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with their brothers from the continent. They had the sight of Africans. Africans who had come to
America in the late 1940s and early 1950s were avoided like the plague. Nobody wanted to have
anything to do with them except Africans from, or whose parents were from, the Caribbean.
Continental Africans, on the other hand, had been brainwashed and taught that Africans-Americans
were not intelligent, were lazy, depended mostly on governmental handouts – mediciad and medicare;
made babies only to turn around and abandon their wives and children, and were fond of killing one
another, and into drugs. When Africans came here, they also avoided Blacks like plague. They would
rather socialize with Caucasians. Even in the schools that they attended, they avoided the few Blacks
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