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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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1 posted on 08/20/2013 8:41:00 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Why isn’t hatred of white people considered racist?

Why aren’t studies on the evils of white people considered racist?

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


2 posted on 08/20/2013 8:42:51 PM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Gee, I can think of several reasons why many whites have few black friends and none of them have anything to do with racism from whites or segregation on the part of whites.


3 posted on 08/20/2013 8:43:01 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I used to have black friends.

I dated a black girl for 7 years when I was much younger.

I don’t have any black friends now, and it is going to stay that way.

Things have changed.


4 posted on 08/20/2013 8:43:01 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

To the headline: I do and I have black family members.
Will read the story to see what they are talking about.


5 posted on 08/20/2013 8:45:11 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

yawn... why don’t blacks have white friends? The current trend of faux nostalgia of things that happened in the past do not reflect current reality.


6 posted on 08/20/2013 8:45:32 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Cuz in many cases they say the “F word” three times in each sentence?


7 posted on 08/20/2013 8:45:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I grew up in the proverbial melting pot.

Simply everyone has been in my home at some point.

There is only one group that refuses to accept an invite or extend one.

That has been my honest to God experience.


8 posted on 08/20/2013 8:45:53 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

They do, when it serves a purpose, and even then it is a oneway street.


9 posted on 08/20/2013 8:47:02 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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We only joke around at work.


10 posted on 08/20/2013 8:48:04 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I do.


11 posted on 08/20/2013 8:48:23 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Why don't Blacks have White friends?
12 posted on 08/20/2013 8:48:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

FUTC


13 posted on 08/20/2013 8:49:01 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

There is no way to answer this without being labeled racist.

Then again, today’s definition of racism is anyone that disagrees with the left. So I will give one possible answer.

At around 13 percent of the population, and with most blacks living in big cities, could it be there are not enough blacks for each of us to have a “black” best friend.


14 posted on 08/20/2013 8:49:25 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Thanks to Obama, whites and blacks now look at each other through a different prism.


15 posted on 08/20/2013 8:49:52 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Obama’s mama had black friends.


16 posted on 08/20/2013 8:49:57 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Even white people who want black friends don't know where to start.

Who the hell wakes up in the morning and decides "I want to make friends with some black people today?"

Would it be racist to think that black people who want white friends don't know where to start either?

I have a few friends who happen to be black. We are friends because we enjoy each others company and have a lot in common - the same reason I am friends with some white people also.

17 posted on 08/20/2013 8:50:02 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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” - - - By Tanner Colby, Special to CNN - - - “

Yup, the ‘Clinton News Network’ is doing what it can to help Hilly shed the blood of her setting up the Benghazi Massacre.


18 posted on 08/20/2013 8:50:23 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
"Even white people who want black friends don't know where to start."

I've had some good friendships with black people simply because they were where I was at the same point in life. I don't remember every waking up saying, "Gee, I want a black friend."

I can't imagine anyone thinking like that ...except maybe a liberal. You know, the same kind of folks who wake up and say, "I think we should adopt a black baby."

19 posted on 08/20/2013 8:50:41 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

At one time in my life I had several Blackafricamericanperzonsofcolor “friends”. Then one day it dawned on me that those people were the only people I knew where I had to be very careful of ever word, every phrase or even inflictions. So I quit calling or going around them. Now days, if they show up at a gathering or get together, I just leave.
I do have several Latino and Native American friends since they are normal folks.


20 posted on 08/20/2013 8:50:48 PM PDT by Tupelo (There are no Republicans or Democrats in Washington. Just Millionaires protecting their turf.)
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