There’s a Divide in Even the Closest Interracial Friendships
Including ours.
By Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
Race plays out differently in every friendship. And not all interracial relationships involve a Black person and a white person, but ours does. Contrary to what pop culture would have us believe, most interracial friendships aren’t actually rooted in deep conversations around racial difference. Not in the beginning, at least. Like all relationships, interracial friendships begin when two people bond over the things they have in common. In a conversation with us, Morris pointed out that in some interracial friendships, there are things both people instinctively know not to speak about. “But there will be some incident, and normally it is a thing that is beyond both parties’ control, that forces you to go there.”
Read the entire article HERE. Copyright © 2020 by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. From the forthcoming book BIG FRIENDSHIP: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman to be published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.