Aretha Franklin personified black girl magic — and in no way did she ever "work" for Donald Trump, said a university professor who called the president a "dimwitted dictator" while speaking Friday at Franklin's funeral.

Michael Eric Dyson, a sociology professor at Georgetown University, was referring to Trump's recent comment about Franklin previously working for him.

"And then, this orange apparition had the nerve to say she worked for him," Dyson said to applause. "You lugubrious leech. You doppelganger of deceit and deviance. You lethal liar, you dimwitted dictator, you foolish fascist. She ain’t work for you. She worked above you. She worked beyond you. Get your preposition right.

"Then, he got the nerve to say he gone grab it. That ain't what Aretha Franklin said. 'I’m a give you something you can feel.' Like the brothers in the streets say, 'tap lightly, like a woodpecker with a headache.' So, don’t you sully the memory of our great queen. Aretha Franklin was an original."

Dyson said Franklin had feminist sensibilities, and "the independent autonomous reach of black female identity was radiant in her rhetoric."

"She was black girl magic before there was black girl magic," he said.

Dyson noted that Franklin recorded the song "Never Grow Old" at age 14 and again at 30. The latter version carried the weight of her life experiences, he said.

"Between 14 and 30, there was a lot of living. ... There was the reality, of the hurt and pain, the ardor, the ecstasy, the suffering and the reality that we had to confront as a black people. And don’t get it twisted. She was black, without apology or excuse. And she was American, without argument or exception.

"She was black 'cause she was from the blackest city in the world. Detroit. I know ya’ll jealous. You from Chicago. Philadelphia. Pittsburgh. You good, but you ain’t got the D. … Faygo Red Pop. Vernor's Ginger Ale. Coney Island hot dog."

Dyson said while much of today's music focuses on "cars and money and glory," Franklin's music had a deeper message.

"She was about getting Angela Davis out of jail. She was about working with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. She was about transforming the existence of black America.

"Now, negros scared to say they black. Scared to show up at a too black place. That’s why some black folk ain't here today. They sending letters, they don’t want to get up in this blackness. They don’t want to feel the nasty power of this blackness. We are black in Detroit. We don’t care. Take your shoes off, dip it in the water, get baptized."

Dyson got laughs from the crowd at the beginning of his speech when he referenced Bill and Hillary Clinton, who both attended the service at Greater Grace Temple.

"To President Clinton," he said, "and her husband, Bill.”

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