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Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne
LOL!
See, I'm white, and I see the opposite is true in regard to the demographics of family.
In my experience, black folks are most likely to be close to home. They are raised with their cousins and aunties while the white folks see their kin during the Christmas holidays.
Funny how we see things, huh?
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HO, I think that he is pretty much right about the logistics about funerals. The issue is that in my experiences with black funerals, distant extended family members are much more likely to want to come home for funerals. Most often when we have funerals, we have cousins and nephews flying in from California and New York, etc. While it is true that in many black families, a lot of family tends to be close, it is also true that in the Black community, distant and extended family members are very likely to return for family funerals. Funerals are a pretty big deal. Most of my family on my father's side lives in Panama City, Fl, but if even a second cousin died, we would probably all come in from all parts of the country.
In our church, the average funeral attendance for a member or one of their family members would have to be a couple of hundred.
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