Great clip and very opportune.

The very old custom of the Blessing Of the Graves, an annual event, is experiencing a major revival in Ireland. It's very much a social event that can last for hours.

Similarly with the Irish wake. The body now is seldom in the Church overnight, but waked at home. There were Irish wakes for the living too - the living dead going forever to America.

Soon as you realize it doesn't matter who you are, how much you make, the color of your skin, your looks

This reminded me that racism extend to the dead too. If other's grief does match the racist view then it further proves their inferiority. They believe somehow that their grief is supe...

Great clip and very opportune.

The very old custom of the Blessing Of the Graves, an annual event, is experiencing a major revival in Ireland. It's very much a social event that can last for hours.

Similarly with the Irish wake. The body now is seldom in the Church overnight, but waked at home. There were Irish wakes for the living too - the living dead going forever to America.

Soon as you realize it doesn't matter who you are, how much you make, the color of your skin, your looks

This reminded me that racism extend to the dead too. If other's grief does match the racist view then it further proves their inferiority. They believe somehow that their grief is superior to that of lesser beings. In death as in life.

Some Middle-Easterners might look to the Protestant tradition of celebrating death than the over-the-top wide spread display of uncontrolled grief for those who lived by the sword only to die by the sword. Some of the carry on by the victim state is beyond any notion of a belief in an after life that justifies its very existence as a state of the Middle East.