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Why don't whites have black friends?
CNN ^ | August 19, 2013 | Tanner Colby

Posted on 08/20/2013 8:41:00 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi

Edited on 08/20/2013 8:43:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

White people are products of their own whitewashed, sanitized environment. Black people have been systematically excluded from white neighborhoods. Black stories rarely surface in popular culture. The history of race in high school textbooks has been boiled down to a handful of bedtime stories about Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. 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, no fully formed or well-considered thoughts about race of any kind. There's nothing really there. Even white people who want black friends don't know where to start.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apathy; blacks; psychology; race; whites; whitewashed
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
The Christian man who lives next door is a good friend. I have visiting his church multiple occasions (he sings there), we attended his wife's funeral there, I have basically a standing invitation to the monthly men's breakfast and fellowship on a Saturday morning each month.

I get condolences for being with him, or get lectured on being careful of the company I keep... ;-)

We all have a good time in fellowship and praying for each other, the church, our community, the schools and their staff, the kids, etc.

Let's say I stand out like a bright star on a dark night. No one cares. We pray with our eyes closed, so maybe we don't notice each others' skin color...

81 posted on 08/20/2013 9:31:52 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Why don’t whites have black friends?

Because I detest lazy people who feel they are entitled to my hard earned money. That unfortunately leaves only a small pool of blacks that could be my friends. If I eliminate those blacks that hate whites, the pool shrinks even further. Whats left is just a small percentage of blacks that can be my friends which means they have to like hockey, classical music, and Benny Hill. I have yet to find someone with black skin that likes what I like. But hey, Im always open to anyone being my friend, skin color not important.


82 posted on 08/20/2013 9:32:03 PM PDT by UglyinLA
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Absurd self-review from the fresh, young, pandering, guilty-white liberal author who wouldn't last .08 seconds in Camden, NJ during DAYLIGHT hours:

"Birthed from a simple question asked out of total ignorance, Some of My Best Friends Are Black offers a humorous yet unsparing take on the tortured legacy of Jim Crow—and lays bare the hard truth of what it will take to see that legacy undone."

I wonder what opinion the "enlightened" author might have on the overwhelming black on white crime statistics were he asked?

83 posted on 08/20/2013 9:32:44 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
What's CNN talking about? Here's one example of a white kid who was a driver for his two black friends, one of whom shot to death an Australian baseball player in Oklahoma:


84 posted on 08/20/2013 9:33:28 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Just when you think they couldn’t get any dumber . . .


85 posted on 08/20/2013 9:33:53 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: capydick
Who the hell wakes up in the morning and decides "I want to make friends with some black people today?"

Very stupid article. For one thing, IMNVHO, it completely ignores the class structure. Economically responsible, educated people of all the races tend to pal about together from time to time. Common interests, etc. etc. Lawyer to lawyer. Brain surgeon to brain surgeon, after races at the Yacht Clubsort of thing.

But lower middle class Negroes may be bound by language and culture and thus may tend to associate less with white people in their socio-economic bracket because they don't share a common customs.

As for lower end white people and lower end Negroes, the gulf separating social customs seems immense. Would you invite some dread-locked asshole with his droopy shorts exposing his boxers to dinner at your place? What are you going to talk about? His Baby Mammas? His prison record? The better classes of black people won't be inviting him either, so you needn't get all guilt-trippy about it. Although I must say, as time goes on lower class white people seem to adopt many lower class black customs, social mores, and even dress.

So, in his next fatuous article maybe the author will report on growing friendships between the delinquents of all races.

86 posted on 08/20/2013 9:34:00 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Don't miss the Blockbuster of the Summer! "Obama, The Movie" Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica! ")
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To: Tzimisce

Why don’t black people havd white friends?

Why do black people kill so many white and black people?

Why do blacks commit so many crimes?

Why do blacks have so many fatherless babies?

Why are black females so trashy and sleep with so many useless black males?

Why are blacks so unsuccessful in spite of being given so many benefits?

Why do black and white and Latino trash turn everything nice they are provided into a cesspool?

Why are blacks willing to live in their own trash and excrement?

Why can’t people just do right and be respectful of one another and have some dignity no matter what station in life they are in?


87 posted on 08/20/2013 9:34:59 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

What’s the frequency, Tanner?


88 posted on 08/20/2013 9:35:52 PM PDT by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

You nailed it.
They cannot perceive our pain or laughter.


89 posted on 08/20/2013 9:36:03 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Is Barry Obama gonna mandate that every white person have a black friend or else pay the Being White tax?


90 posted on 08/20/2013 9:36:59 PM PDT by UglyinLA
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

This write-up was designed to put white people on defense and look foolish. They are hoping to reinforce the “I’m not racist, I have a black friend.” phrase that has become a joke for the leftist elite.


91 posted on 08/20/2013 9:38:54 PM PDT by jughandle
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
What me and you would interpret as a joke or small talk about how much work you have to put into your house and yard, he interpreted as a racist statement that this must be his first time living in a home and not an apartment because he's a black guy.

People with a perpetual chip on their shoulder are hard to be friends with.
92 posted on 08/20/2013 9:39:03 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

The author of this article is an idiot.


93 posted on 08/20/2013 9:39:42 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: max americana

“Many black writers responded to the Reuters poll with essays on why they didn’t want white friends, and didn’t need them. White friends weren’t worth the bother.”

How come this wasn’t the headline and buried deep in the article?


Exactly. Race talks from Liberals are always one-sided lectures filled with double standards.

If black people have no white friends, it’s OK.

If white people have no black friends, it hints at racism.

If black people don’t have white friends, it’s white people’s fault because white people aren’t worth the bother.

If white people don’t have black friends, it white people’s fault for not trying hard enough.

It’s always white people’s fault.


94 posted on 08/20/2013 9:40:23 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

To answer the author’s question, perhaps it’s because I have no interest in basketball.


95 posted on 08/20/2013 9:41:21 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Black people have been systematically excluded from white neighborhoods.

Horse hockey. Over the past few years my neighborhood has become a melting pot. Surprisingly, I have not had a problem with that. My chief concern is that of rental properties that dot the area.

My list of friends cover the races and a few nationalities. I chose my friends by the continent of the character and I trust them to treat me likewise.

Those that say they are excluded should look inward. There is probably a problem that exists between their ears.

96 posted on 08/20/2013 9:41:44 PM PDT by oyez (Hell is a gun free zone.)
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To: mylife; NotYourAverageDhimmi

I do believe y’all are on to something.


97 posted on 08/20/2013 9:42:10 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: chris37
I used to have black friends too. For some strange reason blacks don't like me any more. At one time they did, back when I'd give them stuff and do things for them. I wouldn't mind having black friends today, if I could just find some who didn't vote, at every opportunity, to enslave half their fellow Americans. I'm not a racist, I'm a thoughtist. I only want to be around people who think as I do. I can't help that 97% of blacks are wrong on the major issues. Come to think of it, I don't have any liberal friends for the same reasons I don't have any black friends.
98 posted on 08/20/2013 9:43:23 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Why don’t Blacks have White friends?


Dearth of friendly blacks.......


99 posted on 08/20/2013 9:43:40 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Case back hoe for sale or trade for diesel wood chipper....Enforce the Bill of Rights. It's the Law!)
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To: ThunderSleeps
xLiberals don't have friends, they have "gay friends" and "black friends" and "Muslim friends" and all kinds of labels so they can have more check marks on their diversity card than their other liberal friends.

What liberals have are 'pets', in whatever is the most 'popular' breed.

100 posted on 08/20/2013 9:44:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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