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Recently, the writer Devin Friedman realized that he had only two African-American friends. So in the spirit of participatory journalism, he began looking for more on Craigslist. While Friedman writes in the resulting GQ story that “this project started to feel like the worst kind of tokenism,” he also made a genuine effort to get to know people outside his usual social circle. By experiment’s end, using Craigslist flyers and the more old-fashioned friends-of-friends approach, he’d found “ten guys with whom I’d gladly eat dinner once a month and talk about their kids (which is what it means to be friends with someone at age 36).” Say this: it’s unique.