Just got back from my first "black funeral"

[Marty Champions]

I've never been to a black funeral, but I've been to a lot of church services in various states.  They go on FOREVER.  Hours!  There's always a lot of shouting and "praise the Lord".  Always a lot of "passion" from the preacher.  The women dress to the nines.  The music is usually fantastic.

Awesome rendition here!
Her voice is effortless.

damn she really upstaged steven there

[The True Adonis]

Thats not what Grandpa used to listen to.

[Kwon_2]

thats why i sometimes act a neegul falcons when dealing with afro amercians, cause i know they wont appreciate proper white folk english, im not exactly convinced the old dialect is worth preserving except only for its ability to capture the imagination

Johnny, could you perchance make a youtube-video where you use these neegulite terms and demonstrate how you talk amongst the neeguls?

Would be interesting to hear.

[The True Adonis]

Grandpa told us the day he met Cole Porter he also met the finest male athlete to have ever come from Kennebunkport.  Needless to say, Grandpa was much more impressed with Jake, the high school football All-Star than Cole Porter.

[Obvious Gimmick]

A friends (black) brother died....shot of course.... I went to the funeral and it was crazy...band doing drum rolls and crashing cymbals when the reverend made a point. A lot of hallelujahs and Jesus help me's.


Fat nurses fanning the family. People falling out in the isle..... It was fucking great.  Good soul food too.

Go to a jew funeral, that's as boring as.....well.....as a funeral

[Parker]

A friends (black) brother died....shot of course.... I went to the funeral and it was crazy...band doing drum rolls and crashing cymbals when the reverend made a point. A lot of hallelujahs and Jesus help me's.


Fat nurses fanning the family. People falling out in the isle..... It was fucking great.  Good soul food too.

Go to a jew funeral, that's as boring as.....well.....as a funeral

Man, they didn't go with the full band? Drums, organ, e-guitar, bass, tambourine, choir?
Enough to wake the dead or the dearly departed.

When my grandfather recently died, they didn't have the whole 9, but the one who did the eulogy, put it down!

[Alex23]

Any mention of Jesus at my funeral - apart from saying something like "Yo, this brotha was most certainly the latter-day Black Jesus" - and I'll put a curse on everyone present.

Fuck yea Chief. which one of your parent is jew?

[LATS]

It's funny you mention Robert e lee.. As I have told you my g g grandfather fought with lee.. But one of my favorite quotes is from one of the officers at lees surrender.. A union officer (I wish I could remember which one) heard lee speak for the first time.. He stated " it is no wonder his men fought so hard for him. After listening to him talk I was ready to put on the butternut and fight for him myself" ..

[leadhead]

I've been to one black funeral myself. It was a coworkers wife who was young and died in a car wreck. It was in the middle of nowhere off a maze of dirt roads, like where an old primitive baptist type church would be located but this was a black church. It was a little too backwoods for me and i have lived in a small rural town my whole life. They were kind of loud and very upbeat compared to all of the other funerals I've been to where younger people had died. It was a mix of southern black culture but they tried to class it up.

Her dad was some sort of diplomat and they seemed to talk about him more than anything else. It was just over the top weird. They didn't recongnize her husband at all and it kind of pissed me off that they didn't.

[The True Adonis]

Great Great Grandpa used to bury black people in the yard behind the pasture and he would say, "Oh well, I will just buy another one."

[Archer77]

Great Great Grandpa used to bury black people in the yard behind the pasture and he would say, "Oh well, I will just buy another one."

You're killing me today. 

[Mr Nobody]

pretty cool adonis

thats why i sometimes act a neegul falcons when dealing with afro amercians, cause i know they wont appreciate proper white folk english, im not exactly convinced the old dialect is worth preserving except only for its ability to capture the imagination

theres alot of dull pronounciations and words that can sound the same that would be indistinguishable, wich leads to the ultimate question, could blacks in these times truly understand what each other was saying, or was there some sort of psychic connection involved that allowed for proper discernment among dialect between afro american of that past time

Put a basketball goal up they will come running.

[Soul Crusher]

A buddy of mine passed away from cancer, and it was at a black church. Man, was it different than any funeral I've been to. It's weird, you realize the difference culturally between people in this country, even though we're still all the same nationality. I will admit though, at the end, it was like an episode of South Park, where it takes a turn and has nothing to do with the person who died, but all about Jesus. Anyway, aside from that, there were things being said, such as "you may have had bullets go by your ear, but you alive" or " you may have been big pimpin, but the lawd can take you at any time" and a lot of hallelujah and what not, it was a good service. It seemed to be more upbeat than a "white funeral", but maybe that's because most funerals I've been to we're old people, and this dude was 34. Anyway, any thoughts or experiences from members?

Did you check your pockets on the way out?