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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-02-18/whitney-houston-funeral-new-jersey/53140578/1

Excessive.[/quote]

I read the article -- thanks for the link -- and the essay another poster mentioned in "Steroscopic Magic."  I learned from both, and I think others might, too.  Is the funeral excessive because of its length and the number of speakers -- or is it perhaps part of a home going (as the article says) that includes particular traditions?  Is what people are mourning a celebrity or an icon who broke through images that many young women and many families needed in an era where media stereotypes reigned (as the second article suggests)?

I don't want to start a messy dialogue, here, but I find it telling and related that Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis's nominations for [i]The Help[/i] represent the first time in Oscar history that two African-American women are both on the slate for the same film (and the irony of the film's subject can't be lost on any of us).  African-American women continue to suffer under a whole, whole bunch of misperceptions and stereotypes.  The ceiling that's still got some glass for all women has even more of it, I think, for black women.  Sadly (tragically) Houston's fall into a life of addiction and different kinds of excess kept her from becoming a positive role model for black (and white) women.  If the words these days are elegiac, so be it:  a lot of potential is and was gone, and there are reasons to mourn.  [/quote]

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