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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: mylife

“Yo Obie You White Privileged A**hole, lets have discussion about THAT.”

Classy. and in your case it probably should be DAT not THAT!


221 posted on 08/21/2013 8:21:26 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: eeevil conservative

Good rant. You sound like a great person.


222 posted on 08/21/2013 8:22:52 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: winkadink

I’ve never had that experience. In fact, a number of Black friends I have share the same feelings I have about race issues.


223 posted on 08/21/2013 8:26:34 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: capydick
"Who the hell wakes up in the morning and decides "I want to make friends with some black people today?"

Self-loathing white guilters who are desperate to prove to blacks they're one of the "good" ones. "And the black people will like ME! I just know they will!"

224 posted on 08/21/2013 8:29:01 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
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To: Chickensoup
I once had a black friend that grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He always told me that they called him an Oreo because he was just a regular guy. He didn't 'go there' with his race or see himself as a victim.

This is not to say he didn't want to teach me how to dance properly--haha. But it was all in fun like I used to bust on him about other stuff about being a guy (and I a girl). He had no 'authority on the black man as he didn't see himself as some victimized species." In fact if there was victimization he talked about, it was coming from other blacks.

Also when I worked in Seattle, one of my black supervisors told me when she first moved there from DC she was offended at how black folks talked to white folks and got along with each other. She said in DC it is very segregated (I took this to mean this came from both sides.) My comment to her was "that is very sad. I am glad you got over it."

225 posted on 08/21/2013 8:29:39 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: CatherineofAragon

So true. I saw a study a few years back that basically said that often black folks judge the safety of someone on behavior. Meaning it doesn’t matter what race whereas many white folks denied their fear of a person they sensed through behavvior was dangerous if they were black. So even if there was legitimate fear often it was denied because of the whole white guilt thang. Just stupid.


226 posted on 08/21/2013 8:33:46 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: eeevil conservative
Nice post. It screws up the Liberals to see someone "get their hands dirty" and speak from a position of experience. The initial question of the article is just a setup. It is the old saw, "have you stopped beating your wife yet?" You never win by addressing the question. So, in return I have a question for the author:

Why don't whites Liberals have black Christian friends?

227 posted on 08/21/2013 8:34:32 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Producing Talk Show Prep since 1998.)
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To: Jack Hammer
"Who gives a rat’s *ss."

Beautifully simple and right to the point; thank you.

228 posted on 08/21/2013 8:34:46 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
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To: gaijin

Had a black “acquaintances” I worked with in a camp environment (We lived and worked together). When they communicated with someone other than a black, they were as articulate as anyone else but when they talked to each other literally heard; “Blahgahaaflezzle mingah ningah flazbah ha GAH DAAAAM! buzzah maningah cuz muh fuh sayin sh!t like blizzah cram flangin munga naz GAH DAAAAAM! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Keeek-keek-keek!....”

So I was never certain which persona I could be friends with. Nor did find anything I could identify with as a basis for a friendship to begin with.


229 posted on 08/21/2013 8:51:26 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: digger48
"...try being the only white person at an all-black get-together with a black friend and see how he treats you when he gets around other blacks. Been there...done that 40 years ago. I don’t think things have improved"

Update: Been there done that a couple years ago, no improvement. You're exactly right, they be pretty much conditioned to hate whitey w/o cause.

230 posted on 08/21/2013 8:58:23 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: GOP Poet

No. You mistook my post to you as personal criticism of you. It wasn’t meant to be at all. In essence, I was agreeing with you because yours was the first post on the thread that DIDN’T play into the bait game. I am sorry if you thought it was personal. Truly.
And yes, I was pretty sick and had taken a whole handful of meds for pain and stuff, but thought the point was clear. I think you said something about the libs giving lip service, e.g, some.one of my best friends us/are black. while you had been walking the walk all along. Ant that is really the way it is out there most of the time.
I posted something similar a few days ago.


231 posted on 08/21/2013 9:10:03 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: Razz Barry

Very well stated, razz, I completely agree.


232 posted on 08/21/2013 9:14:21 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

This is such BS.

I grew up with many blacks in my town and we all got along, friends, teammates, schoolmates, etc.

I don’t think any of us gave a second thought to skin color.

Now the blacks from stateside, most of those folks had HUGE chips on their shoulders and they self-segregated and isolated themselves from us locals.

Many of the blacks I served with in the military were typically solid folks, good natured and salt of the earth. Friends with many of them still.


233 posted on 08/21/2013 9:21:31 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: PeteePie

I’ve been the only white guy at numerous black functions and have always been well received. At nearly all these functions the black attendees were overwhelmingly Caribbean. From my experience, both Caribbean born and African born black people are generally less adversarial to white people than American born black people. And, of course, the stigma of being more adversarial does not apply to all American born black people.


234 posted on 08/21/2013 9:42:45 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: arasina
[A racial indictment] Except for himself and his white friends, of course.

Yup. Why don't white academia and limousine liberals live in Camden, Detroit or Baltimore if they REALLY want to prove their point? Ga'head. Hangin' out with Oprah and TV blacks doesn't count.

Let 'em live at an apartment complex full of LaQueesha and De Marjamerius and their polite "yoots."

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

GREAT points. And how about the word, "vibrant"? More code...For "steaming mess of bohemian human flotsam." NO thanks.

The language is so subverted. Btw -- can Whitey even say, "Colored People"? Can Indians or Asians for that matter? Or is THAT "racist"?? What about the "The United Negro College Fund"? Hypocrites. Liars. Race-baiting RACE-ISTS.

As long as Liberals are allowed to dictate and define the language and narrative, Whitey will remain "racists" and pro-Bible folks will remain "homophobic". Oh...and "down" will mean "up".

235 posted on 08/21/2013 9:56:50 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: mylife
Libs love to divide and conquer in the name of diversity and social injustice, but the big dogs still live on the hill.

Exactly. Hear ya.

They'll share a latte with Oprah but won't share an Arizona Ice Tea wit' Jamarius. I call "bull***!"

Lol...

236 posted on 08/21/2013 9:59:16 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
From my experience, both Caribbean born and African born black people are generally less adversarial to white people than American born black people.

BINGO! Same here.

That's because *they* haven't been indoctrinated from cradle to grave by the State and Culture to hate Whitey and obsess with carrying a grudge.

237 posted on 08/21/2013 10:03:52 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: PeteePie
When they communicated with someone other than a black, they were as articulate as anyone else but when they talked to each other literally heard; “Blahgahaaflezzle mingah ningah flazbah ha GAH DAAAAM! buzzah maningah cuz muh fuh sayin sh!t like blizzah cram flangin munga naz GAH DAAAAAM! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Keeek-keek-keek!....”

LOL. Classic.

238 posted on 08/21/2013 10:04:59 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

The honest truth is that for the most part birds of a feather flock together and thats just the way it is. Psychoanalyzing it will not change it.


239 posted on 08/21/2013 10:22:30 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

in many urban cases and federal cases, govt employment is just welfare.


240 posted on 08/21/2013 10:34:01 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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