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Did you have friends growing up that hung out with you because you are black?

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Have you ever had white friends who hung out with you because you are black? As in the only reason they hung out with you, is because you're black. I had a couple friends who weren't really my friends I guess. They were these kids I hung out with a lot during high school, we'd hang out for a while after lunch each day, and I thought they were cool. We'd smoke behind the school, talk about the girls we liked and all that, what typical friends do. As we all got older, we started to hang out less and less with each other. To the point where we completely stopped hanging out. I didn't think anything of it for a while, but then I saw one of them at a party and he completely ignored me, like we never knew each other.

Each time I said what's up to him, he'd walk away and act like I didn't say anything. I thought, maybe he was busy wanting to chat up some of the girls there, but I saw him later hanging out with a group of white dudes, the ones that look like they'd be hunters or were into stuff like Duck Dynasty haha, but it really pissed me off at the time. At that point, I realized this dude was not my friend anymore and I peaced out.
 
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No friends like that as I didn't really fuck with the white people at my school like that. But I certainly had co-workers like that. During the George Floyd uprisings, it was put on full display with a lot of people. Most of them I didn't care, because they had already shown their racism here and there in the form of microaggressions. Others, it pissed me off not because of them but more so because I was mad at myself because I didn't trust my gut about them in the first place.

At the end of the day, it's life. We live and we learn and then we conduct ourselves accordingly in the future.
 

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I had only 2 White friends growing up. We weren't that close to hang out all the time but it was a good relationship where we had respect for one another.

We have all parted ways now and faced our lives. I'd like to hang out with any of them now if they haven't changed from how I knew them.