Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Today At Big Think: Why Does Having Black Friends Matter So Much To Racial Bigots?




Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Why Does Having Black Friends Matter So Much To Racial Bigots?



When someone these days is exposed publicly for perpetrating an act of racial bigotry against African Americans, somewhere during their non-apologizing and excuse making, you are almost certain to get the phrase “I have friends who are black”.

Why does that matter? What does it mean? Is the perpetrator trying to tell us that the kind of black people they claim as friends are the type of black people who simply love being denigrated and belittled? Or that their black friends are all direct descendants of Buckwheat, ready to start skinning and grinning at the first sign of any racist bon mots? Or that the rest us black people are just being uppity, and need to quit expecting to be treated like human beings all the time?


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