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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: Secret Agent Man

I understand that full well. Do we have to help them?


161 posted on 08/20/2013 11:23:32 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: goodnesswins

As far as Oregon goes, I grew up in Coos County—it doesn’t get much whiter than that. At my high school in the mid-80’s we had 2 black kids (out of over a 1000). I never heard of them having any problems fitting in—but their numbers were so small that there was no question of a sub-culture.


162 posted on 08/20/2013 11:24:00 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: gaijin

You’d be surprised how many young white guys do too. My workplace used to have low tolerance for harsh swear words but years later with the turnover bringing them in younger the supervisors themselves run around the office using the F-word pretty frequently. No regard for women or for decorum in a workplace anymore.


163 posted on 08/20/2013 11:25:30 PM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: Tzimisce

Why are white people writing articles about how rotten white people are?


Simple to entice blacks to like them.. or tolerate them..
The pendalum has swung.. the KKK has become the BBB..
What does BBB stand for?....

Who cares?... you know exactly what I mean..
Not all blacks are racist, just most all of them.. (to some degree)..

Some Whites and most blacks are beating that democrat donkey to within an inch of it’s life..
That donkey don’t know whether to spit, shit or croon HEIL.. to the party..

But not all blacks operate on the level of a chimpanzee..
Some are dumber a few are a somewhat smarter..
And I don’t have much use for most whites either..


164 posted on 08/20/2013 11:25:43 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: chris37

this OP writer is pissin in the waters of life.


165 posted on 08/20/2013 11:25:50 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

It’s easy to generalize, and some generalizations do in fact exist, but black Americans come literally in all shapes, sizes, and temperments. In my own experience older employed or retired blacks can be delightful people, as well as some youth. However we all know our disfunctional inner cities and impoverished areas seem to be breeding grounds for what is little more than mixed-race feral humans, stubborn, ignorant, and prone to a life of criminal activity and violence. The reasons for this are subject to debate, but a large amount of blame goes to a form of planned institutionalized ignorance and racism taught through schools and “social activists”, and toxic messages of entitlement and victimhood foisted by elements of global communism and other nefarious groups that need an army useful idiots.


166 posted on 08/20/2013 11:26:54 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Divide and conquer.


167 posted on 08/20/2013 11:30:01 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: MestaMachine

it’s a moot point. it won’t change anything, therefore it doesn’t really help anything. no matter what is written they will find something.

and if you think the solution is then to say nothing, well, sorry,we have a right to talk about it. i don’t really care what they say. if you care what they think nobody is forcing you to join in. it’s not going to be a one-sided conversation. you do realize they assume our silence is evidenceof our guilt, yes?

so when there’s no way to win, there’s no reason not to be honest.

and while i doubt i changed your mind, i speak what’s on mine and don’t care if i changed yours or not. even if i’d like to have convinced you.


168 posted on 08/20/2013 11:32:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mountn man

“Whites make up 75% of the population.
Blacks make up 13% of the population.”

I’ve heard this often but I wonder if the numbers are really true. Turn on my local news (which I don’t often do because it’s usually all about the city) and black people are mostly what you see. All 3 top managers at my work are black people . If I take a drive around the streets of my old town or the new I will see an even number of hispanics, blacks and whites with some areas being predominantly minorities. I have been at parks, in stores, restaurants and feel like I’m the minority.


169 posted on 08/20/2013 11:36:51 PM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I have black friends. And I wouldn’t be bothered if they moved next door. There are some blacks I want no where near me. There are blacks. Then there are __________(fill in the blank.) They totally different and neither wants to live near the other. There are also white families I don’t want living near me. The first crack house or the first driveway mechanic with cars parked on the grass, if the HOA can’t do anything about it, I’m gone.


170 posted on 08/20/2013 11:48:05 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: mylife
Blacks are just so offended all the time, and I know it is not all of them, the ones I know that think like me get grief from their own community, they get called Uncle Toms, they get called Geeks but words don’t hurt them.

I dated a black woman for a while, in fact we were going to get married, however, every time we went some where she found a reason to be mad at some white person.Always she found someone who was "dissing" her. Her family was just as bad.I finally couldn't take it any more and broke it off. Her son, from a marriage that went bad, ended up killing a white guy a few years after I broke up with her and is now spending the rest of his life in Prison, without parole.

The only other group of people in America who are constantly pissed are the Muslims.

171 posted on 08/20/2013 11:54:02 PM PDT by calex59
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To: MestaMachine

Does anyone who posted here stop and think or realize how many black Freepers there are on this board? OR Jews like me?


If they are black or even mulatto they know more than you do whats said here is (MOSTLY) correct..
At least if of some of the data is not correct they know the anguish it comes from..
Because they have seen it happen, or did it themselves.. to whites.. OR BOTH!..

If a freeper is black then is no doubt pretty smart or they would not even be here(FR)..
Don’t patronize them... they HATE THAT... and its tacky..
Let them speak for themselves..


172 posted on 08/20/2013 11:57:28 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: All

Relax, we don’t have any Asian friends either, so it’s not just you. Bet you don’t either.


173 posted on 08/21/2013 12:06:07 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: All

Might I add, if the government is going to choose our friends, could I just put in a word for more, umm, ladies?

Thanks. Might as well get something out of this brave new world thingie.


174 posted on 08/21/2013 12:10:30 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: hosepipe

“If a freeper is black then is no doubt pretty smart or they would not even be here(FR)..
Don’t patronize them... they HATE THAT... and its tacky..
Let them speak for themselves..”

Yeah. Maybe they are even clean amd articulate too.


175 posted on 08/21/2013 12:18:00 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I have multiple close friends with black, white, Asian, and Hispanic ancestry. What I don’t have are any black, white, Asian, and Hispanic friends who think their race is important on a day-to-day basis - I avoid racists.


176 posted on 08/21/2013 1:20:48 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: MestaMachine

Yeah. Maybe they are even clean and articulate too.


Lame snark... Grade D+

if you would’a said “and no tatoos” would have been a C-..


177 posted on 08/21/2013 1:23:11 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hinckley buzzard

>> Why don’t Blacks have White friends?

The only comment the pathetic article deserves.


178 posted on 08/21/2013 1:29:05 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
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.

This confused framework presupposes the issue.

Christian culture emphasizes no discrimination in race regarding the soul and spirit in a relationship with God. Following the Christian thought process, race isn't an issue.

Many pagan beliefs instead become preoccupied with environment and evolution shaping our thinking and culture more than faith through Christ.

The quote above manifests a trapped way of thinking. First it presumes thinking is a racially dependent function. It doesn't discern between culture or thinking process but begins by categorizing parties by race.

A major problem in US culture is an African-American culture which has identified its thinking with its race and its race with its behavior, then basing all relationships outside themselves as racial relationships.

Such a perspective will always promote racism vice relationships outside of race. Asking why whites don't equally value this way of thinking presumes such a racial culture is equal to freedom loving republics, when it instead attempts to replace freedom with racial disharmony.

179 posted on 08/21/2013 1:54:09 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: USS Johnston
The author (who is selling a book) is....a guilt-ridden white liberal kiss-up who indicts the entire pasty-azzed population of the U.S. as racists and unilateral snobbery.

Except for himself and his white friends, of course.

Interesting how the word "diversity" has come to mean "black percentage". Then again, the NAACP never represented any yellow or red CP.

180 posted on 08/21/2013 2:01:32 AM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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