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Can My Children Be Friends With White People?
NY Times ^ | November 11, 2017 | Ekow W. Yankah

Posted on 11/12/2017 1:05:34 PM PST by C19fan

My oldest son, wrestling with a 4-year-old’s happy struggles, is trying to clarify how many people can be his best friend. “My best friends are you and Mama and my brother and …” But even a child’s joy is not immune to this ominous political period. This summer’s images of violence in Charlottesville, Va., prompted an array of questions. “Some people hate others because they are different,” I offer, lamely. A childish but distinct panic enters his voice. “But I’m not different.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: left; race
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To: PIF

Whites are perhaps the only race in history to cede power for the sake of idealism, the hope for a better world for everybody. Power almost always has to be wrested. What do whites get for it? Whites get punished it seems.


41 posted on 11/12/2017 2:17:12 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Windflier

I agree with you.

It is very despicable.


42 posted on 11/12/2017 2:20:24 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: C19fan

Not if you’re raising your children to be bigots. Ask your child to imagine white parents asking the same thing about blacks. Do you see now how racist you are? If not, I wouldn’t want my kids to be associated with anyone you know.


43 posted on 11/12/2017 2:20:35 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Crucial

Wait till the children of the illegals from Mexico are running things in thirty years. Homie will be totally screwed.


44 posted on 11/12/2017 2:22:18 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: C19fan

Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.


45 posted on 11/12/2017 2:24:32 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: C19fan
Of course your children of color cannot be friends with white people.All white people are amoral and dangerous.All white people must be killed.
46 posted on 11/12/2017 2:36:10 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: C19fan

At 4 years old, absolutely, you can be friends with white children. But by the time your parents and your black friends get through with you, you’ll grow up hating whitey and white privilege by the time you’re 15 just like everyone else.


47 posted on 11/12/2017 2:37:59 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: C19fan

How ineffably sad that some people are so obsessed with politics that they must abuse their own children in this fashion.

Their precious children are nothing but grist for the mill.


48 posted on 11/12/2017 2:44:24 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

When my father was a child, growing up on the family farm in Kansas, my grandfather forbid him to be friends with the non-German children. He was not even permitted to learn the English language.

Nowadays, we recognize that my late grandfather was an ignorant racist. His attempts to shelter his children failed, and his family escaped the farm as soon as they were able.

How is it that his attitudes persist to our own day?


49 posted on 11/12/2017 2:52:14 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: lee martell

Take a look!

https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/ekow-n-yankah

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50 posted on 11/12/2017 2:58:11 PM PST by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: Windflier
"In the end, they’re going to get a lot of people killed."

Leftists want a revolution, because they honestly believe that communism hasn't actually been tried, yet. They deny anything that refutes their dim little worldview.

Revolutions do NOT have ROE's. The sweet thing is that they are too stupid to realize that when the shooting starts, they will be Number #2, with a Bullet, right after Antifa/BAMN. Once the Great Killing starts, it's going to be impossible to stuff it back in the box.

51 posted on 11/12/2017 3:11:32 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: C19fan

If I were black I would want my children to have only white friends, exclusively. It would break my heart to see them dragged down into the cloaca of black culture based solely on an affinity for their own race.


52 posted on 11/12/2017 3:13:17 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Haiku Guy
Your grandfather was trying to protect his children. You've never heard the anti-dutchy rants of the 19th century, or before that, the "No Irish Need Apply" signs. You've bought the Leftist Guilt Trip.

I used to think racism was an anomaly. Right though college and the Corps, and then I moved into downtown Chicago. After x number of times having my possessions stolen, my car broken into, and being told that there was nothing I could do about it, and every moment, being hated because I am white, I learned to hate back.

This time, racial hatred of whites is encouraged, by those who are using it to tip over the system.

I don't hate race, I hate political stupidity. Leftists will have to die before their will be peace in the world.

53 posted on 11/12/2017 3:25:09 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: vette6387

His name and his face look Nigerian.
If so, this may have affected the way he sees the world.
More likely to be defensive against what he perceives as the dominant race. I have met other foreign born blacks who have the exact opposite view, due to their own individual experiences.


54 posted on 11/12/2017 3:28:00 PM PST by lee martell
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To: C19fan

If your 4 year old is worried about who he can or can’t have as a friend based upon race and/or politics, it’s because you’re filling his head with a lot of garbage that a 4 year old doesn’t need to be dealing with. You’re essentially stealing his childhood.


55 posted on 11/12/2017 3:37:54 PM PST by LIConFem
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To: C19fan

Filthy racist gets big bucks from nyt for hate-filled article that tells Blacks to hate Whites and to blame all their self-inflicted failures on them.


56 posted on 11/12/2017 4:07:13 PM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: ifinnegan

The author lives likely surrounded by liberal whites who will eagerly kowtow to a decent black person to avoid the label of racist, and he’s teaching his kids “stay away from them, they really hate you”.
The author is racist. And he’s teaching his children to hate.
The language reminds me of the Koran. Don’t be friends with the unbeliever, lest you be converted. You can like them and try to convert them, but you cannot really care about them, that’s the road to hell. Just remember, Allah hates them and you should too.


57 posted on 11/12/2017 4:18:10 PM PST by tbw2
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To: HereInTheHeartland

And this is why a black student group was willing to complain about the number of black AFRICAN students at the elite college, first and second generation, supposedly taking the place of African-Americans.
People, the problem is your culture that demonizes traditional values and elevates criminal behavior, sexual immorality and violation of social rules to a virtue.
Get out of the cultural ghetto, and you’ll have everything you want. Sitting back and blaming white people is why you’re poor, surrounded by desperation and crime.


58 posted on 11/12/2017 4:20:20 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Rastus

Mabuti. Ikaw?


59 posted on 11/12/2017 5:00:53 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

60 posted on 11/12/2017 5:21:34 PM PST by Rastus
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