Random: anybody been to a white funeral?

[old pig]

yeah coworker’s husband…they were both in their 70s…I was literally the only black person in attendance…it was a funeral so no one was really paying attention to me except my boss who seemingly made a “why are you here?” face…he’s always been tho…never said anything to me but I’ve heard other ppl say shyt and he was good friends with a redneck at the job I almost got into it with…plus I’ve heard of them both making off-color jokes about asian and latino ppl…no doubt in my mind they’ve probably said some shyt about black ppl too…again tho anything I heard was relayed to me

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

yes, my HS history and econ teacher... saddest funeral, he died of a heart attack in his sleep at the age of 34, on his birthday which is also valentine's day, thin healthy dude. he was at school the day before feeling under the weather thinking he might have been coming down with the flu, died that night. had a two year old and a two month old daughter

they were catholic so it was a catholic service...catholic stuff is of course more subdue than protestant (evangelical) church. things covered like prayer, eulogy, words from "____" and words from the priest were similar, of course there's less soulful singing, but there were hymns. it might have been two hours because they did open it to students and let us take part in the "you've got 2 mins to speak"

i still get sad thinking about him, that was my favorite teacher, he wrote my college recommendations, he died before i got my acceptances, he was super excited about me applying to stanford and i never got to tell him i got in

 

[CopiousX]

It's usually hot and the devil comes out to greet everyone.

 

[old pig]

It's usually hot and the devil comes out to greet everyone.

!!!

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Wow that's crazy, I've been to many white weddings but zero funerals. Never realized this.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

White people rarely invite blacks to their special events like weddings and funerals.

Black people are the opposite. You can rarely go to a black wedding or funeral and not see a CAC.

I've definitely been to white people weddings. No funerals though. Just went to my uncle's funeral last week. The only white person was his ex wife, lol.

Edit: nope. Went to one white funeral. A dude who worked for me that committed that cause his wife left him. Funeral was mad awkward because his family was super Catholic and suicide is a mortal sin.

 

[get these nets]

OP

Why attend the funeral of a former co-worker's child?

 

[rabbid]

Not a chance. Not trying to hear a whole lotta--

"wow hiii so who are you wiiiiiiith"

"is this how your people would handle it, its been hard for us"

"Just going thru it but how's the foooooood"

"thanks for coming, you can sit wherever you'd like"

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Yes. And it was unbearably white. We were the only black people there You think you’re okay with being around cacs until it’s 200 of them and you.

You be praying them devils don't have a flashback

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Yes.

We played Hackeysack afterwards

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

i went to a white persons "funeral", but it was a mixed crowd. dude was basically a hippy type so his daughter just had a gathering at an area where they used to drum circle and everybody said some words and hung out a bit. no burial cuz ashes. she spreads some ashes whenever she visits his memorable places like beaches.

 

[valet]

OP

Why attend the funeral of a former co-worker's child?

Well, from his fb posts, I feel for him. This his eldest daughter and she was only 28. Struggled with drugs all her adult life. Haven't seen him since 2005 so it's a chance to catch up him and possibly see some of my old co-workers.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

Never lol

 

[invalid]

Been to many white funerals.

The only two differences is that their funerals are not long and they don't have all the dramatics.

I remember going to the funeral of my old neighbor, an Italian woman, who watched me grow up and was legit like a second grandmother to me. I get to the funeral like I lost my own grandmother....dropping some straight thug tears, and I notice all the white people standing around just smiling and laughing. I'm looking around like wtf twilight zone am I in? Think they just grieve differently. Her husband, who was Irish, comes over and introduce me to more of their extended family that I hadn't met. Everybody's jovial, I'm boohooing...

I hindsight, I think I came off like this.

And I think they were getting a kick out of it.

 

[Fanservice]

Went to the wake of a white classmate who died in my junior year of high school. He was popular and played football, so everybody was there. Actual funeral was just for family and people close to the parents but I wouldn’t have went anyway.

I wouldn’t mind going to a white wedding tho. Could be entertaining and I might meet a nice cornfed PAWG who gets worked up at weddings