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Depends on where you live. When my mother first came to this country, she was afraid of all American men. She went out with one black American who as she said to me, 'wanted to take to his pad'. My mother not knowing what 'pad' meant jumped out of the car and the NYPD dropped her home. She didn't date again till she started working for my dad. It is a culture clash. Many Caribes have more in common with man white people than black. A lot of it is due to ignorance and also "jealousy". That is not all cases of course, but it's the majority. If you search FR there was a thread on a study of why West Indian and African blacks score higher on 'biased tests' and seem to fare 'better' than many black Americans. Personally speaking, I think black Americans way more open minded than yesterday. That's another thread altogether I suppose.

"If you search FR there was a thread on a study of why West Indian and African blacks score higher on 'biased tests' and seem to fare 'better' than many black Americans."

I noticed the same degree of social separation between black Americans and those from Africa and the West Indies while I was at New Jersey Institute of Technoloogy (in the Central Ward of Newark) 1975-1979. The latter just could not make sense of the former "culture", and most did not buy into it. Most hung on to a lot of "British Empirisms."