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Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 1701 of our national conversation about conversations about race.

Will you be my black friend?

I'm Anna Holmes, here with some of my best friends are black author, Tanner Colby. Hey,

Tanner. Hey, Anna. And also joining us, reporter and documentary filmmaker, Fazilat Aslam. Hi, Fazilat.

Hi. Glad you're back on the show. I'm happy to be back. I'm just going to call you FAS.

That's great. As you said before we started taping. Okay. On our last episode, we discussed what it's like to be considered someone's black friend,

willingly or unwillingly, especially when people want to discuss things related to race.

Listeners of the show had a lot to say about this particular episode and here, excuse me,

to help us sift through many of our audience's reactions is our loyal and lovely producer, A.C. Valdez.

Hi, Al. Hi, A.C.

Hi. What did I do to earn the lovely part? That's really sweet. I was just, well, you're not,

you're not unlovely. I wanted some alliteration. I wanted some alliteration. Loyal

and lovely. It felt like a nice match. I think some alliteration. Loyal and lovely.

It felt like a nice match.

I think you're lovely, A.C.

Thanks, Tanner.

You too.

So we had so many responses to this last episode that I feel really bad leaving any out.

So what I'm going to do right now is go with a grab bag of bits and pieces from a bunch of emails.

I apologize that we can't get to everybody.

This was a hell of an episode and a hell of a lot of a lot of responses.

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