Posted on 08/26/2014 2:50:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
'Some of my best friends are black!' You're probably lying.
Do you have friends of another race? Statistically speaking, probably not.
With so much racial unrest going on in America these days, it can be hard for people to understand the "other" side. Maybe it's because white Americans never walked a mile in a black friend's shoes -- or maybe because they have no black friends to begin with.
Public Religion Research Institute found that whites' social networks are 91 percent white. Even more alarming, 75 percent of whites have a totally white social network.
For a nation that prides itself as a melting pot (or perhaps salad bowl), it's shocking that so many people could have so little racial diversity in their friend group.
Imagine a white person with 300 friends, about the size of a healthy Facebook friends list. Of those, the institute's research shows about 273 friends will be white, three will be black, three Latino, three Asian, three multiracial and three of an "other" race (and nine with an unknown race).
It's not much better for black people. For a black person, that same Facebook friends list would be made up of about 249 black people, 24 whites, six Latinos, nine mixed race, no Asians, three "other" race and 12 unknown.
Public Religion Research Institute's Robert P. Jones decries our tendency to "self-segregate" in a piece for The Atlantic.
"Widespread social separation is the root of divergent reactions along racial lines to events such as the Watts riots, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and, more recently, the shootings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown," Jones writes. "... If perplexed whites want help understanding the present unrest in Ferguson, nearly all will need to travel well beyond their current social circles."
Whites alone aren't guilty of a monochrome social network. While three-quarters of whites have an all-white network, 64 percent of blacks and 46 percent of Hispanics have social networks made entirely of their own race.
The unrest in Ferguson has poured salt in long-festering wounds in our country. It's often been difficult for the various groups involved to see eye-to-eye.
But we'll never make any lasting changes unless different racial, social and religious groups make a serious, sustained effort to leave their insular communities and forge real relationships. We can't call America the great melting pot if we're not even willing to get close to each other.
Of course.
It was one of those "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers" replies.
sure you can, they’re called enemies. people that don’t know you exist are neutral. friends = +1, like you, never heard of you = 0/neutral, enemy = -1/hates you
and right now given urban blacks’ worldview and morals, i’d rather the didn’t reach out to me.
We’re all more comfortable with our own kind. This is unusual?
let’s start putting the onus on the minority to adhere to the majority viewpoint again. only in white countries is this sh1t allowed to happen.
i just learned one of the bullies in middle school that made my life suck, who happened to be hispanic, died late last month.
was not too upset. had nothing to do with his race.
friends have things in common and relate to each other that way.
that’s why almost all blacks hang with blacks, and whites with other whites.
but it’s also why intelligent well-socialized blacks hang with whites and not blacks- they leave. that’s why whites leave black areas.
They’ll bus you there. Just like they used to do with school kids.
Well she's not really your friend then, according to the article...
/johnny
These losers keep try to make everyone’s skin color gray...Different races have different colors...In my experience the different races have different cultures...The degrees varying...
I have a ‘few’ very good black friends...One good Mexican friend and no Oriental friends since I don’t know any personally...I tend to avoid Arabs (race or not) since the odds are excellent that they are muzlims and I don’t do that...
The other race friends that I have are white in everything except color...Birds of a feather flock together...And yet there are many white people I know who I chose not to be friends with...
Point is, we are different...And not just in color...We think differently...Not one any better than the other...I tend to judge people on what they do, not what they are...I chose my friends not by color but by what we have in common...
A black girl named Veto...I thought that was pretty much a white name...
Yep.
I became very good friends with a black fella from Jamaica...We could talk about anything...He invited to his home in Jamaica and even set up a date for me with his unbelievably beautiful sister...I wasn't able to make it and have regretted it ever since...
My mom, who worked with a lot of blacks, said the worst problem of poor blacks was that affluent blacks rejected them.
Thanks for the laugh.
Yours truly,
Veto White
If you watch commercials...you’d see an America divorced from reality.....its crazy really...even in Manhattan no one lives so diverse
To be honest.....when I deal with the few blacks who act like me and share my culture....its pleasant
You forget they are different....cause those few aren’t really....or not much
But that’s only a few.
Its just the reality
I’m old...I don’t wish to share my spare time with folks that are a challenge to tolerate
I have family for that
Further....all my life I’ve heard black men denigrate and sex fantacize how all white women desire them and will slut up for them
And black women like at DMV always stink eye me for nothing
Why will I voluntarily put up with that....and thug culture and rap...and whiney victim hood?
Now cowboy blacks or David Webb.....Harris Faulkner......and others
Cool ...I welcome them
I was a pioneer in this in racist era 45 years ago
It did not work out like folks wanted...its worse now overall
Most people prefer their own kind.....world over
She’s kinda mongrely looking
Other are better looking mixed race women
I saw a mulatto Chinese woman at The Wheel on lower Broad last summer
Dancing....petite...leggy...apple butt...soft ringlet fro...almond eyes...flawless pale...very pale cafe skin...a solid 9.999
God she was so pretty...my wife and I still refer to her on conversations
As you know I lived in Brazil and married one once
Most of them outside the south are mixed...white...black...Guarani....some Japs even.... Arabs too
Contrary to the famous examples of beauty which are the European ones mostly.....Brazilians are kind of feral looking
I’m not one who thinks diversity makes for prettier humans...by default
Certainly doesn’t work for dogs either
But that won’t stop the PC from wishing it true
Most posters here are PC about this too
Love themselves some minorities...from their homogeneous environ
My apologies...I was thinking Rosie Perez
Dawson is nice looking....my mistake
Perez has nice sweater kitties though.....
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