Poll: When did you last socialize with a person of a different race in their home or yours?

[EffieBlack]

79. :-)

This reminds me of something that happened years ago. My new next door neighbors, a white family, were moving in. The wife flew in with their children and the husband would arrive a few days later with a friend in the moving van. The wife and kids seemed lovely and while I was kind and welcoming to them, as is often the case in this situation - based on past experience - I was taking a wait-and-see attitude before becoming too comfortable. I'd been burned before in these situations.

Then hubby showed up. With his best friend, a black man who'd helped him drive the truck and move the furniture in and get them settled before flying back home.

And I looked at this white family who didn't just have a "black friend" but whose black friend drove a truck cross-country and helped them move and was their daughter's godfather and I knew all would be well.

And it was. Even though we now live in different states, 25 years later, we are closer than family ... Just last month that friend and I danced like silly kids at his goddaughter's wedding.

As you know from your own experience, there are friends and then there are friends.