Ask Code Switch: What About Your Friends?

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We help our listeners understand how race and its evil play cousin, racism, affect our friendships. And we're doing it with help from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money podcast. Be a good friend and listen.

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0:00.0	If this friendship existed in a vacuum, this would be perfect.
0:04.0	She said that I segregate my friends.
0:06.0	And I was like, hmm.
0:08.0	Like, my friend isn't racist, but she's not anti-racist.
0:11.0	Okay, it's fine that you wear hoop earrings and you get your hair braided.
0:13.0	Like, that's not a huge deal, but this is a huge deal.
0:16.0	I don't want her to feel like it's a judgment coming from me necessarily.
0:20.0	I feel like the friendship has deteriorated.
0:27.0	Jane.
0:28.0	What's good to me?
0:29.0	A lot of things had to happen in the universe so that you and I could be friends.
0:33.0	It's similar.
0:34.0	Stars had to align, planets had to shift.
0:37.0	And when I say friends, by the way, I don't just mean co-workers.
0:40.0	I mean friends.
0:42.0	Oh, we're a miracle.
0:43.0	We are a miracle.
0:44.0	We do all the friend things.
0:46.0	We text all the time.
0:47.0	We hang out when we're in the same city.
0:50.0	When we're in the same place.
0:51.0	At least we try to.
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