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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: NotYourAverageDhimmi

What a crock! I have had many Black friends (and Hispanic, Asian, Indian, Iraqi, Native American, etc, etc). I know many people of WASP heritage who have friends of color. This drivel is exactly the type of tripe that breeds mistrust of White people by people of color, and is the worse type of racisism there is IMO.


21 posted on 08/20/2013 8:50:58 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Why don't whites have black friends?

They do.

Next question.

22 posted on 08/20/2013 8:52:21 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Because “I ain’t no ways tired”?

Hillary is lily white and I would never be her friend.


23 posted on 08/20/2013 8:53:24 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Liberal Democrats are Communists. RINO Republicans are Communist Sympathizers.)
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To: Tupelo

Thank you.


24 posted on 08/20/2013 8:53:43 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Why doesn't CNN have many viewers? (Rhetorical-no answer necessary).
25 posted on 08/20/2013 8:53:45 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

False assumption, and a racist one, too. I have several black friends and have had many others.

A better question: Why don’t blacks like having whites as friends? I have NEVER had a white person say they wouldn’t invite to their home a black person but I have had most blacks say they would never invite a white person to their home.


26 posted on 08/20/2013 8:54:04 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Seems that CNN is now publishing 3rd graders.


27 posted on 08/20/2013 8:54:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I don’t have black friends, and I don’t have to apologize for it.


28 posted on 08/20/2013 8:54:26 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

BS


29 posted on 08/20/2013 8:55:03 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Whites make up 75% of the population.
Blacks make up 13% of the population.

Simple math would suggest that blacks should have a lot more white friends than whites having black friends.

30 posted on 08/20/2013 8:55:05 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Ahhh, could it be that, with exceptions conspicuous by their rarity, too many blacks embrace a culture that produces and tolerates far more VIOLENCE than most white folks are comfortable with.

Those exceptions are men like Dr. Alan Keyes, Col. Allen West, Dr. Thomas Sowell, Dr. Walter Williams, FBN/FNNs Charles Paine, Dr. Ben Carson and scores of thousands of others whose names we don’t know who overcame suffering being called “too white” or trying to “act white” by their less motivated childhood associates and neighbors, escaped their difficult early circumstances and went on to become successful in life.

You see, it’s not racial damnit. IT’S CULTURAL!!!


31 posted on 08/20/2013 8:55:13 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”- Voltaire)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Gentry White liberals are above anyone (especially conservative working people of white or black color).

Plus you find as many blacks outside of the south and Northern inner cities.


32 posted on 08/20/2013 8:55:19 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Actually, there is at least about 60-70% of the white race I don’t want anything to do with.

Seems like it has a lot more to do with values, morals, and ethics rather than skin color.

With the right values, morals, and ethics I wouldn’t give a dam if the person was Zebra-striped!


33 posted on 08/20/2013 8:55:57 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Just when you think they couldn’t get any dumber . . .


35 posted on 08/20/2013 8:58:23 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (LEAVE THE ZIMMERMANS ALONE . . . NOT guilty . . .you LOST Now SHUT UP)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Recently, a Reuters poll came out showing that 40% of white Americans have zero nonwhite friends, and only 20% of white Americans have five or more nonwhite friends. People seemed shocked that the numbers were so bad.

O.K. Let's turn it around.

"Why don't blacks have white friends"?

I'd wager the "numbers" would be even "worse" -- despite the more favorable proportions.

36 posted on 08/20/2013 8:58:34 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Well said!


37 posted on 08/20/2013 8:59:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I’ve been sucker punched, roughed up, accosted, shaken down, and verbally abused six times in my life...all by black males in small, medium and large cities. Never once by my many friends and acquaintances from 20 different nations and cultures. I’m not one to make sweeping generalizations, but this is simply enough empirical evidence for me.


38 posted on 08/20/2013 8:59:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

When a white person brings a black friend to a party of all whites, they will trip over themselves to make that person feel welco0me an will probably vote them Homecoming King/Queen.

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 ahve improved


39 posted on 08/20/2013 9:00:09 PM PDT by digger48
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
"Interracial friendships, social bonds across the color line, are a key factor in putting the sins of America's past behind us. But it's not something that's accomplished by white people knowing lots of black people. It helps if white people know how to be better white people."

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That last paragraph may be the most white guilt laden drivel that I've ever read. The author should be checked for a severe case of Liberalitis.

40 posted on 08/20/2013 9:00:57 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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