White female, eager learner, poor listener
Terry Tringali Killoran, Sterling Heights, MI I had black friends growing up. I thought I did. We played together at school and after school at...
Pain is hard, friends are complicated
Jaclyn Flint, Elmira, NY I’ve been through a lot of pain, friends are complicated. You hang out with people for so many years, don’t know...
I have no black best friends.
Kevin Maness PA I have colleagues, students, friends, and acquaintances who are black and who I love, like, and/or dislike, but I’m embarrassed to say...
Just one never happened friendship story
Julie B., Itasca, IL. This story started on social network, I followed one blogger I have mutual friend with. She is black woman in her...
“White” is not a skin tone
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer It has always confused me when people call others “white”, or “black”, because no one’s...
Begin: Befriend someone different than you.
Karen Fritts, USA. We talk and talk about race, but most of us stay in their own corners during the discussion. We cannot begin to...
Black friends’s father forbid our friendship.
Patricia Armstrong St. Louis, MO I was no more than 7 years old and made friends with a black girl in the neighborhood. We really...
Teased as “Oreo” — our friendship abandoned.
Kay Wilkie Albany, NY I lost my closest friend following intensifying racial tension in Albany city schools during the early 1970s. It was just too...
She really was my best friend.
Suzanne Axtell Santa Rosa, CA Despite years of developing a very close relationship, my friendship with the only black woman in my circle of friends...
