Even amongst the Arabs they discriminate amongst each other by how much money they have. The rich only associate with the rich and the ladder goes down by your $$$ dollar worth.

Because of the British Colonialism and the divide and rule colonial style we have developed a mentality of abandoning our cultures , civilizations , names  and methods of governing (chieftaincy) to accommodate the "better" European standards imposed on us and our forefathers.. Look at some villages that the man made colonial boundaries cuts right in the middle of them. I can go on and on with numerous examples of the evils of of colonial mentality  that we are not even conscious of.  We were high jacked emotionally into looking down on our selves- one of the reasons many of our sister bleach their skins is because our very own brothers prefer "musso koi sa sa boro" and they want to attract the brothers so naturally they get "hessal"

Joe ,  here is a typical example we also have in the Gambia in common. read on;

I travel to the middle East a lot and many times Arab companies have to carry  a white person with them because the same Arabs over there who are owners of the projects etc  do not think that their fellow Arabs are good engineers as the White counterparts .

In the Gambia if the Contractor is a Tubab Company they are deemed good and win the bid but if they are local or a fellow Gambian they are not good enough to win the bid so these qualified Gambians have to hire an unqualified expatriate just to get a contract from their own Gambian government.

Does that sound familiar?

The list is soooo long  but  I hope you get my point.

Best regards

Habib 

 

>From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Excerpt from Islam's Black Slaves:The other Black Diaspora >Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:01:13 +0000 > >Brother Habib, thanks for your comments. Like yourself, Yus and >others, I >would not and did not say that Arabs are devils. What I commented >on was >the treatment of Africans by the Crusaders and the Almoravids. Same >as I >would with the Afrikaner's treatment of Africans during Apartheid, >Indians >with the "Untouchables", White Australians of the Yarakala people >(Africans), White America's treatment of African-Americans in this >country, >and Jammeh and others' treatment of their fellow Africans. I hope >you do >not believe that by us discussing what was done to Africans, >including you, >that we are preaching hate. Not at all. Moreover, my comments were >more >directed to the issue of Bilal and how he should receive equal >treatment >like all other followers of the Prophet in the interest of equality. > If he >is treated any less, then we need to see it for what it is. The >world is >where it is today because of what happened yesterday, and I am >merely >revisiting the history of our experience as a people. Thanks for >reasoning >with me. > >Chi Jaama > >Joe Sambou > > >>From: Habib Ghanim <[log in to unmask]> >>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list >><[log in to unmask]> >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: Re: Excerpt from Islam's Black Slaves:The other Black >>Diaspora >>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:24:02 +0000 >> > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: >http://mobile.msn.com > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the >Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~