Reply #20: Me too. If my "friends" reveal themselves to be intellectually dishonest racists [View All]

why on earth would I want to call them friends? I don't like people who think like that and certainly wouldn't want to hang out with them. The surprising thing to me is to learn how many people had these views but had them deeply hidden, until the black man in office freaked them out merely by getting elected.

And some of them now just can't even shut up about it. It is like a disease process that has hit overdrive with them and isn't slowing down. The words coming out of their mouths are offensive, stupid and show a determined unyielding focus on making up anything they can to defeat the black man and every democrat out there. Had I known they had these feelings, they wouldn't have been my friends in the first place. It is that important to me. Heck, I won't even do further business with locals who are letting their racsim boil over into conversations now. Since this is small town, I don't shove it in their faces (well, not much) because I leave the arguments and kumbaya "let's work them through it" talk for people with far more patience or are much younger and more enthusiastic about changing people than me.

I just arrange to make certain I never see them, speak to them or do business with them again, if possible. I don't want my world looking like the world that they see from their perspective. I want room in my life for people who think differently than a bunch of mean nasty racists and negativity hounds.