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* Machiste who, despite being king of his own land, spends most of his time as the loyal companion to Travis Morgan in ''[[The Warlord]]''.
* [[Captain America (comics)]] had the black hero, [[The Falcon]]. They were so tight in the 1970s that Cap's series was retitled as ''Captain America and the Falcon'' for years.
** As revealed by artist/writer [[John Byrne]] on his message board: It was the habit in the [Marvel] Office to refer to CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON as [https://web.archive.org/web/20110712123403/http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/showthread.php?34790-John-Byrne-Describes-Marvel-s-Casual-Racism-In-The-Seventies Captain America and the Fowl Coon].
** When Cap quit being Cap and a new one was appointed by the US government, the replacement John Walker, in that brief interlude before he started getting evil, also had a black best friend, Lemar Hoskins, who was given the costume of and codename of Bucky, Original Cap's [[World War Two]] sidekick. The comics people rapidly realized that there were [[Unfortunate Implications]], and in an unusual move [[Author's Saving Throw|addressed these within the comic]], as the Lemar explained to Walker that 'Bucky' was an unfortunate slang term for black men, and there was something demeaning about a grown man being named after a dead white teenager, so he'd like to pick a new codename. Walker agreed and Lemar became Battlestar.
* In the ''Mysti'' comic books, Mysti has a black best friend named Peaseblossom (though for the first few volumes, she is a white best friend).
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Alice in ''[[Loserz]]'' is a Black Girlfriend. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213163208/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/277 this] strip.
* [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|intoducing, the new friend................]] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=007.jpg GEROMY]
* Jivin in ''[[Asperchu]]''.
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* A parody website called [http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/ Black People Love Us]. It goes on about how "well-liked [they are] by Black people," and hangin' out with their black friends.
* Devin Freidman wrote an article called "Will You Be My Black Friend?" on how he realized at a cocktail party that most of his friends were white. He tried to remedy this by putting an ad for himself on Craigslist for a black friend. Oprah's producing a movie with Chris Rock based on it.
* The recent [https://web.archive.org/web/20140325102202/http://www.racialicious.com/2009/10/16/im-not-a-racist-says-pastor-who-refuses-to-marry-interracial-couples/ case] of a justice of the peace in Louisiana who refuses to perform interracial marriages (out of concern, he says, that [[Barack Obama|mixed-race children have no real place in society]]). His justification has to be read to be believed:
{{quote|"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, '''they use my bathroom'''. I treat them just like everyone else."}}
* Chris Rock makes fun of this in one of his standups when he says "All my black friends have a bunch of white friends, and all my white friends have one black friend!"
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