BUT IT GOT SURPRISINGLY LITTLE ATTENTION FROM THE PRESS’S KEEPERS OF PUBLIC MORALITY: Louis Farrakhan Presence At Aretha Franklin Funeral Draws Strong Online Reactions. All seated right up front: Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Clinton. Or as somebody said on Twitter, “three racists and a rapist.”

Louis Farrakhan, from left, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and former President Bill Clinton attend the funeral service for Aretha Franklin at Greater Grace Temple, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Detroit. Franklin died Aug. 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. (AP photo and caption.)