I have a few black friends and I like them a lot, because they’re nice people and work hard and we just discuss non-racial topics. But I’ve also tried being friends with some blacks, even going as far as giving gifts and other items, and my efforts were met with outright hostility and personal insults.
How can you be friends with that?
A few other people I’ve met of various races (Filipino, Hispanic, Indian) usually after a while seem to need to come out and remind me I’m white, or they complain to ME that they are being discriminated against by white people, which is a damn excuse for general incompetence. I mean ...who cares? The minute they start that crap, it’s over.
My best friends are my white friends who I’ve known all my life and gone to school with. I’m sure most blacks would probably say the same thing.
I am a “dark” hispanic, I look the part, that’s for sure. However, I was brought up in mostly “white middle class” neighborhoods. That’s where I have lived most of my life. So the large majority of my friends have been white. My black neighbors are from outside of the country, so they aren’t “urban” at all. I have a few hispanic friends,but even they are like me, culturally “white”.
“I’ve met of various races (Filipino, Hispanic, Indian) usually after a while seem to need to come out and remind me I’m white, or they complain to ME that they are being discriminated against by white people, which is a damn excuse for general incompetence.”
Something that used to put me over-the-top pissed off were Filipino ladies in the city office where I worked. Our department secretary would sometimes whine that she couldn’t always hear (overhear?) our conversations, and complained to management that we were probably talking about her. (We didn’t care enough about her to talk about it, but that’s another story.) Then, a minute later, she was on the phone yakkity-yakking in Tagalog with her friend down the hall, loudly, right in front of us. We assumed she WAS talking about us.