Social occasions, and the culture of small groups more generally, are sites of transformation, building, and line crossing and are an under-examined site of the complex choreography, collective energy, and unexpected bursts of change that animate everyday life. However, absent from our understanding of small groups and social occasions are the antiblack sentiments, meanings, and cultural cues that create collective effervescence within these settings. Small occasions are useful cases to examine how antiblackness is a taken-for-granted element of the makeup of civil society and social relations. This chapter draws its conclusions from qualitative data gathered from an all-white, all-male small group within a small religious organization in the Midwestern United States. I discuss two findings: (1) how the presence of black flesh is a breach that requires correction, even if it means engaging in untasteful behavior; and (2) how sentiments of belongingness that connect interaction ritual chains among small groups require the image of an unknown, black Other. In this space outside of “real” life, the observations within this social occasion reveal that, in fact, small groups are a microcosm of not only the formal organization, but society itself. Implications for meso-level dynamics, social inequality, and racism are considered.