Ijeoma,

I hada lot more White friends(or Jewish in some of the cases), than Blackand couldn't help but the have them because my environmment , my schooling and unfortunately, when I was a very sensitivelittle Black girl, I turned to them because the Black kids were( the ones that I grew up with) jeering me for being " White". They were more than my business associates. Far as the White people I was raised around, it was a" family affair "and what I mean that is that for example(s) 1) We played with them, were invited over their home for dinner, took us with their kids skating or bike ridingif her got in trouble we would run to each others houses for shelter)2) I used to call me street" Wild Kingdom"( After that show)because everything crazy went on there. There were also interracial dating/marriages "ho-ing" around with them and they were open and aproved. Even ith one of my White friends, there were rumors that her White " father"(?!?!) was raising another man's kid as some said the biological father was Black or Native American. It's 2007 and as of this day, some of the Black neighbors here reminisce about those crazy days. It was rellay something else!I remembered one of my good friends. She was White, but she ( I had mentioned on here before) hated her OWN people, other White people, but to me she was a good friend because she was always there in my time of crisis, she wasn't one of type of White girl that were only good friends to a point...she was really all good. In general, we had deep friendships.

If there is one thing life has taught me is not to let one's classification dictate who is the better person. I have know good people from all races, just as I know may bad ones. Sometimes, I hate it when people say, " We can't/don't have anything in common because of ---------------) I often wondered what do ones background have to with them as a person? Don't get me wrong, my eye is open to those who pretend to like me, but if they are as good as my other friend, then I would be cool with them.