If you are white, how many black friends do you have? If black, how many white friends do you have?
Personally, I am married with two small children, so I don’t really have friends any more :), but back in the day, I had about three or four black friends.
Rob
None, sad to say. There are some people at work that I’m on great terms with, but I don’t really hang out with them on weekends.
This wasn’t always the case. And I really miss my friend Jeff. He was awesome.
Not exactly sure how to answer the question- my wife and I are friends with another couple- she’s white, he’s black- and we’ve socialized with them a number of times. Out to dinner together, over each others’ houses, etc.
I’ve had black friends at different jobs I have held, but while I guess I considered them friends in the office, we didn’t socialize outside of work. But except with rare exception, I don’t do that with any of my co-workers.
My wife and I are “friendly” with the parents of some kids in my kids’ classes who are of various races so it’s hard to pin down “black” or “white”- we’ve been to each others’ houses, but we probably wouldn’t take vacations together or anything. Which has nothing to do with their race, just the mix of our personalities.
I guess I can suffice it so say that 99.5% of my and my wife’s social contacts are white, and by white I mean predominantly caucasian, as far as I can tell. But with the mix of nationalities and races these days, it’s hard to even make that distinction.
I’m Indian/English, but nearly all my friends are white. I have one black coworker who I’m quite close to, and two black fraternity brothers who I see ~once a year. I do have assorted Asian and Hispanic friends.
I’d say it’s a function of environment. IME, I’m more likely to get along with any given black person than any given white person.
Slightly off-topic: I didn’t meet a Jewish person until I was 14.
None, but then again Iceland is about as white a country as you get. The only black persons I see are the ones playing for the different basketball teams and as I don’t know anyone playing…
None, I only know one black guy who even lives any where around here. Unfortunately he is kind of a tool and I stopped hanging out with during fantasy football season. In my life over all I’ve only known 8 black people at all but I’ve never become friends with any of them.
Unfortunately, I live smack dab in the middle of Whiteyland, so I rarely meet nonwhite people, much less get to know them and make friends. I’d love to move somewhere more diverse someday.
Friends huh? How close do we have to be to get points? I’m sort of like the OP.
If joking around at work counts, I have a dozen black friends. I have no work friends outside of work.
If going out drinking together is the yardsitck, umm, no black friends currently. Maybe 2 white friends on very rare occasions.
If visiting other peoples houses is the measure … I’d say four white friends, one 1st generation Chinese and one guy that is probably like half American indian and half white but that is just a guess.
My kids have friends of all different ethnicities which isn’t odd in the Washington DC area; it’s like a UN meeting. For some odd reason both boys were best friends with Ethiopian kids (years apart) one of whom still hangs out at my house a lot. I would say I am a “friend” of his dad in that we did neighborly type stuff together before he moved away. His Mom is a screeching harpy that I avoid at all times - could have something to do with the dad splitting.
I have no friends black or white.
I’ll be your friend.
Would you like a hug?
This is a bit black and white. I’m not even making a pun – How many friends do people have, really? Do only close friends count? Facebook friends? Coworkers? And what counts as ‘black’ or ‘white’? Are Italians white? Are Moroccans black? Where do people of mixed ‘race’ fit in (virtually all of my friends)?
Maybe I’m over-thinking things.
No black friends. Had a few in college but that was many years ago.
I’m a white guy who shares an office with a black gal and a black guy, but we don’t see each other outside of work much, if at all. I know maybe another two dozen black folks, coworkers or folks from my church mostly, with all of whom I’m cordial but none of whom I’d call my best buds.
I have two black friends with whom I’m much closer, but one is moving to Japan soon and the other works very hard and is extremely busy, so I hardly see either anymore. Bums me out. They were godparents to two of my sons.
Darn you beat me too it! 
Group hug, then. 
Uh, I have an Asian friend. Does that count?
I’m white and I sort of have one black friend. She’s my friend’s fiance, and we all used to work together, but she left for another job a couple years ago, and now I only see her a few times a year so I’m hesitant to call her a friend when, really, she’s more of an acquaintance. I still like her a lot, though.
Three of my very best friends are Japanese, Indian, and latino, though. Does that count?
[del]I’m neither, but [/del]I have three black friends[del], three Latino ones, one Asian one, one Middle-Eastern one, two halfbreeds,[/del] and something like 70 white friends at last count.
The OP lives in such a black and white world 
I live in a pretty homogenously ethnic enviroment. Principal exceptions: my sister’s caretakers.
I’ll only include people I actually talk to:
(former) Co-Workers: 3 black, 2 white, one unknown latina/hispanic origin. We all work well together. Friendly enough, but not friends.
Buds I drink with: 2 white (hubby and wife). He’s from ID and she’s from PA. Both of them are white as rice.
Another H/W combo of Puerto Rican and Polish. (Yeah, don’t get me started. *Those *jokes are easy!)
Add another H/W team of Venezualan (sp?) and latina, both who grew up white as rice in the MD suburbs. She graduated college from somewhere in WV (so it doesn’t really count, eh? )
Add another H/W team of white as a sheet Irish-American and Korean-American. (They’re both something like 3rd or 4th generation, I don’t know. But they’ve been in this country all their lives, so I’ll call them off-white.)
My best friend, coming in at 73 years and two months old, is black. We hang with his son from a former marriage with a caucasian lady. His son is my age. But he looks more hispanic (like me) rather than black/white mix (what’s the correct term for that nowadays? 
) So much that whenever we go out people often say things like “your brother said you’d pay for this*” or “your brother did…” When we’re together, we both just look at each other and say, “Of, F**k NO! We’re not related!” But when we can sneak a bad joke in, neither one of us is above it. It’s kind of a “screw you for what you did to me last time” game.
Two other black friends I play cards and watch games with. And other things. One of these friends is just a good larf to be with. The other one is like a brother, no pun intended. He is such a great guy that we’ve spent time in the pokey together. He just recently passed the medical screening so that he can donate a kidney to his mother, which should greatly increase her chances of survival. He’s a good man.
One Chinese woman hangs with us sometimes. She’s very smart, but she’s quite the flake. Ah, the curse of intelligence. But she’s only second generation.
Then there’s at least 3 rednecks. And the assorted cousins and good ol’ boys. All country boys from different sides of MD, VA, beneath rocks, from the back woods and what not. Good enough folk. Strong back weak mind types. They’ll help you move, but I wouldn’t give them anything more complicated than toilet paper. And even *that’s *dicey.
I guess we’re a pretty heterogenous group.
SO:
Final score:
Black: 6.32
White: 9.33
Other: 7.11
*Yeah, we’re both jerks like that. It started out about 10 years ago as a big joke, but now it’s become something of a bitter point. We’re friendly, but we’re not friends.