This was so much more, Dawn, than just a funeral or a celebration of life.

It really was a call for monumental change.

It was a call for monumental change and for laws to be passed to help prevent this from

happening again, Pamela.

But I do have to say that on a personal note, and that's everyone is feeling from their

hearts today watching this.

When you have a funeral service or a going home ceremony as it is called much of the time

in the black community, those are usually reserved for the most intimate members of the

family or loved ones.

And we are getting to witness over and over on a national stage, on national and international

television, the grief and the sadness and the suffering of many families across this

country and most of them black families.

The family today handled themselves with dignity, with grace in front of millions of people

while millions of people are watching around the world.

Again, this is something that is reserved for the most special family members and the

most intimate moments of a family.

And this one is being played out in front of cameras and it's heartbreaking to watch,

but we are watching along with the people there in Memphis and watching along with millions

around the world.

And it is a sad occasion that sadly has been being played out way too often for public

cameras when public cameras should not be in this type of event.

Absolutely.

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