Looking back, I do believe that Reginald Denny was the beginning of my conversion to conservatism. Perhaps not PC to admit but there it is. Before Reginald Denny I had friends that were black. OJ sealed it.
Conservatism does not equal racial animosity. I don’t question your alienation from your black former friends but that does not necessarily follow a split from liberalism-unless, of course, your friends were liberals.
The most conservative member of the Supreme Court today happens to be a black man.
Is the implication that you no longer have friends who are black? If so, did you think, or did you have reason to believe, that your friends would turn on you like you saw on TV?