Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends

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Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends
By Christopher Ingraham August 25

"All my black friends have a bunch of white friends. And all my white friends have one black friend."

That's the memorable punchline of a Chris Rock bit from 2009 on interracial friendships. And according to some recent number-crunching by Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, there's a good deal of truth to that statement.

Let's consider the average American white American and the average American black American, and let's say, for simplicity's sake, that each of them have 100 friends. If you were to break down their respective friend networks by race, they would look something like this.



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Going back to Chris Rock's point, the average black person's friend network is 8 percent white, but the average white person's network is only 1 percent black. To put it another way: Blacks have ten times as many black friends as white friends. But white Americans have an astonishing 91 times as many white friends as black friends.

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In fact, PRRI's data show that a full 75 percent of whites have "entirely white social networks without any minority presence." The same holds true for slightly less than two thirds of black Americans.

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[elleng]

1. Little surprise, really,

as we've 'self-segregated' for many years, maybe aggravated after attempts to comply with Brown v. Board of Education.

[BillZBubb]

2. Your point is that "Brown" made segregation worse?

I hope you aren't serious.

[elleng]

3. Have you ever heard of 'white flight?'

I hope YOU aren't seriously suggesting that this country accepted "Brown" easily, and that public schools throughout the country are now well integrated.

[BillZBubb]

4. Before Brown, schools were almost totally segregated.

Brown made the situation better in many ways. Of course "white flight" has reduced the benefits of Brown, but the fact remains it has been a big plus from the bad old days.