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.
friends just don't appear because you want them too....
personally, I wish I knew more Jews....
besides, its not whites who are clannish....whites are embarrassingly too willing to be "open" to too many people, to our detriment...
Very stupid article. For one thing, IMNVHO, it completely ignores the class structure. Economically responsible, educated people of all the races tend to pal about together from time to time. Common interests, etc. etc. Lawyer to lawyer. Brain surgeon to brain surgeon, after races at the Yacht Clubsort of thing.
But lower middle class Negroes may be bound by language and culture and thus may tend to associate less with white people in their socio-economic bracket because they don't share a common customs.
As for lower end white people and lower end Negroes, the gulf separating social customs seems immense. Would you invite some dread-locked asshole with his droopy shorts exposing his boxers to dinner at your place? What are you going to talk about? His Baby Mammas? His prison record? The better classes of black people won't be inviting him either, so you needn't get all guilt-trippy about it. Although I must say, as time goes on lower class white people seem to adopt many lower class black customs, social mores, and even dress.
So, in his next fatuous article maybe the author will report on growing friendships between the delinquents of all races.
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!"