The Importance of Interracial Friendships

Khalil: It's one thing to be friends as kids, but what does it mean to be a friends as adults? Khalil: That's a whole other, a whole other issue. He says that in the Obama era, the so-called post-racial America, we go from colorblindness to post-racialism with these two cohorts of young people. The research tells us what are the necessary conditions for interracial friendships to thrive," he says.