<p>I found this thread interesting. </p>
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<p>You forgot pirates. :)</p>
<p>I find that many members of the African/Caribbean diaspora hold excessively negative views of Americans of African extraction that do nothing but perpetuate the societal and self-suppression of the latter group. It’s disgusting and shameful.</p>
<p>I frequently see self-identified Somalis drinking booze at midday in front of various storefronts during my lunch break. Perhaps your father needs to make a visit to 125th Street and Lenox Ave. in Harlem at the height of summer; his views would be contradicted then.</p>
<p>And honestly, I believe the Somali people to be a branch of the Bantu migration that adopted - to a significant extent - the beliefs and practices of the Arabian migrants - or marauders, whichever term you prefer - that arrived under successive incursions. While they are of mixed ancestry, they have maintained, and to a significant extent, the features of descendants of Bantu migrants more so than the Arabs.</p>
<p>But I’m glad to see you’ve recognized what’s wrong with that view, eastafrobeauty.</p>