You might have missed my point ,Marshano. To argue that I have a Black friend is, to my mind, too often just claiming to be woke without doing the work. I don’t argue your point at all. But what I would challenge is how much said Black friend influences their thinking? Because all too often I hear or see the argument that having a Black friend in and of itself is the point, NOT whether or not, as you intimate, the friend can indeed be a seed for growth. To me there is signficant gap between the two. One is a shield against the claim of racism, the other is a commitment to growth. Just having a Black friend per se isn’t the point. How that friendship helps us shift, change, evolve and see differently IS the point. That is much more what I was addressing here. Thanks for your comment.