Cenk Uygur
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"Some Of My Best Friends Are Black” Might Actually Work
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February 21, 2016
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6:42Now PlayingEvery once and awhile you come across who tries to claim that they’re not racist by saying, “some of my best friends are black”. It turns out that a study looked into that to see if individuals perceived someone to be less racists if they have a group of friends who are minorities. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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The idea that having minority friendships inoculates a person against being racist is so silly that it's become a cliche. Just saying "some of my best friends are..." can elicit eye rolls before the sentence is even finished.
But that doesn't mean it won't work.
A new study of more than 450 Americans finds that the mere mention of minority friends can reduce how racist a person seems to be toward that minority group. But, edgy joke-teller beware: it only helps so much.
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