Why don't whites have black friends?

CNN ^ | August 19, 2013 | Tanner Colby

[driftless2]

For many white Americans, like myself, it's simply a matter of there being no black people around to make friends with. I grew up in a Midwestern town of 50,000 people. There was exactly one black family that lived there, and they lived on the extreme far end of town almost five miles away. And since I virtually never went to that part of the town, I was unaware they existed until many years later.

Today that town, La Crosse, Wisconsin, has about 500 black residents which is still only one percent of the population. Many Midwestern towns are like La Crosse. Why it was that way, I don't know. Incidentally, La Crosse is the hometown of the first black American, George Poage, to medal in the Olympics when he won some medals in the sprints in the 1904 Olympics.

[gibsosa]

Great post.

[Chickensoup]

I am pretty sure that kid is mixed race

[Chickensoup]

Tell me about it. I have adopted from birth black children who when they were young were invited to every leftist’s child birthday party in the state. sigh.

[gibsosa]

Touche’.

[Arrowhead1952]

My black friends don’t know of or like my black role models.

Same here. I had a black employee who hates 0 bummer. All our facilities had pictures of 0, the governor and others in the chain of command. Shortly after the pictures were put up in 2009, we noticed 0's picture was getting cracked. He was a semi pro boxer and was banging his fist into his face every time he passed by.

[DaveA37]

I have a great friend who happens to be Negro, not to mention I also have Native American and Asian friends as well. I don’t judge people by their race, I judge them by their character.

There are many Caucasians I would prefer NOT to be friends with.

[DaveA37]

I have a great friend who happens to be Negro, not to mention I also have Native American and Asian friends as well. I don't judge people by their race, I judge them by their character.

There are many Caucasians I would prefer NOT to be friends with.

[beef]

“Try to tap into the average white person's feelings on race and you won't necessarily find feelings of hate and antipathy. You just won't find much of anything”

Tapping into a white persons “feelings on race” smacks of a setup. No matter what is said, the “average white person” knows they will turn it into a club and beat them with it. The race baiters have made an art form out of that. Is it any wonder they don't find much of anything?

[gogeo]

We could start a club.

[VR-21]

"...but there are some very good black people out there..."

I'm certain that there are, and there are many in our society I greatly admire as well (Tom Sowell, Allen West etc.). My heart goes out to them because I think they suffer the most in the miserable situation we have presently. Our society has been systematically broken into tribes, and turned against each other by some very evil people, and the hatred now seems to be growing on it's own inertia. I don't know if it's fixable.

[gogeo]

Thank you.

[Sloth]

You can see them thinking 'wow she's a conservative and a republican and has more black friends then us. as we've actually never really had black friends until out daughter brought this girl home. I'm so confused."

Liberals are so steeped in the collectivist mindset that they are incapable of simply seeing blacks as regular people like themselves, but they also know they're not supposed to think of them as inferior, so they end up regarding them as a sort of exotic anthropological curiosity. They remark on their daughter's friend's race because that is the only thing they are *allowed* to think about her. If they happen to learn something else about her (e.g., she's taking cello lessons), they probably just mentally incorporate that into their anthropological data ("black people play the cello").

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Our society has been systematically broken into tribes, and turned against each other

All multiracial and multicultural societies break into tribes which are, to varying degrees, antithetical to each other.

In the Middle East the Sunni and Shia are the same people genetically, but break into tribes based on religion.

Pakistanis and Indians are largely the same people but a religious divide caused two nations to be formed. Ditto for the even more recent Sudan and South Sudan.

Zimbabwe and South African politics and policies deeply involve a black vs. white dynamic.

The riots in Europe over the past several decades (minus the austerity riots) have almost always been ethnic minorities railing against the ethic majority.

American riots of the past half century have almost always been black riots railing against a perceived racist white power structure.

Even in nations where there is no open conflict, racial or religious groups often vote in blocs against each other.

Diversity is not strength. Diversity always leads to a tension that must be massaged so that it doesn't lead to open conflict.

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I say it’s faux nostalgia because the attempt is being made to tie it into today. For example, we no longer live in the age of Jackie Robinson inequality. It’s great to remember the past, both good and bad. But we also have to remember we have moved on. Where is the inequality of opportunity exist today. My theory is that the social conscious is being held back by movie after movie, book after book, interview after interview, and the limelighting of certain crimes while others, far more wicked in scope and intent, are ignored. In this way I use the word faux. It may not be the best word.

[VR-21]

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but what I allude to involves more than race. In our country (and others perhaps), men and women, rich and poor, urban and rural, gay and straight so-on and so forth have been pitted against each other by political interests. Look at the hatred developing between American whites of different ideologies or political views. Politicians don’t call these groups ‘tribes’ however. They call them voting blocs, but the principle is the same. You say that mutual antipathies of race and ethnicity are a natural occurrence and you’re probably right, but I believe that most of the polarization in our society presently, including race, is brought about and when not...intensified by a self-serving political class that benefits from keeping us at each others throats.

[eeevil conservative]

TOTAL LOAD OF CRAPT!

Back in 2005, I worked for a man who ran a non-profit for the homeless in downtown Atlanta. For Thanksgiving he hosted a THANKSGIVING dinner for 2,000 homeless - it was not a soup line- we held it at one of the finest conventions centers- linen napkins, with a live show of singing, speakers (Herman Cain), dancing, etc...We had a local black choir in the greeting area singing for them as they entered, everyone got a FREE winter coat, we chartered buses to help folks get there. They could eat ALL they wanted. WE, the people from churches and other groups volunteered to come in, and we actually served them their dinner, refilled their drinks, washed the dishes, etc...US doing this work did not give us any discount on the cost....

Amazingly, when we approached the local pastors of churches in the area, to help spread the word to people - homeless people and coordinate the best places to send the buses, etc- the pastors bucked back. They LOVED the whole thing- except one eensy weensy part- they did not want WHITE folks doing the serving. The white folks could pay for it all, organize it all, etc...but they wanted no part of white faces serving or being the faces of the event...

Thankfully there were 2 pastors that scolded the others on this. WE did not cave. WE SERVED them— it was one of the best Holidays of my life.

The so called BLACK leaders don’t want the black community and white community mixing...they lose power when they cannot demonize us white folks as those who hate, and even those who don’t hate- well, we just want to serve from a balcony...let them eat cake...

I volunteer now at a local homeless shelter in a suburb of Atlanta- I am often mistaken for a client in need by the well dressed and manicured other volunteers, because I ALWAYS go there with my hair tied back, T-shirt(sweatshirt when it is cold) and jeans, with ZERO MAKE-UP! I do it for a reason. I want them to see me serving side by side, not from above....and it is WELL RECEIVED!

I get a lot of hugs- their faces light up when they see me, they ask me to sit with them, etc....I BOND with them- on a very real and sincere level.. I LOVE IT! They pray with me, give me notes with prayer requests, just sit and share and cry and vent....

It is the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life- THEY change my life every time I am there...

It is the black people who need to stop the heirloom of hate passed down from generation to generation, and they need to rebuke their leaders who would feed such evil...

/rant off

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

I agree with you. Politicians, “leaders”, and the media (particularly Democrat politicians, black leaders, and the Liberal media) are increasingly pitting the races against each other (namely all non-white races vs. whites) in an attempt to forward their agendas.

[Altura Ct.]

Diversity is not strength.

Diversity is a strength is one of the biggest lies ever told and what is ultimately leading to the destruction of the US.

[Scotswife]

Thank you for that post - and for reminding me this is the true path to establishing genuine bonds between groups who are being encouraged to distrust the “other”