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who were in the school and Blacks on their part also avoided the Africans because of their perception of
a Tarzan with his monkey. Both groups despised and hated one another. They felt inferior and ashamed
of one another.
They despised their Blackness. They judged their beauty or ugliness by the standard of a Caucasian.
When a Black man becomes successful, he shacks up with a Caucasian woman. African-Americans
accused Africans of superior bearings, while Africans accused African-Americans of exclusionary
tendencies, except when it suited them to be Africans.
The brainwashing of the African was so intense that we even didn’t know when we were taught to
despise our own people. I remember in grade school being taught to sing a song about the Ashanti
people of Ghana, which went like this:
Good morning, Mr. Johnson
Good morning to you, sir
I’ve just come to ask you
About the Ashanti people
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