Playing Devil’s Advocate: The Best Way to Lose your Black Friends

Elyse Cizek
11 min readFeb 1, 2021
Photo of Author by Aaron Alpert

I don’t know how to tell you I’m tired of talking about race with you without coming off as stupid. And I don’t want my friendships to feel that way.

I don’t know how to tell you that when you bring up the “marketing value” of Black Lives Matter, when you tell me that it’s not efficient enough to actually create equality, that I don’t have the…

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