A Word: Cancelling the “Black Friend” Excuse

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Your barista, your golf buddy, your ex-college roommate...just because you are friendly with a Black person doesn’t mean you’re friends. And even if you are, you can still be a racist. Scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad explores the “Black buddy” myth of racial healing this through his podcast “Some of My Best Friends Are…”, which he co-hosts with his white best friend, Ben Austen. On today’s episode of A Word, Muhammad joins Jason Johnson to talk about interracial friendships, and evolving views about how they reflect racial progress in America. Guest: Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a historian, author, and the co-host of “Some of My Best Friends Are…,” a new podcast on the Pushkin network. Podcast production by Ahyiana Angel and Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:37.8	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:39.8	Lots of white people believe interracial relationships
0:42.7	from buddy cops to baseball teammates to romances can fix racism.
0:48.4	But in real life, conversations about race
0:50.5	that include some of my best friends are,
0:53.5	now scholar Khalil Jabram Muhammad is tackling those cliches head on.
0:57.8	We can't use our relationship as evidence
1:01.7	that racism is no longer a problem.
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