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ChisolmTrailDem

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20. Somber occassion? I though the S. African custom was to celebrate the

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 07:34 PM

Dec 2013

passing of a person, much less Nelson Mandela.

And what part of all the music and dancing in that stadium did they not understand. This was a celebration, not a wake!

Dumbass rightwingers and anyone else who feels this was inappropriate behavior need to chill the fuck out.

In my own family we celebrate the lives of those that have passed on. We have our moments: the initial shock if it was unexpected, and at the actual funeral services. Other than those times (and in private) we don't sit around and brood and cry as a group, we feast and laugh and tell stories.

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