Keep Your Friends Closer

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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As part of our Ask Code Switch series, we're tackling your toughest questions about race and friendship. We help our listeners understand how race and and its evil play cousin, racism, affect how we make friends, keep friends, and deal with friend breakups. And we're doing it with help from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money podcast. Be a pal 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	I'm Shireen Madisoul Maraji.
0:29.0	I mean, Demby, and this is Code Switch.
0:32.0	From NPR.
0:33.0	This week's episode is from our regular series, Ask Code Switch,
0:37.0	where we try with experts to help our audience better navigate the various ways race and racism play out in our personal lives.
0:47.0	Yeah, I think like Dear Abby, but with like a whole lot more to talk about historical context and structural forces.
0:53.0	And this week, our theme is Race and Friendship.
0:57.0	And Jean?
0:58.0	What's good, Shireen?
0:59.0	A lot of things had to happen in the universe so that you and I could be friends here in the United States of America.
1:07.0	Stars had to align.
1:09.0	All kinds of stuff needed to happen.
1:12.0	And when I say friends, I mean actual friends, not just coworkers.
1:16.0	We're friends. We talk. We text. We hang out.
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