carry now, that a woman who was almost saintly is now gone. And who can carry that on? I don’t know. I just don’t know.

He then added, “But, you know, in recent years Ms. King had stopped running with the ball and tried to be too much like a white civil rights leader. Frankly, Coretta is a testament of fallen dreams who perpetuated a fraud while hiding behind excuses dripping in make-believe racial stereotypes.”

Coretta Scott King dies [CNN.com]
Phila. NAACP Head Remembers Mrs. King’s Legacy [KYW 1060]
Donovan McNabb: Mediocre at best [Philadelphia Sunday Sun]
PWD on Jerry Mondesire