# How many black or white friends do you have?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-black-or-white-friends-do-you-have/492263>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 7, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-black-or-white-friends-do-you-have/492263 "2009-04-07T16:15:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-black-or-white-friends-do-you-have/492263/61 "2009-04-12T22:50:58Z")

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> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> I didn’t mean to condescend, so I have no idea what’s up with that. The pissiness though, probably comes from that fucking ‘confused’ smiley, which I hate with a passion. Don’t get me wrong; I have seen it executed with the kind of comedic timing that leaves me in giggles, but when a poster uses it to show how they just can’t fathom someone’s different viewpoint, I get annoyed enough to probably over-react. Sorry.

Lol, I actually included it to emphasise that I was just confused and would like clarification (because smileys are better than words) rather it being a case of me just passing random judgement. So there you go.

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> Suffice it to say, I take the word ‘friend’ seriously. I have moved an entire family of five into my two bedroom apartment, for over five months, completely stressing out my poor husband in the name of friendship. I wouldn’t do that for my aforementioned co-worker, and I know she wouldn’t do it for me.

Fair enough.

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