New York Times Writer: I’m Telling My Black Children They Cannot Be Friends With White People

This makes me want to vomit.

Meaningful friendship is not just a feeling. It is not simply being able to share a beer. Real friendship is impossible without the ability to trust others, without knowing that your well-being is important to them. The desire to create, maintain or wield power over others destroys the possibility of friendship. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous dream of black and white children holding hands was a dream precisely because he realized that in Alabama, conditions of dominance made real friendship between white and black people impossible.

History has provided little reason for people of color to trust white people in this way, and these recent months have put in the starkest relief the contempt with which the country measures the value of racial minorities. America is transfixed on the opioid epidemic among white Americans (who often get hooked after being overprescribed painkillers — while studies show that doctors underprescribe pain medication for African-Americans). But when black lives were struck by addiction, we cordoned off minority communities with the police and threw away an entire generation of black and Hispanic men.

Likewise, despite centuries of exclusion and robust evidence of continuing racism, minority underemployment is often couched in the language of bad choices and personal responsibility. When systemic joblessness strikes swaths of white America, we get an entire presidential campaign centered on globalization’s impact on the white working class. Even the nerve of some rich or visible African-Americans to protest that America, in its laws and in its police, has rarely been just to all has been met with the howls of a president who cannot tolerate that the lucky and the uppity do not stay in their place.

Here’s the kicker.  She wrote, “Against our gauzy national hopes, I will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible.”

I would never, ever, never tell my children that they can’t or shouldn’t be friends with someone who looks different than them.  This mother is going to train her children to be generational racists.

She says she’s sad about it… But she’s not really sad, she’s the problem. 

People like this are actually fomenting racial division and hatred, and the Leftist New York Times is giving her a platform.

Pray.  For her and her boys. For all of us.

Hat Tip: New York Times

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