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"If you don't have a black friend, you're the problem" - W. Sykes
- I don't have any black friends.
I try to limit the number of white friends I have too..Nairn - saying that you have a black friend, is also problematicGnash
- it's a schrodinger's racist situationGnash
- Friendship is a mutual thing, this quote is taking agency from black people. You can't buy friends like you used to buy slaves.
I'm #triggered.deadsperm - she's so annoyingmonospaced
- The basques we are a minority in minorities, I've got lots of basque friends, but any black friends... am I cured of racism now? Or need a black friend asap?OBBTKN
- There aren't that many black people in Vancouver tho... :[pango
- Necromotion doesn't live that far from me. Perhaps I might hunt him down and force my friendship on him.
Whether he wants it or not.Nairn - I think she's annoying too, but does have a point. You'd never brag or say I have black friends, bc it isn't foreign to you. Black ppl are everwhere :)notype
- Accidentally* watched a few parts of her recent standup. The race bits were funny- she did it well.notype
- watched a bit of it the other night with my wife... she was laughing her head off :) i thought it was pretty ok too.exador1
- ^ good to know it wasn’t just me. Honestly could not make it through the whole thing thoughnotype
- I guess she doesn't realize that there aren't black people everywhere or is she promoting the whole idea of the tokenism?zarkonite
- Some people won’t get the point of this very poignant quote.notype
- What is the point?deadsperm
- If this part of a joke it might be funny within the context of the joke but I don't see how this quote is valid although I get the intentions behind it.deadsperm
- I'm sure there are some racist people going out their way to exchange with black people, and even worse, becoming friends with them.deadsperm
- But white people can't force black people to be their friends, it doesn't only depend on white people.deadsperm
- You could even say that it doesn't depend on black either, that it's just the violence inherent in the system.deadsperm
- I don't think that there are black people lining wanting to become friends with white people which in turn are turning them down.deadsperm
- sounds like you need to host a dinner. but be warned, it "will be painful, uncomfortable, maddening, and upsetting"
https://race2dinner.…Gnash - "Click here to smash your white fragility"
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Gold!deadsperm - whoah Gnash! what is that... I have to look at that in the morning again w/ fresh eyes. Looks a bit worrisome.notype
- I don't have any black friends.