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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"
      <img src="broken_dish.jpg">
      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

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