Unfortunatelly, I ain't got many non-white friends 'cause 90 % of the population here is white.
BUT my best friends are African: Jibril (my Somalian roommate) and Owen (Zimbabwe).

Despite the 93% caucasian population here in Britain, I don't have a single caucasian friend.

The ones I've had in the past have been so slack and disgusting (boozing, sleeping around, bragging about nasty hygiene habits and the males having open conversations about their love for self love!!!) That after my learning about my culture more and after I stopped allowing these bad habits around me "because that's just how they behave and I need to be accepting", I had less and less in common with them and told them all to bounce.

The only one I did actually believe was a good person turned out to be a back stabbing mother front and so as I am sure you can guess he's no longer about either.

I have a strong group of African friends around me now which despite the lack of cultural mixture amongst my personal friends hasn't stopped me from understanding other people's history and culture and enjoying them.

I guess it goes to show that multiculturalism is as unnecessary as all of the other rainbow theories for social cohesion in the past. Oh, and your friends are a reflection of yourself and not of a populous.

Any one who says, ' i have nothing in common' with a white person really isnt deep enough i mean first all a white person is a person so thats one thing in common right? its like saying a man and a woman dont have anything in common.. it just doesnt make sense to me....

I guess it depends on what kind of people you meet and what people you've met and been 'exposed' to. Ive been bought up round loads of different races and because of my upbringing i release colour is NOT important when it comes to friendship. Its personality. Obivously on a level like male/female relationships colour would be important but only because of what other people think ( if it was a genuine relationship of course ).

And i know this might seem stupid but i release i dont need to have loads of things in common with someone to connect with them- like ive had this maltese friend for about five years and on the surface we wouldnt appear to be 'good' friends .... but anyway that might just be me, i have a whole range of friends black, white, ghetto, nerdy, goth (yes goth)

i guess when you grow up and go through life you will be make all types of friends. I made asian friends in uni, and my best friend was a turkish white girl in school, i also used to hang with a next white chick, and was briefly close to a white arab boy in uni. We all found things in common, the only thing that gets to me is when blk peeople let non blacks into our world- social group, and accept them they are too quick to act up, or try and put their feet up on the sofa. try and tell you about yourself like THEY KNOW ANYTHING! or matbe they try too hard to be accepted and think that using the N word or being over the top with every single thing they can fast track this somehow, or prove something??!!
but now most of my friends are all black, though i have people of all races i am cool wit.
theres nothing wrong with having a mix of friends, As blacks its not about being hateful like ignorant racists who hate others purely based on their ethnicity.

My childhood friend of 17 years is white. We were childhood friends since the age of 6 where we met in our neighborhood (which was mostly white). She grew up in a bad situation and was on her own from the age of 14, while I grew up in a solid, loving family which adopted her on some level. She moved constantly because of instability in her life but always kept in touch with me and made it a point to keep me in her life.
We don't have too much in common in terms of music, clothing, activities etc. but she knows more about me and would do more for me than anyone (besides my family) and we shared most of our life and memories together. We share big things though such as world views and religious/spiritual outlook.
I would call her my oldest closest friend, and my best friend who's mixed would be the friend that I share things in common with and speak more with on a daily basis.

I never talk to her (the white friend) about race. I can't feel comfortable sharing that with her and I don't think she would understand, but I share that with my mixed friend and because of that I have a different kind of closeness with him that I won't ever have with her.

I had various white friends through my life time. However, I can't say I have been close to any of them. Most of my friends are from a Jamaican or West Indian background. Generally, I am suspicious of Asian people.

This thread actually makes you think about the racial situation in the UK deeply. I went to a primary school which was mostly white and a high school about 70% white. Lived in an area of mostly asians and thinking hard I can't remember ever having a real white friend.

I mean yeah there are people I nod to and say hello, people I work with and catch jokes while there, people who found me on facebook and are all of a sudden "friends" lol but not really. Not in my circle. Not white friends whose phone numbers I have and who I check for like that.

Even those of my friends who went wayward and found love on the other side, I see their white partners as mere extensions of them as opposed to being the fully fleged intergrated part of a wider circle my friends black girlfriends/wives are. I can go to certain mans house and his girl will be there and I can eat her food and play with their kids and chill and just relax. I don't even visit my friends with white girls. Not because I dissapprove, but I feel uncomfortable and not as "at home". yagetme

I have just a few close brothers and a wider circle of possibly 100 friends/spars who I can jam with and go to weddings, call on the phone etc. None of them white though.

That isn't through conscious design, nothing like "I hate those folks" came into that... it just happens that way. It might be changing with the younger generation though. When I was coming up whites had their culture and their scene and we had ours. There was an actual cultural divide to cross. The white folk I went to school with were proper cockney and all of that. Now everybody and their mama is "urban". They all speak the same, listen to the same ish, go to the same places and hang out together. It's different I guess.

I think you both displayed poor social skills. Surely you had common ground in that you both knew your friend. Numerous conversations could be about him.

I think it comes down to, 'do you want white friends' obivously if your not willing to even accept a white person as 'being on your level' then you will never make real friends with them. Its not really a bad thing actually - first i was thinking all these people who are saying they dont like making deeper connections with people of a different race are stupid, but then again its not like theres a shortage of afican/carribean people so go for it.
But really guys from experiance i dont think colour/race has anything to do with how you connect with someone- it may limit your disscussions on being 'black' but thats about it!

I'm sorry, mi$$. There is nothing wrong for people to want to make friends within only their own race.

funny thing is I've had more fights with humans than i have made friends with. i don't know why that is, I'm a lovely guy, tall-dark-handsome.

puzzled really.

No. The closest I got to white friends was playing football at school them. After that, everyone went their own way. I work with white people but they are not my friends.

No. Everybody's on this whole "everyone is equal" tip when it comes to friends, but I don't buy it. I talk to white people, I SEE white people, I laugh and put up my best yassa massa act and whatever, but I've never gotten close. Am I racist? eh. White folks are just a whole different flavor to me, and I don't like bad tastes in my mouth.

Now sure there are a few white folks I keep in my corner, and they're nice people n all, I dunno. I just get different vibes from some of them..I don't get that homeboy feel. Whatever...like I said, whole different aftertaste.