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Originally Posted by bob saunders
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What does that mean? All African blacks look alike too? It's a whole continent, you know.
Anyway, I taught english to a 15 yr old dominican girl in the states and she told my wife and I (both black) that her father told her she could date whoever she wanted as long as he wasn't black. When we explained to her that she had some african heritage, her automatic response was, "eeewww, their dirty"
I guess the problem with the african perception is in the U.S. in the black community also as one poster mentioned. I am of a darker complexion. When I lived in the south, my complexion was never an issue, but when I moved further north, I was dark-skinned and catch every joke about being "african" as if it's an insult or something.