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 I challenged myself with this question... |
Eddie Robbins |
| If you are white and all of your family is white, my question is....who is your best black friend? |
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| Re: I challenged myself with this question... |
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| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | If you are white and all of your family is white, my question is....who is your best black friend? |
Good question Eddie, I admit that I've had some good black friends over the years, but as I've gotten older, I have fewer and fewer friends of color, but I don't have any black friends that I converse with on a daily basis anymore. And that is my loss as most black friends I've had have been a pure joy to be around.
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[quote="UncleJD"] | Eddie Robbins wrote: | | as I've gotten older, I have fewer and fewer friends of any color. |
Well, JD, son, least you aint a racist. |
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Eddie Robbins |
| Who is judging anything? It's just a question to see who has real black friends. Some people live in areas where there are no black people. Why judge my motive? There is a reason I am asking. I said that I have challenged myself to answer. Can we just have a conversation without accusation? |
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 I thought it was a discussion board. my bad!
The answer and only the answer: Sticky!
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I have several adopted black teenagers at the High School I work at. I consider them to be "my kids". They bring me joy, laughter and intense heart ache on a daily basis. But it is worth it all when one of them sees me in public and comes running up in front of their whole family to give me a hug. Then I get introduced to everybody with the words, "This is the sub teacher I told you about".
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Eddie Robbins |
| The point of my question has to do with really understanding what they are going through. When I worked at Primerica many years ago, I had a friend named Mel who was also a minister. We were pretty tight. I lost contact with him and others when I went through a layoff there. So, now, as I ponder this question, I don't have a real friend who is black. I work with several blacks and have a great relationship with them, but they are not good friends. In order for me to learn more about their struggles, I need to have a close friendship where we can have personal conversations about race. Until then, I am not qualified to respond to their actions of peaceful protest. This needs to change on my part. |
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| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | The point of my question has to do with really understanding what they are going through. When I worked at Primerica many years ago, I had a friend named Mel who was also a minister. We were pretty tight. I lost contact with him and others when I went through a layoff there. So, now, as I ponder this question, I don't have a real friend who is black. I work with several blacks and have a great relationship with them, but they are not good friends. In order for me to learn more about their struggles, I need to have a close friendship where we can have personal conversations about race. Until then, I am not qualified to respond to their actions of peaceful protest. This needs to change on my part. |
They are bound by liberalism but protest those who would free them. I can't imagine living on that plantation. They know something is not right and they lash out, but at the wrong target.
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Eddie Robbins |
That is my point exactly. It is easy to make an observation from the outside and we all do it. But, to really know where they're coming from, we need to know them. I hope that y'all watched the North Point service I posted. Andy said that when you aren't close to a situation,my oh don't really understand it. For example, when a friend talks to you about their marriage, it is easy to give advice. You just need to______ and that will fix it. But, we don't know the situation because we are too far away from it. Another example is that we will say just go over there and bomb the enemy. It sounds real easy unless you are there and see all the dead bodies of the babies you just killed. We are too far away from the black man's situation to fully understand it. We say stuff like "stop protesting and get a job." I have seen this on social media.
We don't understand what they are going through. Maybe if we had a real black friend, it would help. I'm saying "we." Me included. |
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| Eddie Robbins wrote: | That is my point exactly. It is easy to make an observation from the outside and we all do it. But, to really know where they're coming from, we need to know them. I hope that y'all watched the North Point service I posted. Andy said that when you aren't close to a situation,my oh don't really understand it. For example, when a friend talks to you about their marriage, it is easy to give advice. You just need to______ and that will fix it. But, we don't know the situation because we are too far away from it. Another example is that we will say just go over there and bomb the enemy. It sounds real easy unless you are there and see all the dead bodies of the babies you just killed. We are too far away from the black man's situation to fully understand it. We say stuff like "stop protesting and get a job." I have seen this on social media.
We don't understand what they are going through. Maybe if we had a real black friend, it would help. I'm saying "we." Me included. |
Do we have to truly "understand them" to point out that their blaming the white man for all their ills is a load of garbage?
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Growing up there were only a handful of black people in my community. The county I grew up in is probably something like 98% white, then the other 2% is largely Hispanic with very few black and Asian people. I had a black friend in high school - Jeremy Beard - but he was also the ONLY black kid in my graduating class of 400-sh students.
When I moved to Oregon it was pretty much the same thing. In fact, at one point 5 of the 200-sh people attending our church were black and we joked (with them) that we had the largest percentage of black people in any church in town! Our Youth Pastor was black, and he and I became like brothers.
However, things are different in places like that. When there is only 1 black kid in 400 students, racism isn't really a thing. Washington has no history of slavery to overcome. I won't say that there was NO racism, because there may have been some that I didn't see, but the tone was certainly different when I moved to Tennessee to attend Lee. |
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| Clint Wills wrote: | Growing up there were only a handful of black people in my community. The county I grew up in is probably something like 98% white, then the other 2% is largely Hispanic with very few black and Asian people. I had a black friend in high school - Jeremy Beard - but he was also the ONLY black kid in my graduating class of 400-sh students.
When I moved to Oregon it was pretty much the same thing. In fact, at one point 5 of the 200-sh people attending our church were black and we joked (with them) that we had the largest percentage of black people in any church in town! Our Youth Pastor was black, and he and I became like brothers.
However, things are different in places like that. When there is only 1 black kid in 400 students, racism isn't really a thing. Washington has no history of slavery to overcome. I won't say that there was NO racism, because there may have been some that I didn't see, but the tone was certainly different when I moved to Tennessee to attend Lee. |
I know a Jeremy Beard here in Florida. I wonder if he is the same one.
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Seeing that I am biracial, I have many black friends. And I can honestly say among those that I talk to in everyday life, the whole blacklivesmatter movement is not a representation of what we/they believe.
Unfortunately there is a huge mistrust between all races. It boils down to the sinful nature we all battle. The politicians and the media do their very best to exploit and manipulate for their own agenda(s). |
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| Re: I challenged myself with this question... |
Nature Boy Florida |
| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | If you are white and all of your family is white, my question is....who is your best black friend? |
Just by splitting your friends into black and white - you are racist.
So I don't have any categorized that way.
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| Da Sheik wrote: | Seeing that I am biracial, I have many black friends. And I can honestly say among those that I talk to in everyday life, the whole blacklivesmatter movement is not a representation of what we/they believe.
Unfortunately there is a huge mistrust between all races. It boils down to the sinful nature we all battle. The politicians and the media do their very best to exploit and manipulate for their own agenda(s). |
Good post.
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Eddie Robbins |
| This thread, though. It just proves the point. |
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| Da Sheik wrote: | Seeing that I am biracial, I have many black friends. And I can honestly say among those that I talk to in everyday life, the whole blacklivesmatter movement is not a representation of what we/they believe.
Unfortunately there is a huge mistrust between all races. It boils down to the sinful nature we all battle. The politicians and the media do their very best to exploit and manipulate for their own agenda(s). |
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