United Race?

Listening to my favourite Hip Hop and R&B radio station; I was slightly taken aback when I heard this conversation:

Radio DJ: So do you like the Big Brother contestant Makosi?

Caller: Nah man! She is African!

Given that the caller was also Black herself, it would seem absurd that she would harbour a dislike for someone who is Black too, based on where she was born. Sadly, this is a hidden truth amongst the Afro-Caribbean community, where there seems to be a deep rooted fascism propagated by certain groups.

There is no innocent party as I have been told that I could marry who ever I want as long as they are not Jamaican because all they do is ‘smoke weed and get girls pregnant’. Certain Caribbean’s look down at Africans as they feel that they are’ loud and brash,’ and generally are ‘poor people’

Whilst there are some culture clashes between the two groups, I wonder whether the root to the animosity is much deeper than that. It would seem that some Caribbean’s have not forgiven the present Africans for their ancestor’s greed, who were willing to sell their brothers into slavery. Certain Africans may feel that the Caribbean culture is very different to their own, weary to accept that a group of black people, have a culture much more familiar to their white counterparts.

As much as it disheartening to find that a minority of people like the caller above harbour such ignorant views, the progressive steps taken by Afro-Caribbean organisations promoting social cohesion, will make sure it stays like that. A minority