Wait until your black friend is accused of being a "racist" by a black liberal! My own (progressive) brother once accused me of that very thing, when I dared to criticize The One.
I couldn't help but laugh.
It's pretty hysterical, actually. Liberals just cannot fathom how a black person could possibly have their own mind, and draw their own conclusions regarding politics and culture. We're supposed to march in lockstep with the state-approved religious orthodoxy of liberalism, like good little sheep.
Their attitude is "But if you think like we do, we're for social programs, and welfare, and racial preferences--how can you NOT be for those things?"
It never occurs to them that this kind of thinking is textbook racist thinking--believing that one's ethnicity determines thought.
It would never occur to Nora O'Donnell to ask a white person these questions, because of COURSE whites have different points of view from other whites.