It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Lifecomes Ben Philippes candid memoirinessays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces.In an era in which I have many black friends is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chronicles the experience of being on the receiving end of those fist bumps. He takes us through his immigrant childhood, from wanting nothing more than friends to sit with at lunch, to his awkward teenage years, to college in the age of Obama, and adulthood in the Trump administrationtwo sides of the same American coin.Ben takes his role as your new black friend seriously, providing original and borrowed wisdom on stereotypes, slurs, the whole swimming thing, how much Beyonc is too much Beyonc, Black Girl Magic, the rise of the Karens, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other conversations you might want to have with your new BBFF.Oscillating between the impulse to be "one of the good ones" and the occasional need to excuse himself to the restrooms, stuff his mouth with toilet paper, and scream, Ben navigates his own Blackness as an "Oreo" with too many opinions for his fathers liking, an encyclopedic knowledge of CW teen dramas, and a...

Binding: Paperback;322 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: BG; Weight: 358 g; Dimensions: 135 x 203 x 22

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