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To: John Vosilla who wrote (113558)	5/14/2012 7:00:15 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Three hundred years of discrimination and racism would lead to considerable dysfunction in any community I'm sorry but I see recent waves of immigrants from the Carribean who have more hurdles to success in Florida than any other group given the color of their skin, lack of familiarity with American culture, being frowned upon by native blacks and Creole not exactly the dominant language in business like English or Spanish.. They seem to keep out of trouble, work hard and have strong family values much more so than native blacks. John, its easy to say that blacks are inferior or less responsible or less motivated or less industrious. The fact is most Carribeans arrived after 1968 when minorities finally became legal in most parts of this country. They didn't suffer through 200 years of slavery and then another 150 years of heavy discrimination. I am sure the incidence of drug and alcohol addiction was much less. But despite all that discrimination, there are any number of outstanding black member of this culture. And since overt discrimination was made illegal, blacks have made huge strides even though its only been 40 years. No one benefits when people become judgemental.....IMO.