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Scenario

How to address unspoken racial dynamics in long-term friendships

My oldest friend and I have been through everything together but we've never talked about the fact that I'm white and they're Black and how that shapes things between us, and I don't know if bringing it up now would help or hurt.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complexity of introducing conversations about identity and power into relationships that have operated without explicit acknowledgment of these forces, risking both connection and avoidance.

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