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	<title>Comments on: Laying-Off my White Friends</title>
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	<description>&#34;Never Disrespect the Queendom!&#34;</description>
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		<title>By: grandpa dinosaur</title>
		<link>http://pddp.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/laying-off-my-white-friends/#comment-239</link>
		<dc:creator>grandpa dinosaur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, Carolyn J. and Loopzilla. I&#039;ll try to mash both of your advice into one somehow. I&#039;m not going to stop being friends with White people, but I&#039;ll stop being friends with White people who belittle me and my feelings.

I&#039;ll be back to writing about more meaty articles soon, I&#039;m in the middles of writing/drawing/printing five comic books—But I&#039;ll find the time in between. Somehow. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Carolyn J. and Loopzilla. I&#8217;ll try to mash both of your advice into one somehow. I&#8217;m not going to stop being friends with White people, but I&#8217;ll stop being friends with White people who belittle me and my feelings.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be back to writing about more meaty articles soon, I&#8217;m in the middles of writing/drawing/printing five comic books—But I&#8217;ll find the time in between. Somehow.</p>
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		<title>By: Loopzilla</title>
		<link>http://pddp.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/laying-off-my-white-friends/#comment-234</link>
		<dc:creator>Loopzilla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recommend that you ditch your lame friends. I don&#039;t assume that all of your white friends are lame, but to me, a lame friend would do the following: devalue your racial heritage and life experience, and thereby, your worth as a human being. 

Why associate with someone who puts themselves above you? Why put yourself in a position where you need to censor yourself and pretend not to care about truly offensive and demeaning attitudes and actions? I don&#039;t mean to imply that you should never be friends with a white person under any circumstances. Instead, be friends with white people who have examined themselves. Be friends with white people who recognize that they benefit from unfair privileges, who recognize the systematic dehumanization of people of color, and who fight against that system through speech and actions. I know that white people like that exist, SOMEWHERE. I&#039;ve run into them on the internet frequently, but in real life, they&#039;re more scarce.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recommend that you ditch your lame friends. I don&#8217;t assume that all of your white friends are lame, but to me, a lame friend would do the following: devalue your racial heritage and life experience, and thereby, your worth as a human being. </p>
<p>Why associate with someone who puts themselves above you? Why put yourself in a position where you need to censor yourself and pretend not to care about truly offensive and demeaning attitudes and actions? I don&#8217;t mean to imply that you should never be friends with a white person under any circumstances. Instead, be friends with white people who have examined themselves. Be friends with white people who recognize that they benefit from unfair privileges, who recognize the systematic dehumanization of people of color, and who fight against that system through speech and actions. I know that white people like that exist, SOMEWHERE. I&#8217;ve run into them on the internet frequently, but in real life, they&#8217;re more scarce.</p>
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		<title>By: Carolyn J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carolyn J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are far too close to this situation to see your way out of it.  If you lead your life without these people for six months, then contact them again, the ones who are your friends will welcome you with open arms.  That is, if you choose to contact them again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are far too close to this situation to see your way out of it.  If you lead your life without these people for six months, then contact them again, the ones who are your friends will welcome you with open arms.  That is, if you choose to contact them again.</p>
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